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Ghul (Blood Types)
Cost: 281 ([150]+[175]-[55]+[0]+[11]) points
Description
This version of Ghul comes from Arabian folktales of the type popularized by The Arabian Nights and is a demon.
- Attributes and Secondary Characteristics [150]: ST+10 [100], HT+5 [50]
- Advantages and Perks [175]: Vampiric Bite [30], Claws [5], Dark Vision [25], Discriminatory Smell [15] Immune to Disease [10], Tunneling (2 Hex/Turn) (60], Silence +3 [15], Unaging [15]
- Optional Advantages [N/A]: Appearance, Regeneration, Vampiric Immortality, Vampiric Resurrection
- Disadvantages and Quirks [-55]: Dependency (Human Flesh or Blood) [-30], Bloodthirst [-15], Frightens Animals [-10]
- Optional Disadvantages [N/A]: Appearance, Bad Smell
- Skills [0]: No Racial Skills
- Optional Skills [N/A]: None
- Innate Magic [11]: Magery 1 (Racial Spells Only -40%) [9]; Charm-10 [1], Pestilence -10 [1]
- Features: None
Ghoul (Fantasy)
Cost: 0 ([20]+[19]-[39]+[0]+[0]) points
Description
This version is not a vampire but simply a creature that must feed on the dead.
- Attributes and Secondary Characteristics [20]: ST+2 [20]
- Advantages and Perks [19]: Acute Taste and Smell 2 [4]; Night Vision 5 [5]; Reduced Consumption 4 (Cast-Iron Stomach, -50%) [4]; Silence 1 [5]; Teeth (Sharp Teeth) [1]
- Optional Advantages [N/A]: None
- Disadvantages and Quirks [-39]: Appearance (Unattractive) [-4]; Restricted Diet (Human Flesh; Substitution, Other Flesh, -50%) [-10]; Secret (Imprisonment or Exile) [-20]; Skinny [-5]
- Optional Disadvantages [N/A]: None
- Skills [0]: No Racial Skills
- Optional Skills [N/A]: None
- Innate Magic [0]: None
- Features: None
Ecology[]
The female Ghul of Muslim folklore is the "ghoul" most people think of when they imagine a flesh eating creature. While it is true the Arabic ghoul eats corpses it is a corpse animated by a "vampire spirit".
The Ghole of Arabic lore is a shapeshifter that in its true form is a hairy long tusked cyclops with a long neck like an ostrich. They can on occasion fall in love with a human and fore them to become its mate. The offspring of such a union is another "type of ghole, a monstrous being that is a fast, savage, extremely effective predator that takes delight in killing and raping."
Hannya[]
(HAN-ya)
Meaning "empty" the hannya is a vampiric demon from Japan that feeds exclusively off truly beautiful women and infants. "It is described as having a large chin, long fangs and horns, green scales, a snakelike forked tongue, and eyes that burn like twin flames."
Vampires that are also ghouls[]
- Alqul (Arabic folklore)
- Aluga (Mediterranean)
- Aluka
- Balbal (Tagbanua, Philippines)
- Dodelecker (Germany)
- Ghoulas (Algeria)
- Katacan (Sri Lanka)
- Pacu Pati (India).
References[]
- Bane, Theresa (2010). Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology. McFarland. pg 66
- Classic: Blood Types 90
- GURPS Fantasy 108-109