All Ghoul Things

Ravenous of Kabriri 

In the depths of the abyss lies necropolis of Everglut, home to the first ghoul. Being the first to devour the flesh of your brother brings with it great power apparently, and today we are going to look at the being that started cannibalism. Kabriri, the Demon Lord of ghouls, graves, and secrets kept by the dead is this week’s divine focus. I present to you three possible sects of the Lord of Ghouls, He Who Gnaws, Kabriri.

As always, let us imagine we are sitting at our theoretical gaming table. Our imaginary GM sets out the rules for the game that we will play. In this game, we are to make a follower of Kabriri. The character does not need to be a divine caster, just a devotee of He Who Gnaws. What character do you make?

For more information on Kabriri

Kabriri’s Pathfinder Wiki Page

Kabriri’s Archives of Nethys Page

The Gravedigger’s Union

Members of the Gravedigger’s Union pose as mild-mannered undertakers in small communities around Andoran. Unionized labor is not unheard of in the fledgling democracy, but it is the perfect cover for this group’s true motives. The Gravediggers are highly trained assassins who worship the murder aspect of Kapriri’s portfolio. Their calling card is that their victims are always found in a grave with a wooden tomb marker giving the exact time of their death.

Becoming a member of the Gravedigger’s Union is an honor bestowed, not sought. The assassins are selected from the ranks of smaller cults of the Demon Lord, and the prospective members are trained in both the art of death and funerary. The sect has members that originated from many professions, martial or magical.

The Feast of Memory

Some explorers seek to gain knowledge from scouring the ruins of ancient civilizations. The Feast of Memory plumbs the knowledge of the ancients by ripping it from their cold, dead minds. These grave robbers search ancient tombs for the remains of those who once walked the earth to commune with the spirits. They do so by devouring a portion of the dead person, whether from the canopic jar of mummy organs or a skeleton’s bones crushed into an easily ingested paste.

The sect consists of mostly masters of the necromantic arts, arcane and divine. The sect has some few support staff who assist with actually getting into the hoary tombs, but often the members will just hire on with adventuring parties as a magical backup to achieve their goals. Admittance into the sect requires that one has feasted upon the flesh of the dead with a pack of ghouls.

The Rotters

Of the intelligent undead, ghouls are the most social. They often live in packs in the wild and have even formed vast underground cities in the Darklands and the undead friendly nation of Geb. To the living the flesh of the dead seems vile. However, to the ghouls, differing amounts of rot and decay have a variety of flavors. The Rotters are a sect of ghouls who experiment with corpses to produce differing flavors incurred by degrees of decomposition and manners of burial.

The leader of the sect, a ghoul who in life was named Ulmer Khemt, was a connoisseur of food and wine. He was a vintner of his own wines and brought in chefs from around the world to sate his eclectic palate. It was when one chef failed him and he had the man killed that he tasted his first bit of human flesh. Now he and his Rotters bring new and different flavors of putrefied flesh to the ghouls of Geb.

This being’s followers erupt to life and bring something new to the table every time. Who is your disciple of Kabriri? Why have they chosen to dedicate themselves to He Who Gnaws? Where does their devotion to this Demon Lord come from? Let me know in the comments.

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