Pereque Drowner
A drowner is a menacing, grotesque creature that haunts watery places such as swamps, lakes and rivers. These monstrous beings rise from the corpses of people who met a watery death, by drowning or by other means.1
It is said that drowners first came from Lake Pereque. Legend holds that where no one has ever drowned in a lake, there can be no drowner.1
Appearance
The drowner's long, sinewy limbs end in webbed, claw-like hands, well suited to seizing unwary victims and dragging them beneath the surface. Tattered shreds of clothing, remnants of its former life, still cling to its deformed body. It gives off a foul stench of decay and stagnant water, and it makes a guttural, eerie gurgling, a haunting echo of the death it died.1
A drowner understands Empirian, the common tongue, but it does not speak.1
Notes
- ↑BookShadow Over Vansreik, p. 221
Sources
This article draws on:
- SoVShadow Over Vansreik(Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 221
Images in this article
Shadow Over Vansreik (Bad Badger Games, 2024), p. 221. Art by the Bad Badger Games team.
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