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The Hoarbog

Added 2025-07-27 03:26:33 +0000 UTC

In a band of cold mud and rotting trees to the north of Daklak lies the Hoarbog- resting place of Hotahn's ghostly slaves. Even now they remain there inhabiting the blackened fragments of forms they once knew in life.

From the moment their mortal bodies were slain by the Cruel Tiger, their spirits lost the connection to flesh yet were still connected to their birth-given blood and bone. As spirits in control of mortal vessels, their will was now utterly controlled by the demon master of ancient Daklak and remain in it's power today despite the beast's absence.

Today, these slave spirits continue waiting for their master's return but their vessels are corroded and in some cases only night dark corpse soil remains lingering in the air. However, the ghosts of Hoarbog are crafty indeed and capable of sloughing off their former coil in exchange for a more capable vehicle.

Despite the bog being filled with hungry ghosts, the time-worn spectres are relatively frail without a fresh body to control. Additionally, the ghosts are unable to easily inhabit their most favored form- that of a sharp minded human being.

One would do well to not fall asleep or imbibe alcohol anywhere near the bog- and be wary of curious sounds in the woodland, as the hungry dead are noted to lure new vessels to patches of fogwort mushrooms whose spore clouds are known to induce a state of blurring confusion upon the unwary traveler.