Lytherions

Lytherions are post-humans with full-body tattoos, dark eyes and dark tongues that have the natural ability to attract or manifest all kinds of strangeness. Created from a complex and dangerous ritual, lytherions were once ordinary humans. While the process of tattooing using toxins is certainly dangerous, it is never done on an unwilling subject, and only among the people the lytherions trust.
== Appearance ==
Appearance varies as much as humans do, although the tattoos are certainly very noticeable. While the patterns or motifs may be seen on multiple individuals, each person's overall design is unique to them. A person with face-blindness would be able to identify a lytherion by their patterns! Someone familiar with Hidden Lore (Lytherion) (or using Occultism-4) may "read" a lytherion's patterns to determine the artist who made them, when, and where the tattoos were made.
Furthermore, the tattoos slightly change color over time, something long-time friends of lytherions will eventually notice.
== Biological Quirks ==
=== Poison Requirement ===
Lytherions are immune to poisons—in fact, they need some amount of poison just to live (think of it like a requirement for digestion). Due to this, most lytherions have exceptional knowledge on poisons. Modern-day lytherions are likely to simply stock up on rat poison as a low-key way to avoid suspicion—perhaps they run a whole vermin extermination business as a cover, but their weirdness magnetism (see below) keeps them running into psychic rats, invisible gremlins, or the strange goings-on of Samuel Luke Station...
=== Others ===
Lytherions live for a remarkable amount of time, about 500 to 700 years.
Not that the average person needs this knowledge, but lytherion flesh and blood is not poisonous, and is safe to eat for cannibals, werewolves and the like.
== Weirdness Magnetism ==
Things happening around a lytherion are just a little more interesting, and the longer a lytherion is in the area (and the more of them there are), the stronger the effect is. A small band of lytherion folks might be consistently surrounded by strange coincidences, supernatural visits or unearthly encounters. Perhaps a whole sailing ship of lytherions could find itself summoning its own banestorm!
Lytherions may even end up being accidental "weirdness scouts", as they tend to run into all kinds of other titular "creatures of the night".
== References ==
* Creatures of the Night, Vol 1, p.9-11
Category:Monsters