Despite this, they tend to have slovenly personal habits and bear a musty stink on the best of days. Ghouls are immune to non-magical disease, and thus are not often vectors for disease as many might expect. The ghoul’s feet are hooved like those of a goat. Its stance is somewhat hunched, with broad shoulders, hands that appear human but bear sharp talon-like nails on the fingertips, and legs that bend like those of a dog.
A ghoul’s bestial features extend to the rest of its body. A ghoul’s mouth slavers and its long tongue frequently lolls when not in active use. A ghoul’s ears are large and pointed, and its hair is generally short and mangy with thick bristly patches on the back, shoulders, and forearms. This snout isn’t large enough to significantly distort or hamper the ghoul’s ability to speak or express itself, although ghouls do tend to have a guttural, raspy tone to their voices. The ghoul’s visage is almost canine, with a pronounced snout filled with sharp teeth that look almost akin to the fangs of a hyena. From their distinctive appearances to their behavior, the contrast grows increasingly stark.Ī ghoul is humanoid in shape, yet much more monstrous in appearance than a mere human. While many of their habits, appetites, and preferences are identical to those possessed by undead ghouls, no one who gets to know a Mythos ghoul will make the mistake of assuming they’re ravenous undead again. Though Mythos ghouls blur the line between life and death, they are indeed living organisms. from a distance, mistake you for a were-creature.assume you live in a graveyard or sleep in a coffin.are frightened of your appearance and assume you’re barely intelligent.underestimate others’ repugnance at your feeding, even as you wallow in your depravity.have chosen a specific type of humanoid as the focus of your curiosity: you may consider yourself to have once been one of these humanoids, prefer the flavor of their flesh, or simply wish to adopt elements of their culture and belief as your own.find graveyards to be pleasant places, and aren’t particularly afraid of the idea of undeath.are immensely eager to learn more about the world’s history.enjoy making others uncomfortable, often via odious eating habits.have a dark sense of humor and are amused by death rather than frightened by it.
They are not ashamed of their nature as ghouls, but are somewhat envious of humanoid cultures, which they often find very intriguing. They enjoy eating carrion for the flavor and the fragments of memory they can absorb, and take delight in knowing others are discomforted by this fact. Whatever the case, ghouls have been with us since we first began burying our dead, and are likely to remain among us until after the last of our graves have been filled. Some believe ghouls are a fragment of an ancient past or the manifestation of a new future. Many suspect these ghouls to have first come to this world by tunneling into graveyards from below, after digging deep into areas of the Dreamlands. They preserve that which was lost, both in their habit of aping old customs and in regaining memories forgotten by feeding upon the dead. The history of the ghoul race can be read in every boneyard, every necropolis, and every anonymous grave. HistoryĪs long as humanity has lived, hungered, and died, there have been ghouls dwelling in the shadows, eager to feed on flesh and memories. Unless otherwise noted in the text below, when the word “ghoul” is used, it is used to refer to the living ghouls of Lovecraft’s traditions, rather than monstrous undead ghouls. Nonetheless, living ghoul necromancers are fond of using undead as minions, and undead ghouls often appeal to the sardonic sense of irony so many ghouls possess. While their demeanor and nature would seem to make them natural allies to undead ghouls, competition for food and the undead hatred of the living makes living ghouls and their undead counterparts bitter enemies. Unlike the more well-known grave-gorging undead that share the same name, these ghouls are living creatures. A Mythos ghoul is just as likely to aid visitors as attack, if not more so. Mythos ghouls are not savage or feral, but possess a keen intellect and a complex society steeped in lore and custom. And yet, those who suspect a ghoul of being nothing more than a savage monster are often surprised to learn otherwise. Dwellers in graveyards and connoisseurs of flesh and bone, these hooved eaters of the dead move with hungered poise, slaver for the living, and exude the stench of a charnel house. The word “ghoul” often conjures grotesque images that shock and nauseate. Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos - Pathfinder
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