Degolified

* The Paranormal Order
* Deconjuration
* Initiation
* The Secret in the Forest - Part 1

> Even with reports of agents who have succeeded in their investigations, the phrase that repeats itself as a legend awakening Fear by all agents of the Order is: "If you see long black hair floating towards you... RUN."
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> Paranormal Order RPG Playbook
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The **Degolified** is one of the most feared paranormal creatures in the universe. She has all the known **Elements**, thus being comparable to a direct manifestation of the Other Side.

All manifestations of a Degolified are strongly connected to terrible tragedies involving young people who died cruelly directly involved in paranormal rituals. According to the Play Book, she develops and distorts more each time she manifests herself in Reality.

Her first appearance was in the 1st episode of The Paranormal Order, being a manifestation of Gabriel Opspor in Agatha Volkomenn's body. After causing the main deaths in Nostradamus High School, the creature only dies after Elizabeth Webber solved her Enigma of Fear.

## Appearance

 The main variation of this creature appears to oscillate between some states of matter, sometimes being physically visible and sometimes having a certain degree of transparency.

Physically has the appearance of a young girl with black, straight and long hair, who cover her face and run her body to the ground. Her spine is twisted and lean and reverses in the area of the abdomen making her thin. Her arms and legs seem to hang from her body as she slowly floats a few inches above the ground.

The creature carries a lot of fog wherever it goes and her clothes are the same as the victim at the time of death. Her face has empty eyes and her mouth is sewn with a material similar to her own skin, but it is not possible to see because of bands covering her. These bands also run through part of her arm, and her skin appears to have visible cracks.
It's possible to see in the Paranormal Order RPG Playbook that the creature has other variations of her appearance, each with a themed Element; but only one of these versions came to appear in the RPG, being this the **Blood** one.

The **Blood** variation, named **Devoured Degolified**, has an extremely large and muscular curved body made of flesh, with arms that have two extra pairs that come out of the original and smaller. Her hair is much smaller compared to the body and limbs, and from her head, the mouth opens disturbingly running through her torso, possessing throughout this extension an absurd amount of teeth, in addition to having a considerable amount of blood throughout the body.

The **Knowledge** variation, named **Gnostic Degolified**, possesses a body resembling her original version, but her hair curls the entire body and forms a kind of halo on top of her head that also resembles ornaments seen in paintings of saints. The Gnostic Degolified has no sewn or capped mouth, with it trying to open from the skin seams. Possessing several sigils shining on her skin, along with a golden aura that runs through it.

The **Energy** variation, named **Disturbed Degolified**, replaces her entire physical form and clothing with an Energy material that shines in purple, having a feature that emanates despair, just like other Energy creatures. The hair, instead of being an extension of your body, merges with the Energy material and its roots act like flames that throw themselves up and curl around the arms.

The **Death** variation, named **Decrepit Degolified**, is very similar to the original version, but her body becomes a bare skeletal physiognomy of gray color. The face becomes a skull with a spiral at the top, and it runs through the black ooze characteristic of Death.

## Behaviour

The Degolified gets around floating clumsily with her hair covering her face as she seeks as much as possible to approach her victims. The long strands of hair are used as the main way to attack your targets, strangling them, exploding from the inside out, or crushing the head.

She can break through the fence in her mouth, releasing a powerful deafening cry in all those close to her, usually bringing terrible auditory consequences.

She cannot be defeated by direct confrontation normally. Instead, the cause of its manifestation must be investigated and used to confront Degolified, thus solving her Enigma of Fear. Only after this revelation can the creature be dispelled or defeated.

## Cases

### Gabriel Opspor

Her first appearance was when Agatha Volkomenn lured Gabriel Opspor to the hidden bunker at the Nostradamus High School library, where both studied, performing there a ritual that made them switch bodies before Agatha killed Gabriel. Mathew Geleerd and Gustavo, Gabriel’s friends arrive with the camera hoping that his friend would make Agatha confess to killing the other students, however they witness what appeared to Gabriel killing his colleague. With the Veil already weakened due to the deaths of the other students, the body where Gabriel Opspor lived undergoes a transformation and becomes the Degolified, killing Gustavo while Agatha and Mathew flee.

### Nina

Her second appearance was at St. Menefreda Orphanage in the dormitories' area. It is discovered that Nina was the target of a terrible death at the hands of some other orphans, being the main among them Gal, Nubi and Henri. After that, she reappeared as Degolified, haunting the right part of the building.

To dispel the Degolified, the agents had to join the two parts of Nubi’s favorite bunny, thus making the creature disappear.

## Skills

* **Fly:** Degolified has the ability to move floating through the air. In pursuit, the creature was shown to move faster as it advanced, facilitating its approach.

* **Ripped Scream:** The Degolified is able to tear the tissue trapped in her mouth to perform a deafening scream, affecting the target’s eardrums. This can cause one-to-two hearing loss, temporarily or permanently.

* **Grab and Choke:** The Degolified uses her long strands of hair to grab his victim, wrapping him around his neck and strangling him.

* **Regeneration:** By only being defeated by solving her Enigma of Fear, the creature, by taking damage, regenerates quickly. If too much damage is done, her physical form dissipates in the air, but returns over time and will continue to return until the unknown ends.

## Metamorphosis

Depending on several factors, Degolified can undergo physical mutations directly linked to one of the Elements, mudando seu elemento principal ao se transformar.

* **Devoured Degolified:** By absorbing a grabbed target after killing it, the Degolified turns into a **Blood** form bigger and more aggressive.
* **Decrepit Degolified:** When there's much time dedicated to the Degolified trying to attack her, she turns into a **Death** form more skeletal and twisted.
* **Disturbed Degolified:** In case the Degolified drives someone insane, it turns into an **Energy** form more ghostly and intangible.
* **Gnostic Degolified:** If someone fails to confront the Degolified with the cause of her invocation, she turns into a **Knowledge** form more golden and shiny.

## Trivia

* During The Paranormal Order, Cellbit passed several references, also called "Moodboard", for the understanding of the ambience of the RPG to the artist. Those in which they had some references and inspirations for the arts of the Degolified and Nostradamus High School.
	+ The image features an art by Tim Burton in the center, showing a boy, likely reference to the appearance of Gabriel Opspor.
	+ The image has three photos depicting abandoned schools and a photo depicting a floor full of ashes, since the school had been burned.
	+ The image also consists of two photos of the gameplay of two games, specifically Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, in the left corner, and Fatal Frame IV, in the right corner.
	+ At last, the image also has a photo of "The Whispering Woman", one of the stories of Junji Ito.
* Degolified was the first creature of Paranormal Order to have an official illustration.
* It is known that at some point the Degolified had only 4 Elements: Blood, Death, Energy and Fear. However, because of her consecutive manifestations in reality, she acquired the Element of Knowledge.

## Gallery

* Arts
* Covers

Nubi's bunny plush, used to dispel Nina's DegolifiedDegolified's art in The Paranormal OrderDegolified and its variations in Paranormal Order RPG PlaybookDecrepit Degolified's lineart in Paranormal Order RPG Playbook, by KaelDegolified's lineart in one of the chapters of Paranormal Order RPG Playbook, by KaelDegolified's art in Deconjuration, by KaelDegolified in The Paranormal Order's bannerDegolified in Initiation's coverDegolified's Sketch in the Initiation's cover, by AkilaDegolified's Lineart in the Initiation's cover, by AkilaDegolified's Coloring in the Initiation's cover, by AkilaDegolified in the semi-finished version of the Initiation's cover, by AkilaDegolified in the promo announcement art of InitiationDegolified in the Initiation's banner

Degolified in the first part's cover of "Final Episode"
## References

1. ↑ Twitter. Tweet from Ordem Paranormal
2. ↑ Twitter. Tweet from Rafael Lange
3. ↑ Twitter. Tweet from Ordem Paranormal
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Her first appearance in The Paranormal Order - Episode 1 (*watch on YouTube* at 5h20m10s)
5. ↑ The Paranormal Order - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h38m49s)
6. ↑ The Paranormal Order - Episode 1 (*watch on YouTube* at 5h20m29s)
7. ↑ The Paranormal Order - Episode 1 (*watch on YouTube* at 5h21m54s)
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 First appearance of the Devoured Degolified in The Paranormal Order - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h07m44s)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Paranormal Order - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h09m32s)
10. ↑ Recording of Agatha killing Gabriel in The Paranormal Order - Episode 1 (*watch on YouTube* at 5h08m49s)
11. ↑ Nina's death in Deconjuration - Episode 6 (*watch on YouTube* at 5h35m22s)
12. ↑ Deconjuration - Episode 6 (*watch on YouTube* at 5h25m33s)
13. ↑ The Paranormal Order - Episode 1 (*watch on YouTube* at 5h23m46s)
14. ↑ The Paranormal Order - Episode 2 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h13m23s)
15. ↑ Twitter. Tweet from rafael lange (March 1, 2020)
16. ↑ Clip "Degolificada" from Cellbit.