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Outer Zoology - The Ghouls

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OUTER ZOOLOGY: THE GHOUL


My third installment of my Outer Zoology series, the Ghoul, which, aside from perhaps the likes of Deep Ones or Shoggoth are some of the better known races/servitors ect. Please note that every time I do this, I am both trying to take as much as I want of the main source material, expand where there is nothing, and edit things from my own creativity and POV. Sometimes I change things if they do not make sense or could be more creative. I have opined before on many mythos races being goblin like. As such, my ghoul is neither a goblin nor an undead man. I have taken from the circle's work as well as leaning heavily into Lovecraft's thought of them being very canine like. Some research went into biology, canine behaviors, and human anatomy.
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- These ghouls have very different reproductive organs than humans. I did this to be creative, to have some body horror, and the fact that I gave ghouls fertility issues they overcame with eldritch evolution. - Speaking of fertility issues, I did this because they were snatching up children. I want actions to have purpose, and just snatching up children in the dead of night doesn't really make sense unless there was a purpose. Add to the fact that people like Richard Upton Pickman were able to have a split of human form and ghoul, I came up with the idea of infertility. - I divvied up ghouls into two categories as well: Ancient ones and modern, mutated ghouls. I did this because I thought it would be neat, and an added affect of Yogash's blessing on his own people. - There is quite a bit of world building in this, and it is focused on modern times though I don't really see why you can't put it in other eras too, or even the Dreamlands. The great ghoul underground, or really, the Underground was a delightful accident. - Playing off “man's best friend”, I wanted ghouls to be softer to humans than other races, but have a deeply complicated and troubled history between one another. - No mythological overlapping this time. The entry didn't justify putting it in: changelings could easily be inferred from ghouls.
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