When a child is stillborn the parents whisper about their curses. When an tank of nutritive algae or yeasts go bad they are accused of sabotaging the vat works. When raiders and mutants come howling out of the wastelands they are accused of being spies.
The Yilum, "The Pariah Race," are a human-like people of especially unsettling aspect. Hairless, the Yilum are practically identical in appearance to humanity, aside from the six fingers and toes; double pupils; two rows of teeth; and gelatinous, transparent skin that reveals leprous silvery, gray and purple muscles; a dirty yellow-gray skeleton; the circulatory system; and blotchy, throbbing internal organs. In moist conditions their skin exudes a greasy mucous; in arid conditions this mucous dries into translucent waxy gray filmy scabs that shred and hang off their skin. Some Yilum have a third eye, set vertically in the center of their forehead; many three-eyed Yilum also have three pupils instead of two.
Although tolerated by most civilized settlements, the Yilum and despised outcasts who often perform degrading and hazardous tasks that True Men feel to be beneath them; and when ill fortune strikes the Yilum are often scapegoated as poisoners, spies or warlocks. Certainly no True Man would allow a Yilum to touch him or enter his abode.
Some folk tales say that the Yilum are simply mutant Men, other say that they were created by the Great Old Ones at the dawn of time when the Lords of Light formed Man. Another legend says that they are the descendants of an Ancient Baron who betrayed his Autarch and had his progeny cursed as a result.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Sunday Sphygyx
The Sphygyx, a man-like yet unrelated race, have human-like bodies with soft, short tawny fur and heads resembling a scaled smilodon. Their eyes are amber or golden orbs with no visible pupil; their scales continue in a strip down their spine, and are reticulated like a serpent in greens and browns. Both genders have breasts and nurse their young. Sphygyx society is based upon clans of matriarchal mercenary-nomads, and strongly values tradition, bravery, honor, and hierarchies. The Sphygyx despise cowardice, and many Sphygyx who wander Algol outside of the clans have been driven out by the open scorn heaped upon them for incident of fear upon the battlefield. They prefer battling in chariots, armed with bow, lance, axe and shotel. The Sphygyx worship their own small pantheon of Lawful deities, all depicted as female Sphygyx, and keep collections of small idols of these gods to set up shrines in their campsites or dwellings. Sphygyx do not understand affection or humor, and do not form strong interpersonal bonds; they have a reputation for being emotionless, aloof, abrupt, condescending, and rude among other races.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Sentient Beings of Planet Algol
Just a little list-making exercise while I try to hash out languages for the players in my campaign.
True Men
Algol Men
Ancients (almost completely extinct)
Earth Men
Semi-Men
Ancients (some varieties)
Apemen
Cactoids
Cavemen
Cyborgs
Degenerated Serpent Men
Deodands
Dryads
Ghouls
Hybridoids
Lamia
Maggot People
Morlocks
Monoclopians
Mutants
Pallid Croakers
Saucer Men
Synthoids
Vampires
Un-Men
Algoid
Androids
Crabmen
Draala
Gillmen
Hssu
Lizardoids
Gnoles
Gyraphonts
Mulg
Phraint
Robots
Space Aliens
Xorn
Elder Races
Aboleths
Deep Ones
Demons
Flying Polyps
Grey Martians
Hluss
Mind Eaters/Brain Lashers
Mi-Go
Primordial Ones
Serpent Men
Shoggoth
Shunned Ones
Slaad
Ssu
Star Spawn
Yithians
True Men
Algol Men
Ancients (almost completely extinct)
Earth Men
Semi-Men
Ancients (some varieties)
Apemen
Cactoids
Cavemen
Cyborgs
Degenerated Serpent Men
Deodands
Dryads
Ghouls
Hybridoids
Lamia
Maggot People
Morlocks
Monoclopians
Mutants
Pallid Croakers
Saucer Men
Synthoids
Vampires
Un-Men
Algoid
Androids
Crabmen
Draala
Gillmen
Hssu
Lizardoids
Gnoles
Gyraphonts
Mulg
Phraint
Robots
Space Aliens
Xorn
Elder Races
Aboleths
Deep Ones
Demons
Flying Polyps
Grey Martians
Hluss
Mind Eaters/Brain Lashers
Mi-Go
Primordial Ones
Serpent Men
Shoggoth
Shunned Ones
Slaad
Ssu
Star Spawn
Yithians
Monday, November 30, 2009
Planet Algol Race/Class - The Lilim
Lilim
Requirements: Intelligence 10, Dexterity 10, Charisma 15, female gender, must be of non-lawful alignment.
The Lilim are a synthetic race created as pleasure-slaves by an extinct race of Ancients. As they were sorcerously engineered to stimulate the jaded appetites of a advanced, decadent race, some have very striking appearances. Lilim have the entire range of coloration and texture of their bodily features available to the Human race, both Earth Men and Algol Man. One Lilim could appear to be an ordinary Earth Woman; another could be hairless, with with garishly patterned scaled skin and bushy silver hair.
The Lilim have the abilities of the Houri class (see White Dwarf issue #13), although Lilim with a Strength of 15 may be multiclass Fighting-Women/Houri and Houri with a Dexterity of 15 may be Thief/Houri multiclass. One important difference from the Houri as originally presented is that they are not limited to the dagger, although they may not use their Houri abilities in any armor.
Lilim reproduce parthenogenically, by means of laying a large egg. The appearance of the egg varies wildly, dependent upon the coloration and so forth of the young Lilim it contains. It takes several years for a Lilim egg to hatch, and the eggs are tough and fairly temperature resistant. When it egg hatches it disgorges a tiny version of a full-grown Lilim. The smaller form of the Lilim are called Ymplins; they grow and mature at a far more rapid rate than Humans.
Requirements: Intelligence 10, Dexterity 10, Charisma 15, female gender, must be of non-lawful alignment.
The Lilim are a synthetic race created as pleasure-slaves by an extinct race of Ancients. As they were sorcerously engineered to stimulate the jaded appetites of a advanced, decadent race, some have very striking appearances. Lilim have the entire range of coloration and texture of their bodily features available to the Human race, both Earth Men and Algol Man. One Lilim could appear to be an ordinary Earth Woman; another could be hairless, with with garishly patterned scaled skin and bushy silver hair.
The Lilim have the abilities of the Houri class (see White Dwarf issue #13), although Lilim with a Strength of 15 may be multiclass Fighting-Women/Houri and Houri with a Dexterity of 15 may be Thief/Houri multiclass. One important difference from the Houri as originally presented is that they are not limited to the dagger, although they may not use their Houri abilities in any armor.
Lilim reproduce parthenogenically, by means of laying a large egg. The appearance of the egg varies wildly, dependent upon the coloration and so forth of the young Lilim it contains. It takes several years for a Lilim egg to hatch, and the eggs are tough and fairly temperature resistant. When it egg hatches it disgorges a tiny version of a full-grown Lilim. The smaller form of the Lilim are called Ymplins; they grow and mature at a far more rapid rate than Humans.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Races of Algol Men
"...Algol is much older than Earth, and has had life and intelligent inhabitants for far longer....Over the millennia in the weird environments of Algol many of those species have developed along strange evolutionary paths as well and there are many different races of man that are, despite being wholly human, are radically different in appearance to Earth men, possessing strange coloration or features such as crests, webbed digits, scaled skin, or other such things strange to our earth sensibilities..."
Note that although the racial names below are the proper nomenclature, it is common to describe an Agog Man soley by their skin color, ie. an Agogi as a Pink Man, a Lhoyg as a Black and White Man, a Mhoght as a purple man, or a Zhaxxi as a Silver Man. Earth Men are immediately recognizable as a foreign race by Algol natives and are referred to as Earth Men regardless of their skin colour. Among the upper and learned classes the usuage of skin color as a descriptor is considered vulgar and the proper racial name is used instead, aside from Earth Men.
Agogi Men
Most are hairless.
Thin, fine silver or white hair.
White or pink eyes.
Angalla Men
Nut brown to mahogany skin
Glossy wavy black hair.
Men have thick, lustrous facial hair.
Black or brown eyes.
Azgukh Men
Blue-green skin with purple stripes like that of a tiger.
Inky dark green to dark purple hair.
Gold eyes.
Barshi Men
Black, glossy skin.
Black, straight or wavy glossy hair.
Black, gray or gold eyes
Bone Men
Transparent flesh, like very clear glass, only the skeleton is visible.
Hairless.
Transparent eyes.
Dhazzhi Men
Bronze skin
Black, inky blue, dark metallic green or silver hair.
Gold or bronze eyes.
Gresh Men
Lemon yellow skin.
Hairless.
Yellow, green or brown eyes.
Haasht Men
Jade-toned, finely scaled skin.
Men have crests of lavender to blue-green scales instead of hair.
Women have wavy hair that are the same colours as the men's crests.
Iridescent bronze or copper eyes.
Hyperborean Men
Ashen white skin.
Silvery to gray hair.
Gray, white or yellow eyes.
Jhagkhi Men
Dull gray skin.
Shark-like fin on head instead of hair.
White to light gray eyes.
Kherulhi Men
Sky blue glossy skin.
Completely hairless.
Black eyes
Khoolvi Men
Orange skin with dark-brown or black tiger stripes, like that of a tiger.
Black, brown or coppery straight to bushy hair.
Copper eyes.
Lhovhami Men
Scarlet to vermilion glossy skin
Black, straight, glossy hair.
Black or dark brown eyes.
Lhoyg Men
Black and white skin in a piebald pattern.
Hairless.
Black or white eyes, having two different colored eyes is very common.
Mhoght Men
Purple, finely scaled skin.
Bushy or woolly black hair.
Men have bristling facial hair and broad, heavy facial features.
Black eyes.
Morheeg Men
Orange and yellow mottled skin.
Black, straight glossy hair.
Black eyes.
Nire Witches
Ivory skin.
Black, long, straight hair.
Blue, gray or yellow eyes.
The Nire race is entirely composed of women.
Ohlvidhi Men
Golden skin.
Coppery, bronze or brassy curly to bushy hair.
Yellow eyes.
Shuzakh Men
Black, glossy skin with red to orange stripes or spots.
Hairless.
Black eyes.
Tikalg Men
Pale gray, downy skin.
White crest of long, curling feathers instead of hair.
Yellow eyes.
Vhaashti Men
Violet to indigo skin.
Black, straight hair with iridescent highlights.
Iridescent green or blue-green eyes.
Viisstri Men
Gray skin.
Gray to black lank hair.
White, gray or yellow eyes.
Vlesh Men
Light to Dark green skin.
Ribbed crest like that of a dimetrodon instead of hair.
Yellow eyes.
Zhermish Men
Bright green skin
Many men are hairless.
Yellow to green hair that is woolly to wavy.
Blue to green eyes.
Zhaghri Men
Pumpkin orange to amber skin
Curly black hair.
Women have ample posteriors.
Black eyes.
Zhaxxi Men
Silver skin.
Black, gray, silver or white hair.
Pink eyes.
Random Racial Determination Table (d30)
1 - Agog Man
3 - Azgukh Man
4 - Barshi Man
5 - Bone Man
6 - Dhazzhi Man
7 - Earth Man
8 - Gresh Man
9 - Haasht Man
10 - Hyperborean Man
11 - Jhagkhi Man
12 - Kherulhi Man
13 - Khoolvi Man
14 - Lhovhami Man
15 - Lhoyg Man
16 - Mhoght Man
17 - Morheeg Man
18 - Nire Witch
19 - Ohlvidhi Man
20 - Shuzakh Man
21 - Tikalg Man
22 - Vhaashti Man
23 - Viisstri Man
24 - Vlesh Man
25 - Zhermish Man
26 - Zhaghri Man
27 - Zhaxxi Man
28-30 - Nonhuman or reroll
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