Lacedons are as notorious in the folktales of undersea peoples as ghouls are in those of surface races. Larger undead nations use humans as slave labor, forcing them to work the farms to feed themselves so they can in turn be served up as meals for their undead masters.Īquatic ghouls, called lacedons, live within secluded reefs and underground caves near communities of underwater humanoids like grindylows, locathahs, or merfolk. The rulers of these nations recognize that they cannot hope to win a war against the much more populous nations of living creatures, so arrangements are made with neighbors to trade for slaves or even just corpses. Though these nations of undead are often ruled by liches or other, more powerful undead, ghouls are known to hold positions of power or even rule in some such places. The ghouls in these cities consider living humanoids little more than livestock. In some remote regions, entire cities or nations are populated by ghouls and other undead. Not all ghouls live in dark warrens under cemeteries, however. Some ghouls are content to survive on the flesh of the dead for years at a time, but eventually almost all of them start to hunt the living. Graves settling unnaturally or sinkholes in a cemetery are sure signs of a ghoul pack. Small packs of ghouls often live in warrens carved beneath cemeteries where they can dig up corpses to satisfy their cravings for flesh. Graveyards have a natural allure to ghouls, and many wind up spending their undead existence dwelling in such places. However, when a ghast rises, opportunistic ghouls emboldened by its presence might make attacks against elven communities they would otherwise avoid as difficult targets. Though ghasts are, in their most basic state, more powerful than other ghouls, they rarely take on leadership roles because of their overwhelming aggression.
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Though a ghoul might serve a leader loyally for years, it won't hesitate to betray its leader if doing so results in more frequent meals. They have a natural tendency to form into packs for defense and hunting, but no trust or love is shared between the members of these packs. Most ghouls are so filled with self-loathing that they have little love for others of their kind. After the victim finally dies, she wakes up at the next stroke of midnight, obsessed with the hunger for flesh. Eventually, the victim's mortal body fails entirely.
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Feeding the victim flesh from a corpse temporarily alleviates her cravings, but does not slow the onset of the disease. If denied food, the victim becomes increasingly desperate and violent as her hunger grows. From the onset of the disease, an insatiable hunger overcomes the victim, yet her body begins to reject all normal food and drink. Potential victims have good reason to fear ghouls, as dying of ghoul fever is a horrifying fate. This spread can be abrupt or gradual, but either way it stops only when someone seeks out and slays all of the ghouls. Stories of cannibals turning into ravenous undead still stop many people from eating the dead even in the most desperate of circumstances.Īlways searching for the flesh of humanoids, ghouls thrive where people live, and their domains steadily expand as the creatures infect new victims with ghoul fever. Ghouls figure prominently in superstitious tales, and their hunger is legendary.
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Though the creatures can reason, they seldom listen to what the living say, and would much rather treat them as meals than as friends. Fear of flesh-hungry ghouls keeps people away from graveyards at night.