Vol-Hum

The Vol-Hum are the divine servants of Erastil who live on The godly Plane in The Divine Wood. They look like various prey animals of the forest, ranging from rabbits, ducks, and pheasants to deer, elk, and bears. While in The Divine Wood, the Vol-Hum feel no pain and, if they die, instantly gain a new body. As such, it is considered a fun game to be hunted in the Wood, much like a game of tag. To do this, one or more of the Vol-Hum take on their human-like form, becoming ethereal ghostly hunters that float over the ground, legs fading away to nothing so they leave no tracks, then hunting down and killing the other Vol-Hum who are joining in. The Vol-Hum tend to only take this human-like form when hunting or when otherwise necessary and instead spend most of their time in their animal forms.
As part of the trial to become a Vol-Hum, those followers of Erastil whom he chooses from The Greylands must hunt within The Divine Wood, where they are given the names of one hundred other Vol-Hum whom they must track down and kill. Most at first start by simply hunting every animal they see, which will, by random chance, get them some of the names off of their list, but as the number of names diminish, they must become skilled in hunting a particular being who can change shape at will and knows that they are being hunted. Thus, simply learning to track a deer is no good. The hunter must learn to track behaviors that can be seen no matter what form the Vol-Hum takes, such as little tell-tale signs left in the path it chooses, the streams it likes to drink at, or the way it walks.
Category:Erastil
Category:Divine Beings