Atlantean Trilogy Archive
A hooded summoner raises a holy symbol as a winged demon and a horned devil rise from smoke in a fiery circle, elementals swirling above.

Ghoul

Summoned creature, Undead

A corporeal undead that performs one task.

From the book

The ghoul is a corporeal undead. It has a level of ability of 3 and a Will of 3. Summoned, it will perform any single service. Necromancers can also create standard corporeal undead such as skeletons, ghouls and wights by ritual, spending a week per level of the creature and gathering grisly materials from graveyards, battlefields and gibbets.

Like all undead it comes from the shadow realms bordering Hades and the Abyss, hating the living and feeding on their life energy; any undead met in a deserted place has a 50% chance of being crazed with hunger and will attack whatever the odds. Every undead dreads the power of good, and priests or mystics can turn them. Necromancers and witchdoctors can call one of lower level than themselves with Summon Undead, which needs the circle and triangle but no offering.

At a glance

Level of ability
3
Will score
3
Services
Will perform any single service