Ghoul Yokai

**Ghoul Yokai** are cannibalistic beings who attack humans for their flesh.

## Physical Appearance

Ghouls can come in any shape and form. Some look human while others are more animalistic. They could have normal human skin or having abnormal colors like red and blue. Some could look grotesque and has sharp claws. There's no true form of the Ghoul Yokai as to what they're supposed to look like.

## Description

Ghouls has various forms. They can look just like humans. They can also look more animalistic or more grotesque with sharp claws and fanged teeth. But they all have something in common. Ghouls are cannibals. They feed on corpses and living flesh. They also abducts young children to eat and lures unwary people into abandoned places, often classified as undead. These creatures usually dwell in graveyards and cemeteries. There are variations to the ghouls. Common versions includes:

* **Cursed Ghouls** - Former humans who have been transformed into a ravenous horde of monsters or a barely sentient cannibal clan by magic or divine punishment. Typically punished for inhuman acts such as greed, murder, or often cannibalism, these former men are still alive, but turned into flesh-eating monsters that typically haunt graveyards. They often have razor-sharp claws, fangs and/or muzzles, long limbs and a lot of hair. Compare to wendigo.
* **Genie Ghouls** - The Islamic version of ghouls are demonic child-eating shape-shifter jinn that inhabits graveyards.
* **Lovecraftian Ghouls** - Ghouls as a living and non-human species, often with Lovecraft's distinctive canine muzzle and ears, and with a pale or greenish cast. Other types of ghouls as their own living race do occasionally appear in other media.
* **Mutant Ghouls** - Former humans who have been transformed into a ravenous horde of monsters or a barely sentient cannibal clan by disease, poison, radiation, or other physical reason, or being touched by some Eldritch Abomination.
* **Mythic Ghouls** - The original ghoul of pre-Islamic Arabian mythology, neither genies nor undead, used by old Arab to frighten kids. similar to Bogeymen.
* **Vampiric Ghouls** - Either created by vampires as a servant, or just a relative or offshoot of the standard vampire. They vary from immortal (if twisted) humans to mindless zombie minions to beings more powerful than vampires themselves.
* **Zombie Ghouls** - Flesh-eating undead, either your standard zombie by another name, or a specific zombie derivative. When the two coexist, the ghouls will generally be the more bestial and savage of the two, and more willing to eat rotten flesh. Perhaps the zombie will be subject to magical control, like the old voodoo zombies. Garden-variety re-animated corpses may count as these.

## Abilities

Here are the abilities that Ghoul Yokai can have in their arsenal:

* Disease Immunity
* Enhanced Condition or Supernatural Condition
	+ Contaminant Immunity
	+ Enhanced/Supernatural Durability
	+ Enhanced/Supernatural Senses
		- Enhanced/Supernatural Smell
	+ Enhanced/Supernatural Speed
	+ Enhanced/Supernatural Strength
* Natural Weaponry
	+ Powerful Bite

### Variations

* Autonomous Body Parts
* Claw Retraction
* Decelerated Aging or Semi-Immortality
* Genie Magic
* Ghoulification
* Life-Force Absorption
* Magic
* Matter Ingestion
* Necromancy
* Undead Magic

**Cursed Ghouls**

* Curse Empowerment
* Cursed Physiology

**Genie Ghouls**

* Genie Physiology
	+ Killing Intuition
	+ Shapeshifting
		- Post-Mortem Shapeshifting

**Mythic Ghouls**

* Darkness Adaptation or Night Empowerment
* Fear Inducement
* Lunar Manipulation
* Shapeshifting
* Soul Absorption
* Soul Mutilation

**Undead Ghouls**

* Undead Physiology

### Types of Ghouls

* Ghoul Lord Physiology
* Radioactive Ghoul Physiology
* Mutated Ghoul Physiology
* Qutrub Physiology
* Silah Physiology
* Superior Ghoul Physiology
* Transcendent Ghoul Physiology

### Associations

* Bogeyman Physiology
* Classic Monster Physiology
* Demon Physiology
* Genie Physiology
* Ghoul Manipulation
* Mesopotamian Deity Physiology
* Monster Physiology
* Mythic Physiology
* Undead Physiology
	+ Draugr Physiology
	+ Revenant Physiology
	+ Vampire Physiology
	+ Wight Physiology
	+ Zombie Physiology
* Wendigo Physiology
* Werewolf Physiology

## Pop Culture

Ghouls are one of the least consistently portrayed creatures in fiction, partly because the phrases "ghoul" and "ghoulish" are poorly defined terms that can refer to anything or anybody interested in the macabre and morbid, giving writers the ability to name almost any cannibalistic, flesh-eating or just creepy monster after them. As time marched on, Ghouls have become the poster-child to give spawn to other flesh-hungry offshoots, such as the Zombies, Wendigoes, and also the Vampires.

## Variations

### Undead Yokai

In various shows and movies, ghouls are often classified as undead. They often walk around graveyards and cemeteries to feed on the corpses during the night.

### Zombie Yokai

Zombies shares many characteristics with ghouls. They were both normal humans until something happened that turn them into monsters. When the two coexist, the ghouls will generally be the more bestial and savage of the two, and more willing to eat rotten flesh. Perhaps the zombie will be subject to magical control, like the old voodoo zombies. Garden-variety re-animated corpses may count as these.

### Wendigo Yokai

Wendigoes, like ghouls, are cannibalistic creatures. They were once human before they were forced to eat a person. Causing them to turn into the wendigo.

### Vampire Yokai

Either created by vampires as a servant, or just a relative or offshoot of the standard vampire. They vary from immortal (if twisted) humans to mindless zombie minions to beings more powerful than vampires themselves.

## Life in the Hidden World

Since they can have a more humanoid appearance, they're able to blend in with the normal humans. Being oblivious to the fact that the ghouls are cannibals and are looking for their next meal. They can live in any region of the Hidden World. In the Saudi Arabia Region of the Hidden City, ghouls are sometimes confused with zombies, causing them to be mistaken as undead monsters rather than demons. Coinciding with the Arabian folklore, ghouls in Saudi Arabia are said to be a desert-dwelling, shapeshifting, race of devils that can assume the guise of an animal and lure unwary people into the desert wastes or another abandoned place to slay and devour them. They are famed for preying on young children, drinking blood, stealing coins, eating the dead, and taking the form of the person that they have most recently eaten.

## Symbolism

Modern Arabs use ghūl to designate a human or demonic cannibal and frequently employ the word to frighten disobedient children. Anglicized as ghoul, the word entered English tradition and was further identified as a grave-robbing creature that feeds on dead bodies and on children.