Ghouls

Of all the foul monstrous creatures that the strains of Toxoplasmosis immortous is known to give rise to none is as well known and hated as the creatures created by strain G01, the ghoul strain.
This strain creates not one but four creatures that blur the lines between unliving, undead, and mystic, and these creatures forever link in their foul “life cycle” are known as ghouls, ghasts, guls, and ghulahs. We will discuss each of these creatures in the order they appear in their “life cycle” for lack of better term.

First in the cycle are the ghouls who have the sadness lot in this cycle for they were not born ghouls but were once normal humanoids, normally humans, who were infected with the ghoul strain. Toxoplasmosis immortous G01 is past on mostly by bites or coming in contact with the bodily fluids of one of the creatures created by it resulting in the newly infected coming down with high fever before rising as an unliving ghoul. While transforming the nails and teeth become stronger and thicker resulting in deadly claws and fangs, ghouls also loss all taste for anything that isn’t meat. Preferring raw and rotting meat but ghouls will eat cook and flesh meat if that all there is, Ghouls other senses however are incease and they gain the ability to see in the dark, which in turn makes them sensitive to bright light. They also gain depression, high levels of other mental illnesses thanks part both to their new state of being and how others treat them.

Even the most open and tolerant of societies will cast ghouls out, but there are in fact good reasons. First being that the hunger for meat all ghouls have will turn them to cannibalism, normally eating only the dead but it often doesn’t take much for them to start attacking the living. Second of all like every creature created by Toxoplasmosis immortous G01 they have the ability to absorb memories and knowledge from eating raw brains, which may sound helpful but often results in madness or turning into little more then a feral animal when ghouls eat to many brains. Third, ghouls are carriers for many diseases and parasites that thanks to being unliving they are immune too, but others aren’t so lucky. And finally, the biggest reason is that any ghoul population will give rise to the other creatures listed here.

It is important to remember that ghouls start out as unliving, true they will turn into undead when they die but while they are unliving they still can reproduce. When they do so there are to possible options for what the child will be, the first being the child will be a normal member of their parents race before they were infected but with high chance of being carriers for Toxoplasmosis immortous G01. In which case the ghouls will try to give the child away without anyone knowing who their biological parents are since the child would have little to no hope of surviving if they were raised by ghouls, but sadly there is another thing the child could be, a ghast.
Sometimes a ghoul will lay egg that looks like a ball of rotten meal, all ghouls by instinct will not harm egg but they will try to stay away from it as much as possible. For in one-month time that egg will hatch into a hungry unliving call a ghast, a creature that will grow to adulthood in year time. Ghasts are hairless digitigrade humanoids with arms as long as their legs, prehensile tail, almost canines like heads with mouths full of fangs and hand and feet ending claws, who if when they stand on their hid legs are about human size. These pack predators are non-sapient but are smart enough to use simple tools. With their ability to see in the dark, jaws strong enough to chew though streel, great hearing and sense smell, ability to fit though openings as big as their heads, they are deadly predators made worst by their unliving nature and the fact they carry diseases they are immune to, including Toxoplasmosis immortous G01.  They also are known to mutated fairly easily. Hair, fur, spines, barbs, spikes, horns, spurs, antlers, bone plates, and quills are the common mutations they have.

Ghasts will hunt and eat almost anything, they will even eat ghouls if no other prey is around, and thanks to their ability to rise from the dead as undead evening putting them down doesn’t mean end to their hunting. But putting them down is something all try to do for if they are allowed to breed then soon from their spawn and even worst creature will arise, a ghul.

Ghuls are epic shape-shifting necromancy mystic fur cover humanoid ungulates (with both clove and non-clove hooves) who look a lot like their ghast parents in their nature form, with the diffecenes being their arms are in the same proportions as humans, their tongues are fork, and they have paths of hair. Unlike their ghast parents and siblings they are sapient and are as intellect as humans, so you would thing they would be easier to deal with, unfortunately this is not the case at all. Ghuls you see still see other humanoids as little more then prey and as sure their personalities often grow to show this feeling. Combine this with the fact they have all the same abilities of their ghast relatives, who they can control, combine with their abitity to change their shape to almost any solid thing their size they are view far worst then the ghasts. Another for this view is the fact that female ghuls lay their eggs inside corpses, leaving the later hatch ghul alone to eat their way out. And thanks to the fact ghuls don’t have mammy glands and females have ovipositors they are often confuse by many to be humanoid males which have led to very unpleasant myth about how new ghuls are made.

However as unlike as ghuls are there are another creature in their “live” cycle that is even more dislike, ghulahs. These creatures are 12 ft(3.6m) tall all female humanoids that look like giant female ghuls, in addition to all the abilities of ghuls they can also change size to either about half their true size. Then their the charm song they can use to put those if wills weaker then their own into a trance, making it easier to feed off them. However the real ghulahs are hated more then ghuls is the fact they are far more fertile and birth large numbers of ghul, ghulah, and even ghast children while also having a powerful instinct to create more ghouls.
Ghoul Culture

To no one surprise the creatures made by Toxoplasmosis immortous G01 don’t have any true culture of their own. Ghouls are still follow their old culture as best they can, ghasts are nothing more but animals, while ghuls and ghulahs just adopted what the ghouls are doing when they aren’t eating them or turning them into slaves. Really the only thing that comes close to culture almost them is how they line up with one another. Ghouls are at the bottom and their interaction with ghasts are mostly trying to not get eaten by them till the ghuls and ghulahs show up and take charge by forcing the ghouls to obey unless they want to get eaten by ghasts. All the while trying to stay hidden from any sapient races around, as few races are willing to allow them to exist.

With that said it should also be noted that space travel has been very kind to these creatures being that they are unliving, undead, or just very close to them. Meaning they need little to no air, food, heat, or water, and radiation have little to no effect on them. So, it isn’t unheard of for less then noble ship crews to keep a few of them around just to work away in the less then safe areas of a poorly kept ship. There also the fact that also thanks to the same reasons they are use for this they also been able to male colonies on almost every known large ship and station that have humanoids on it.

Now before we end it must be said that while most sapient beings are hard on ghouls, ghuls, and ghulahs for very good reasons they are still sapient beings themselves and therefore no more inherent evil then any other, as hard as that may be to believe. There for it is possible for them be noble and good individual despite their “biology”.

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Submitted March 11, 2019 at 03:21PM by DrakeGodzilla https://ift.tt/2XULJYq