Ghoul

== Attributes ==
 STR: 40 INT: 45
 
 AGL: 65 WLP: 45
 
 DEX: 75 FTH: 65
 
 REF: 85 FOC: 80
 
 FOR: 80 PSY: 20
 
 PER: 10 LCK: 10
 
 FEAR: 80
== Abilities ==
*Bite Attack (66, Fair Mauling damage)
*Bloodhound (effortless)
*Claw Attack (75, Fair Sharp damage)
*Glare (Power) (50)
*Howl (65)
*Mighty Leap (effortless, 50 feet)
*Phasing (effortless)
*Shadowform (effortless)
*Special Sense (effortless: Death or blood)
*Vampiric Bite (60)
== Characteristics ==
*Aura of Dread (200 feet of the creature)
*Bloodsight
*Chill
*Dark Vision
*Dependency (must feed on dead bodies)
*Habitat (places of death)
*Hatred (the living)
*Heightened Senses
*Lunar Influence
*Nocturnal
*Pack Hunter
*Rapid Healing
*Shadowform
*Vulnerability (Fire)
== Description ==
A Ghoul is a creature which lives in places of death and feeds off the energies of decay to be found there. They have sleek, black, leathery bodies, although these bodies can barely be seen due to the creature's natural Shadowform characteristic.
== Location ==
Ancient places of death, such as graveyards, ruins, and battlefields.
== Modus Operandi ==
The Ghoul and its pack hunt through the night, seeking dead bodies to devour. They hate the living, and will kill and devour them on sight. Ghouls attack by surrounding the victims, howling and glaring through the darkness with its empty, red glowing eyes (the only part of it that is visible in the darkness. They will circle the victims, coming in to the circle and attacking one by one, then leaping back out. They can only be injured when in physical form, which only occurs in light.Although they are wild, and not Servitor-class creatures, “tame” Ghouls can be created and employed by powerful magicians.
== Neutralization ==
Ghouls are real, physical creatures, and so can be killed using mundane methods, but since it has the Shadowform characteristic, it can only be injured while substantial, when no light is shined on it. When a Ghoul dies, it decays to nothing in a few seconds.
== Story Seed ==
A police detective is entering a crime scene, a house where a disturbance was reported. As he steps on the porch, the windows shatter out, and before he covered his face he swore he saw the faces of black, evil creatures inside. Afterward, he hears the galloping of leathery feet away from the house, but he sees nothing. Entering the building, he finds a body, drained of blood and half-devoured.
Category:ESPER
Category:Creatures