The Night Parade

Overview

Frightening in monstrous variety and ambition, the self named Night Parade consists of bizarre, otherworldly creatures that are out to infiltrate the cities of the Realms. These beings have no set racial form or standard powers, but all are clearly not mere humans or demihumans, and they all have at least some small amount of power in addition to any magic they might wield. Worse yet, their ultimate intentions and motivations are still quite obscure.
The only clear agenda of the Night Parade is to abduct human and demihuman infants. These grotesque creatures are unable to reproduce children, so they steal infants of other races and magically alter them into their own. The processes are either totally random or intentionally hideous in their results, for the transformed child rarely looks even remotely like the race that spawned it. The Night Parade members adopt and care for their newborns much like a normal family, and the transformed children no longer have any emotional or physical ties to their birth parents.
The Night Parade managed to build itself to a small degree within Calimport, and it also established a new colony of creatures within the shadowed alleys of Zallusan to the north and Nizwarin to the west. Since each cell is rarely larger than a dozen members, the discovery of one does not betray the existence of all. Below are a number of prominent Night Paraders who act as leaders among the various cells:
The Naga is little more than a male Calishite heard with a bushy beard on a giant snakes horrible body. He is known for his poison spray, is highly intelligent, and shares the leadership of his cell with his partner, Master Khanar.
A massive human frame, six foot six in height, Master Khanar is distinctive because he has no neck or head. His 10 eyes are at his fingertips and fanged mouths scream from his palms. His eyes are protected by muscles under hard clear skin and his great strength and hand mouths inflict serious damage with their bites. Master Khanar can speak through either of his mouths, but he often allows people to believe the Naga is his head, until the pair split and show they are separate creatures.
The Lady Seryx yr Tarub may have the rarest, most beautiful violet eyes of any child ever born in Calimshan, and she kept those eyes after her induction into the Night Parade. Now, those purple orbs peer from a scaled, alligatorlike head atop a vulture's body. Rather than feathers, the bird has scales and sharply scaled wings.
The most dangerous of all the Night Parade cell leaders looks like a normal dog, which begs for scraps throughout the city of Calimport. While Nadim the Hound easily adopts the traits of a common street mongrel, he is feared and respected by nearly every other Night Parader in Calimshan. When out of view of the public, he speaks in a cultured accent, walks upright on his hind legs, has opposable thumbs, and wields psionic powers with incredible power. However, most folk's fear stems from Nadim's temper, which is shorter than he is, and his cruelty is unbelievable when he thinks himself double-crossed.

Type

Secret, Occult