History Characters / GrimHollow

!Creatures
!!Aberrations
[[folder:Aberrant Horror]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (whipskein horror), 5 (amorphous horror), 9 (shifting hulk)
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* {{Mutants}}: Those who survive the uncontrolled transformation into aberrant horrors become living weapons. Some theories say the body sees the transmuting force as a threat and evolves defences against it. Others believe that the accident triggers dormant bestial adaptations from the distant past.
* WasOnceAMan: Without proper precautions, experimenters or their subjects might become twisted into something abominable known as an aberrant horror.

[[folder:Anguisher]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
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* InvisibleMonsters: The anguisher uses invisibility and stealth to lurk around potential victims, slowly draining them of life by recalling their suffering.

[[folder:Blood Brood]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (bulb), 4 (brooder)
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* BlobMonster: The blood brood is an ooze-like aberration made of blood and viscera.
* EmpathicHealing: The blood brood can exchange blood when close, losing health to ensure the survival of others.

[[folder:Bog Crawler]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
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* CombatTentacles: Six large tentacles jut from the mass of the bog crawler's body, three on each flank, and are long and strong enough to attack nearby creatures and structures.
* HungryMenace: Bog crawlers' primary motivation is hunger. They eat any flesh, starting with wildlife, moving on to livestock, and then feasting on any community they encounter, destroying everything in their path in search of food.

[[folder:Cauchemange]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (larva), 2 (corporeal), 5 (incorporeal)

* BioweaponBeast: The cauchemange is a result of a failed experiment by a long-dead Ostoyan wizard. Her intent was to create a creature that allows command over armies of mind-controlled servants. Instead, the experiment created a creature that feeds on and manipulates people's nightmares.
* ChestBurster: Once a cauchemange larva matures, it bursts out of the host's body.
* EmotionEater: The cauchemange induces nightmares, hallucinations and terrifying thoughts, which it feeds upon to mature.
* LivingDream: A nightmare made flesh, the corporeal cauchemange takes the form of the host's worst nightmare, depending on the host's fears or lusts.

[[folder:Coral Grazer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (larva), 11 (adult)

* BigEater: Coral grazer larvae eat tremendous amounts to fuel their growth, and can be as much of a threat as adults.
* CombatTentacles: A coral grazer's tentacles end in beaks, with which it uses to tear apart and consume coral.
* EatDirtCheap: The coral grazer eats anything made of a similar substance to coral, from shells to some stone.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Some coral grazers have been gifted with the power of magical flight, making them extremely effective and dangerous hunters, even out of water.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: An adult coral grazer's unnatural presence can cause fear.

[[folder:Grotesquerie]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (minion swarm), 16 (grotesquerie)

* DevourTheDragon: A grotesquerie can order one swarm of its minions into its maw to heal itself.
* ExtremeOmnivore: A grotesquerie can slowly digest any kind of material. Given time, the stones in its gizzard pulverise flesh, bone and metal.
* MonsterLord: A grotesquerie suborns the will of weak-minded woodland creatures, which hunt for food.
* ThatsNoMoon: While the grotesquerie remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a rotting tree stump.

[[folder:Horror Flit]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (hunter), 3 (swarm), 6 (breeder)

* ChestBurster: Horror flits reproduce by killing other creatures. When a horror flit hunter chomps down on its prey and starts feeding from the inside out, it discharges reproductive secretions.
* TrulySingleParent: A horror flit breeder has devoured so much that it can spontaneously reproduce, spewing swarms from its mouth.

[[folder:Kokela]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 22

* BrownNote: Living creatures in the vicinity of the slumbering kokela are constantly agitated, as the hum of its song slowly eats away at their psyches. Characters may find creatures in this area more hostile than normal.
* NightmareWeaver: The kokela slumbers, but it affects the world around it with its dreams, creating a nightmare landscape.

[[folder:Leeching Willow]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

* AchillesHeel: The ring of a large bell instantly disrupts all connections from the infected who can hear the ringing, destroying all spores within the same radius. For this reason the leeching willow subconsciously imparts memories onto the infested of strong hatred toward anything that can ring or vibrate in such a manner. All bells are gathered up and hidden far away where they cannot be heard.
* FakeMemories: The leeching willow can manipulate the memories of the infected, turning them into unwitting prey. After walking into a settlement and planting itself in the middle of the night, it uses its memory-altering spores to trick people into thinking it's always been there.
* TheSymbiote: The leeching willow feeds using psychic spores, which are breathed in by sentient creatures and move into the brain. From there the leeching willow feeds on the electrical energies of the brain. The feeding process is slow and requires the infection of multiple sentient creatures, whose vigour is sapped and mental energies drained.

[[folder: Malakir, Arch Daemon of Pride]]
The most powerful of the Arch Daemons, the Velvet Queen is the patron of tyrants, corrupt officials, and all those who seek to abuse their power over those weaker than them.
* AnswersToTheNameOfGod: As the most powerful Arch Daemon, and with the actual pantheon out of the picture, she sees herself as the only being left worth of the title of "God."
* ArchEnemy: Morael, the Arch Seraph of Sacrifice. As he is the ultimate HumbleHero, she dismisses him as a weakling not worth mentioning.
* FallenHero: Not Malakir herself, but she ''does'' delight in making them, tempting noble heroes to believe their own legend, falling to vanity and narcissism.

!Creatures
!!Aberrations
[[folder:Aberrant Horror]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (whipskein horror), 5 (amorphous horror), 9 (shifting hulk)
----
* {{Mutants}}: Those who survive the uncontrolled transformation into aberrant horrors become living weapons. Some theories say the body sees the transmuting force as a threat and evolves defences against it. Others believe that the accident triggers dormant bestial adaptations from the distant past.
* WasOnceAMan: Without proper precautions, experimenters or their subjects might become twisted into something abominable known as an aberrant horror.

[[folder:Anguisher]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
----
* InvisibleMonsters: The anguisher uses invisibility and stealth to lurk around potential victims, slowly draining them of life by recalling their suffering.

[[folder:Blood Brood]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (bulb), 4 (brooder)
----
* BlobMonster: The blood brood is an ooze-like aberration made of blood and viscera.
* EmpathicHealing: The blood brood can exchange blood when close, losing health to ensure the survival of others.

[[folder:Bog Crawler]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
----
* CombatTentacles: Six large tentacles jut from the mass of the bog crawler's body, three on each flank, and are long and strong enough to attack nearby creatures and structures.
* HungryMenace: Bog crawlers' primary motivation is hunger. They eat any flesh, starting with wildlife, moving on to livestock, and then feasting on any community they encounter, destroying everything in their path in search of food.

[[folder:Cauchemange]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (larva), 2 (corporeal), 5 (incorporeal)

* BioweaponBeast: The cauchemange is a result of a failed experiment by a long-dead Ostoyan wizard. Her intent was to create a creature that allows command over armies of mind-controlled servants. Instead, the experiment created a creature that feeds on and manipulates people's nightmares.
* ChestBurster: Once a cauchemange larva matures, it bursts out of the host's body.
* EmotionEater: The cauchemange induces nightmares, hallucinations and terrifying thoughts, which it feeds upon to mature.
* LivingDream: A nightmare made flesh, the corporeal cauchemange takes the form of the host's worst nightmare, depending on the host's fears or lusts.

[[folder:Coral Grazer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (larva), 11 (adult)

* BigEater: Coral grazer larvae eat tremendous amounts to fuel their growth, and can be as much of a threat as adults.
* CombatTentacles: A coral grazer's tentacles end in beaks, with which it uses to tear apart and consume coral.
* EatDirtCheap: The coral grazer eats anything made of a similar substance to coral, from shells to some stone.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Some coral grazers have been gifted with the power of magical flight, making them extremely effective and dangerous hunters, even out of water.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: An adult coral grazer's unnatural presence can cause fear.

[[folder:Grotesquerie]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (minion swarm), 16 (grotesquerie)

* DevourTheDragon: A grotesquerie can order one swarm of its minions into its maw to heal itself.
* ExtremeOmnivore: A grotesquerie can slowly digest any kind of material. Given time, the stones in its gizzard pulverise flesh, bone and metal.
* MonsterLord: A grotesquerie suborns the will of weak-minded woodland creatures, which hunt for food.
* ThatsNoMoon: While the grotesquerie remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a rotting tree stump.

[[folder:Horror Flit]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (hunter), 3 (swarm), 6 (breeder)

* ChestBurster: Horror flits reproduce by killing other creatures. When a horror flit hunter chomps down on its prey and starts feeding from the inside out, it discharges reproductive secretions.
* TrulySingleParent: A horror flit breeder has devoured so much that it can spontaneously reproduce, spewing swarms from its mouth.

[[folder:Kokela]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 22

* BrownNote: Living creatures in the vicinity of the slumbering kokela are constantly agitated, as the hum of its song slowly eats away at their psyches. Characters may find creatures in this area more hostile than normal.
* NightmareWeaver: The kokela slumbers, but it affects the world around it with its dreams, creating a nightmare landscape.

[[folder:Leeching Willow]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

* AchillesHeel: The ring of a large bell instantly disrupts all connections from the infected who can hear the ringing, destroying all spores within the same radius. For this reason the leeching willow subconsciously imparts memories onto the infested of strong hatred toward anything that can ring or vibrate in such a manner. All bells are gathered up and hidden far away where they cannot be heard.
* FakeMemories: The leeching willow can manipulate the memories of the infected, turning them into unwitting prey. After walking into a settlement and planting itself in the middle of the night, it uses its memory-altering spores to trick people into thinking it's always been there.
* TheSymbiote: The leeching willow feeds using psychic spores, which are breathed in by sentient creatures and move into the brain. From there the leeching willow feeds on the electrical energies of the brain. The feeding process is slow and requires the infection of multiple sentient creatures, whose vigour is sapped and mental energies drained.

!Creatures
!!Aberrations
[[folder:Aberrant Horror]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (whipskein horror), 5 (amorphous horror), 9 (shifting hulk)

* {{Mutants}}: Those who survive the uncontrolled transformation into aberrant horrors become living weapons. Some theories say the body sees the transmuting force as a threat and evolves defences against it. Others believe that the accident triggers dormant bestial adaptations from the distant past.
* WasOnceAMan: Without proper precautions, experimenters or their subjects might become twisted into something abominable known as an aberrant horror.

[[folder:Anguisher]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
----
* InvisibleMonsters: The anguisher uses invisibility and stealth to lurk around potential victims, slowly draining them of life by recalling their suffering.

[[folder:Blood Brood]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (bulb), 4 (brooder)

* BlobMonster: The blood brood is an ooze-like aberration made of blood and viscera.
* EmpathicHealing: The blood brood can exchange blood when close, losing health to ensure the survival of others.

[[folder:Bog Crawler]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15

* CombatTentacles: Six large tentacles jut from the mass of the bog crawler's body, three on each flank, and are long and strong enough to attack nearby creatures and structures.
* HungryMenace: Bog crawlers' primary motivation is hunger. They eat any flesh, starting with wildlife, moving on to livestock, and then feasting on any community they encounter, destroying everything in their path in search of food.

[[folder:Cauchemange]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (larva), 2 (corporeal), 5 (incorporeal)

* BioweaponBeast: The cauchemange is a result of a failed experiment by a long-dead Ostoyan wizard. Her intent was to create a creature that allows command over armies of mind-controlled servants. Instead, the experiment created a creature that feeds on and manipulates people's nightmares.
* ChestBurster: Once a cauchemange larva matures, it bursts out of the host's body.
* EmotionEater: The cauchemange induces nightmares, hallucinations and terrifying thoughts, which it feeds upon to mature.
* LivingDream: A nightmare made flesh, the corporeal cauchemange takes the form of the host's worst nightmare, depending on the host's fears or lusts.

[[folder:Coral Grazer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (larva), 11 (adult)

* BigEater: Coral grazer larvae eat tremendous amounts to fuel their growth, and can be as much of a threat as adults.
* CombatTentacles: A coral grazer's tentacles end in beaks, with which it uses to tear apart and consume coral.
* EatDirtCheap: The coral grazer eats anything made of a similar substance to coral, from shells to some stone.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Some coral grazers have been gifted with the power of magical flight, making them extremely effective and dangerous hunters, even out of water.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: An adult coral grazer's unnatural presence can cause fear.

[[folder:Grotesquerie]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (minion swarm), 16 (grotesquerie)

* DevourTheDragon: A grotesquerie can order one swarm of its minions into its maw to heal itself.
* ExtremeOmnivore: A grotesquerie can slowly digest any kind of material. Given time, the stones in its gizzard pulverise flesh, bone and metal.
* MonsterLord: A grotesquerie suborns the will of weak-minded woodland creatures, which hunt for food.
* ThatsNoMoon: While the grotesquerie remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a rotting tree stump.

[[folder:Horror Flit]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (hunter), 3 (swarm), 6 (breeder)

* ChestBurster: Horror flits reproduce by killing other creatures. When a horror flit hunter chomps down on its prey and starts feeding from the inside out, it discharges reproductive secretions.
* TrulySingleParent: A horror flit breeder has devoured so much that it can spontaneously reproduce, spewing swarms from its mouth.

[[folder:Kokela]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 22

* BrownNote: Living creatures in the vicinity of the slumbering kokela are constantly agitated, as the hum of its song slowly eats away at their psyches. Characters may find creatures in this area more hostile than normal.
* NightmareWeaver: The kokela slumbers, but it affects the world around it with its dreams, creating a nightmare landscape.

[[folder:Leeching Willow]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

* AchillesHeel: The ring of a large bell instantly disrupts all connections from the infected who can hear the ringing, destroying all spores within the same radius. For this reason the leeching willow subconsciously imparts memories onto the infested of strong hatred toward anything that can ring or vibrate in such a manner. All bells are gathered up and hidden far away where they cannot be heard.
* FakeMemories: The leeching willow can manipulate the memories of the infected, turning them into unwitting prey. After walking into a settlement and planting itself in the middle of the night, it uses its memory-altering spores to trick people into thinking it's always been there.
* TheSymbiote: The leeching willow feeds using psychic spores, which are breathed in by sentient creatures and move into the brain. From there the leeching willow feeds on the electrical energies of the brain. The feeding process is slow and requires the infection of multiple sentient creatures, whose vigour is sapped and mental energies drained.

!Creatures
!!Aberrations
[[folder:Aberrant Horror]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4 (whipskein horror), 5 (amorphous horror), 9 (shifting hulk)

* {{Mutants}}: Those who survive the uncontrolled transformation into aberrant horrors become living weapons. Some theories say the body sees the transmuting force as a threat and evolves defences against it. Others believe that the accident triggers dormant bestial adaptations from the distant past.
* WasOnceAMan: Without proper precautions, experimenters or their subjects might become twisted into something abominable known as an aberrant horror.

[[folder:Anguisher]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
----
* InvisibleMonsters: The anguisher uses invisibility and stealth to lurk around potential victims, slowly draining them of life by recalling their suffering.

[[folder:Blood Brood]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (bulb), 4 (brooder)
----
* BlobMonster: The blood brood is an ooze-like aberration made of blood and viscera.
* EmpathicHealing: The blood brood can exchange blood when close, losing health to ensure the survival of others.

[[folder:Bog Crawler]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 15
----
* CombatTentacles: Six large tentacles jut from the mass of the bog crawler's body, three on each flank, and are long and strong enough to attack nearby creatures and structures.
* HungryMenace: Bog crawlers' primary motivation is hunger. They eat any flesh, starting with wildlife, moving on to livestock, and then feasting on any community they encounter, destroying everything in their path in search of food.

[[folder:Cauchemange]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/4 (larva), 2 (corporeal), 5 (incorporeal)
----
* BioweaponBeast: The cauchemange is a result of a failed experiment by a long-dead Ostoyan wizard. Her intent was to create a creature that allows command over armies of mind-controlled servants. Instead, the experiment created a creature that feeds on and manipulates people's nightmares.
* ChestBurster: Once a cauchemange larva matures, it bursts out of the host's body.
* EmotionEater: The cauchemange induces nightmares, hallucinations and terrifying thoughts, which it feeds upon to mature.
* LivingDream: A nightmare made flesh, the corporeal cauchemange takes the form of the host's worst nightmare, depending on the host's fears or lusts.

[[folder:Coral Grazer]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3 (larva), 11 (adult)

* BigEater: Coral grazer larvae eat tremendous amounts to fuel their growth, and can be as much of a threat as adults.
* CombatTentacles: A coral grazer's tentacles end in beaks, with which it uses to tear apart and consume coral.
* EatDirtCheap: The coral grazer eats anything made of a similar substance to coral, from shells to some stone.
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Some coral grazers have been gifted with the power of magical flight, making them extremely effective and dangerous hunters, even out of water.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: An adult coral grazer's unnatural presence can cause fear.

[[folder:Grotesquerie]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 1/2 (minion swarm), 16 (grotesquerie)

* DevourTheDragon: A grotesquerie can order one swarm of its minions into its maw to heal itself.
* ExtremeOmnivore: A grotesquerie can slowly digest any kind of material. Given time, the stones in its gizzard pulverise flesh, bone and metal.
* MonsterLord: A grotesquerie suborns the will of weak-minded woodland creatures, which hunt for food.
* ThatsNoMoon: While the grotesquerie remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a rotting tree stump.

[[folder:Horror Flit]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 2 (hunter), 3 (swarm), 6 (breeder)

* ChestBurster: Horror flits reproduce by killing other creatures. When a horror flit hunter chomps down on its prey and starts feeding from the inside out, it discharges reproductive secretions.
* TrulySingleParent: A horror flit breeder has devoured so much that it can spontaneously reproduce, spewing swarms from its mouth.

[[folder:Kokela]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 22

* BrownNote: Living creatures in the vicinity of the slumbering kokela are constantly agitated, as the hum of its song slowly eats away at their psyches. Characters may find creatures in this area more hostile than normal.
* NightmareWeaver: The kokela slumbers, but it affects the world around it with its dreams, creating a nightmare landscape.

[[folder:Leeching Willow]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12

* AchillesHeel: The ring of a large bell instantly disrupts all connections from the infected who can hear the ringing, destroying all spores within the same radius. For this reason the leeching willow subconsciously imparts memories onto the infested of strong hatred toward anything that can ring or vibrate in such a manner. All bells are gathered up and hidden far away where they cannot be heard.
* FakeMemories: The leeching willow can manipulate the memories of the infected, turning them into unwitting prey. After walking into a settlement and planting itself in the middle of the night, it uses its memory-altering spores to trick people into thinking it's always been there.
* TheSymbiote: The leeching willow feeds using psychic spores, which are breathed in by sentient creatures and move into the brain. From there the leeching willow feeds on the electrical energies of the brain. The feeding process is slow and requires the infection of multiple sentient creatures, whose vigour is sapped and mental energies drained.

* YourWorstNightmare: A nightmare made flesh, the corporeal cauchemange takes the form of the host's worst nightmare, depending on the host's fears or lusts.

* AmnesiacHero: A variation; it's not that they don't remember their past... as much as it is that they spent so long dreaming, they no longer remember what was real and what was a dream. For instance, [[https://ghostfiregaming.com/blog/the-imagery-of-the-dreamers/ when one Dreamer]] was initially freed by the dwarves, he leaped into the air and tried to ''fly''.