Ghouls

Ghouls are the husks left behind, the darkest part of a creature as it passes onto the next life or oblivion, depending on your belief. Most simple creatures are lucky enough to experience a life free of enough unnatural malice that the Ghoul they leave behind is weak and quickly breaks apart into the world around it. But unfortunately, the many of us born into mortal form have a much higher capacity to gather the sort of darkness that can spawn a much more viable creature.

— Barron Karristire - Touch and Reason

Ghouls are wicked creatures that haunt both the living and the dead. They feed of missays and are rarely ever alone. A great variety comes from these foul creatures. Ahr-Ghouls, Len-Ghouls and more. They love nothing more than to hold shelter in dreary places of sadness and ruin. Though it must be said that they are never the cause of such places; Only drawn to them after their founding events have come to pass.   Like many creatures of fixed local, they like to hold things of perceived worth. They are particularly fond of silver though it hurts for them to touch. Ghouls revel in weakness, doing all they can to enforce it. They do so to the extent that they will rarely kill anything they do not perceive as a direct threat and will instead take cause to beat what they can find down until it nothing but a cowering wreck.   The things must eat, as most do; not truly undead as many past scholars have supposed. They are entirely carnivorous with each breed preferring a particular type of meat.   It is a sad day a person becomes a ghoul. They say it is a fate that anybody with enough time can succumb. How this fate occurs is not something I will discuss in this report, though it can be found given enough research.   Of their allies, there are those you would suspect. Creatures of misery find company in the likes of Lead and Iron Dagons. A more unlikely pairing you will find is their affinity to Harroks and Chasts. Vampires, Demons and Devils have a great deal in common with these creatures and more than one academic has posited some formal connection to their cause.   All in all I would advocate the removal of such creatures to anyone well prepared. But sight great caution to those without bonds and backup; for those, it would be best to leave those places alone and let no one wander too close.

— Count Cardinal Feagin, Count of Vellies