[✓] [Beast Lore]Boggens; The Gluttonous Gravediggers

[Damnit_Delmar 1051]

Boggens

The Gluttonous Gravediggers

Sepulcher Ghoul Magic the Gathering Art from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Set by Jason A. Engle

 

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Culture/History

Creatures from an age where Necromancers held more power and the mortals were more careless, Boggens are predators of both man and beast alike. Nicknamed ‘The Gluttonous Gravediggers,’ these beasts can be found throughout the lands. Whether in a mist-filled swamp or the hazy corpse-dredged battlefield, these beasts of the bog are nothing to trifle with. 

 

The story tells of how these creations resulted from foul Necromancy gone awry, causing the creation of this wicked and bestial undead to spread throughout Aeos and Eos. A simple scratch or a simple bite spreads plague among those afflicted, and soon the onset of a terrible desire to consume the dead fills them. 

 

Creature Summary

A creature born for war and misery, these beasts of the damned often stand a bit taller than they were in life. Ranging from 5-7 ft in height, their bones have grown longer due to the necrotic tinkering done upon them. Their nails now resemble talons, and their teeth have become needle-like and thin. Their body would resemble a pale and preserved corpse, their hair falling out wholly or remaining in thin wisps. Their eyes now bearing an abyssal green-blue hue. 

Behavior

Boggens are nothing more than a husk for hungry lifeforce. The soul of the individual is barely there, the only ingrained instinct and emotion being animalistic and cruel in nature. This is due to them often using the memories they acquire through eating the dead to lure in and trap the unknowing. These skilled predators use their acute control of mists to replicate the homes or visages of their victims. 

Abilities

Mist Manipulators

These foul dead hold the innate ability to manipulate mist and fog around them. Allowing them to cover themselves and attempt to feign life, they are able to mimic the appearance of anyone they have eaten, in addition to utilizing their manipulation of mists to cause the surrounding area to take on the shape of different areas they have seen. 

Redlines

• They may control an area up to the range of Shout, anything outside of that range will be able to be seen as fake and illusionary

• They can only mimic the appearance of the individual they are disguised as, being unable to mimic words, scent, or speech. The illusion is entirely visual. 

• Should a Boggen attempt to disguise themselves as another individual, they would find difficulty in holding a true illusion. Still holding the inability to speak, as well as mask their scent.  

• They cannot control mist while also attacking, at best maintaining a dense and hard to see fog in #Q range while also attacking. 

The Rotten Smog

The dead are known for their horrid smell, often reeking of rotten flesh and viscera. The Boggen is no exception to their undead kindred. Coming off as a pale and sickly-smelling mist, like a mixture of rotten eggs and skunk spray, those that reside in the Rotten Smog will find themselves growing sickly. Those without protection from plague and malady find their skin growing horrid yellow-blue rashes. Warped Warts growing over their visage as those who had breathed in the foul concoction would find trouble breathing. All of these symptoms last for 3 OOC Days before diminishing and clearing themselves over time. 

Redlines

• The Boggen is capable of controlling this rotten smog, though the range of control extends to a maximum of 8 blocks around them. 

• One has to be within the fog for 6+ emotes in order to be infected with the disease.

  • The disease involves warts, shortness of breath, and peeling yellow-blue rashes that form on any area left exposed. 

  • This Disease can be treated with Deadmans Cure, Paladin Healing, or Farseer Shamanistic Blessings. 

  • The use of Hemo-flow will double the recovery rate, the disease running its course in 3 OOC days rather than a full OOC week. 

• Those that breathe through Air Purifying Respirators, hold the Healthy Body Mutation, Necromancers and Undead will find themselves immune to the effects of the horrible odor.

• A person may opt to OOCly keep this plague permanently.  

 

Redlines

• Boggens are unable to be properly tamed and friendly creatures, always desiring to hunt or kill.

• A group of 4 T3+ Necromancers as well, through RO approval, may conduct a custom and free-form ritual in an area to raise a Boggen/’s in an area for creating a Player Hosted Event/Eventline. 

  • This may not be done to provide ‘additional’ forces to a necromancer, the Boggen/’s are still hostile and will still attempt to kill their creators once raised. This cannot be used for benefit of the necromancers in combat or active combat, and is strictly for player events.

• Boggens hold the strength of a lesser orc, however are limited to the use of claws and teeth

• Their bones, due to their oversaturation of lifeforce, have become far stronger in nature. Becoming as durable as iron. 

• An individual is unable to capture the foul Smog of mist that lays around a Boggen, the stench soon leaving the rotten corpse once it is slain.

 

Credits

Writing - SilvertheDM

Consultation - boughtabride

References/Original Inspiration - Xarkly, The Lectorate

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[Wizzar 481]

Love unique creatures to include in RP and events, this is great! +1

[squakhawk 7922]

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Removed mention of boneforging as it is redundant. Added clarification to necromancer summoning. MArt and MArt references removed.