The caligni, previously known as dark folk (with the term now being considered racist in the setting, possibly reflecting real life) come to us in three variants - the dancer, a low-threat support, the creeper, a fairly standard rogueish type, and the stalker, whose encircling command ability is easily one of my favourites in the entire bestiary.
Deep beneath the city of Tanatolia, an ancient populace of sterile caligni has lived for centuries. Previously, they've never caused too much issues for the surface dwellers - an occasional prank or mugging getting overshadowed by the city's own criminal underground. Recently, though, the caligni have become the city's premier problem - breaking into homes and stealing babies from their cribs. An investigation leads to the disturbing discovery that they've made a pact with a dark entity, giving them the ability to create new members of their races by submerging human babies into the lifeless waters of an underground river...
Grothluk Paleblood is the leader of a mercenary war band, infamous in the darklands. In combat, the old warlord is known for yelling commands across the battlefield, positioning his troops perfectly across the battlefield, using terrain to its fullest advantage. In the rare cases when encountered outside of a war, he isn't above resorting to regular banditry either...
A mysterious entity has possessed the caligni shaman on the outskirts of the dwarven undercity of Globlum. This resulted in many young caligni growing up into previously unseen forms and roles, the most common being the seemingly mindless exploders, who sneak into settlements and set entire districts ablaze, and firespitters, who do not combust on death, but can spit out a substance that lights ablaze on contact with flesh.
While slaying the shaman to save the city is always an option, the dwarven king would prefer an exorcism to be performed, to restore friendly relations with the dark folk.
Deep beneath the city of Tanatolia, an ancient populace of sterile caligni has lived for centuries. Previously, they've never caused too much issues for the surface dwellers - an occasional prank or mugging getting overshadowed by the city's own criminal underground. Recently, though, the caligni have become the city's premier problem - breaking into homes and stealing babies from their cribs. An investigation leads to the disturbing discovery that they've made a pact with a dark entity, giving them the ability to create new members of their races by submerging human babies into the lifeless waters of an underground river...
Grothluk Paleblood is the leader of a mercenary war band, infamous in the darklands. In combat, the old warlord is known for yelling commands across the battlefield, positioning his troops perfectly across the battlefield, using terrain to its fullest advantage. In the rare cases when encountered outside of a war, he isn't above resorting to regular banditry either...
A mysterious entity has possessed the caligni shaman on the outskirts of the dwarven undercity of Globlum. This resulted in many young caligni growing up into previously unseen forms and roles, the most common being the seemingly mindless exploders, who sneak into settlements and set entire districts ablaze, and firespitters, who do not combust on death, but can spit out a substance that lights ablaze on contact with flesh.
While slaying the shaman to save the city is always an option, the dwarven king would prefer an exorcism to be performed, to restore friendly relations with the dark folk.
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