Cerebral Gorger

Cranial Vampires

Cerebral gorgers are malevolent creatures currently largely confined to deep ravines within the Toxic Basin. They are greatly feared by intelligent creatures for they use such beings, or their brain fluid to be exact, to power the crystal domes that house their experimental technologies.
Cerebral gorgers dislike direct sunlight, though they are not harmed by it. When traveling above ground in daylight hours, they usually cloak themselves in robes of gray or black. The gorger’s leathery, whitish flesh is nearly translucent and in older encephalon gorgers one can faintly see veins and other organs pushing grayish-brown blood through its body. This creature is completely hairless and its eyes are small with nictitating membranes. Its mouth is lined with short, needle-like teeth, with the canines being most pronounced.
Cerebral gorgers refer to themselves as Silians and they have been magically trapped for centuries within a deep, sealed ravine in. Their lairs are great crystal domes, built for function rather tahn comfort. Each lair, regardless of its location, has dozens of slave pits and breeding pens filled with captured, intelligent humanoids (or other creatures). The slaves are maintained by a specialized group of silians called the Breeders. It is their job to tend to food supply of the city at all times and to gauge the relative worth of each and every humanoid used by the gorgers for feeding. In recent history, these have been almost exclusively phalloides, or their less advanced kin, the fungus folk, as few other intelligent species venture in to the Toxic Basin, and its a rarity for hunting parties to breach far from the ravine.
Cerebral gorgers sometimes trade with the phalloides, usually trading for slaves, which are taken to the Breeders. Other slaves are kept by particular cerebral gorgers and assigned menial tasks. Once such a slave has exhausted its usefulness, it is “recycled” in the food pens so long as it isn’t dead. Dead slaves are discarded, ground up into a bland paste that is fed to the other slaves.
Little is known of particulars regarding the gorger’s society; such as reproduction, lifespan, aging patterns and so on. A few things that are known come from a group of adventurers that saw one of the crystal domes and lived to tell about it. They spoke of large vats filled with cranial fluid maintained by the Breeders and of young silian being grown in these vats. They also spoke of the horrid squalor of the breeding pits and the slaves kept in them.