Ghouls

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Ghouls (グール, Gūru) are death personified, rotten corpse-like creatures born from the very dead they feast on. These creatures can be found littering battlefields and graveyards at night devouring whatever dead and rotting flesh they can get their hands on.
==Description==
Ghouls are the creatures that haunt everyone's nightmares, creatures born from the mishandled corpses of the fallen born anew to devour the flesh and bone of their less mobile brothers and sisters. These beings are often born from those who die and bodies are never found, never being given a proper burial they rise again taking on the form of a ghoul. Ghouls are necrophages, beings that make meals of the dead and thus are attracted to places such as graveyards and recently abandoned battlefields, anywhere that a corpse might be found. Rarely found within the larger cities throughout Firdaus, Ghouls tend to plague the countryside where they roam freely at night in cemeteries before retreating to the darkness of abandoned buildings or ancient tombs when the sun begins to rise. Though it should be noted that Ghouls are not unable to wander around in the sunlight, they simply prefer the cover of darkness where their meals are less likely to be interrupted.
Despite being known for eating corpses, Ghouls have no qualms with attacking living creatures if they feel threatened. Ghouls are known to be fairly quick and depending on how long since their last meal could very well have the same strength they would have had in life. They also possess the ability to run on all fours which allows them to run rather quickly and often faster than most people. That being said, Ghouls dislike engaging with humans or living beings, in general, will often run away if possible. However, in large numbers, Ghouls have been known to grow bold and will attack people and even groups of people with the intention of killing and devouring them. This is why ghouls are often quickly disposed of before their numbers can rise, the beings have a strong weakness to silver and fire. These jobs are often tasked to mages or hunters for a fair bit of coin.
Ghouls are not like most creatures, having no ability to breed with their existence relying solely on the death of lost travelers and mishandled corpses lost and never rightly buried and as such it is not uncommon for missing person cases leading to ghoul sightings not far from where the person or people were last seen.
Category:Monsters
Category:Undead
Category:Races