Graveborn
The Graveborn are a horrifying offshoot of ghouls found in the frigid, death-haunted corners of Aigusyl. Unlike their more Common kin, Graveborn rise not from rot and decay, but from flesh preserved in permafrost—bodies long buried beneath ice, forgotten in snow-choked battlefields, or lost in glacial tombs.
Their appearance is both eerie and mournful: skin stretched tight and pale over rigid limbs, with black-blue veins of necrotic frost threading beneath. Their mouths are filled with jagged, ice-encrusted teeth, and their eyes burn with a cold auroral light. Wherever they roam, they bring the silence of snowfall and the dread of something long buried returning with purpose.
Graveborn hunger not just for flesh, but for memory—devouring the dead to steal whispers of who they were. It is said they sometimes mimic their victims, speaking in fragmented voices or imitating long-lost gestures, as though trying to remember what it meant to be alive. In this way, they do not merely feast—they haunt.
Found mostly in the Glacial Echoes, they are feared by travelers and tribes alike, and even The Frigid Synod—who preaches control through ice—treats them as aberrations. To face a Graveborn is to face a shadow of the past that refuses to rest, and a chilling reminder that in the cold, nothing ever truly decays… it simply waits.
