The Meat Hooked

Basic Information

Anatomy

Flesh flayed, eyes lidless, mind broken, and soul lacking; the Meat Hooked are victims of fiendish or eldritch cults or they may be the cultists themselves. Though they appear to be undead in nature or constructs of flesh with their own skin worn like clothing about them, they are very much still alive in a physical sense of the term.

Genetics and Reproduction

The only way Meat Hooks make more Meat Hooks is through abduction, indoctrination, and subjugation. Only through this torturous cycle does the affliction spread.

Growth Rate & Stages

Typically a cultist, or a victim of a cultist, receives a "blessing" from who or whatever eldritch patron the cult worships in the form of an immunity to pain. Instead pain becomes a sense of pleasure, both in inflicting and receiving, and slowly but surely what was once a person degrades into the mindless and senseless Meat Hooked.

Ecology and Habitats

Typically found in urban environments but hidden away from the world in more cthonic dwellings such as sewers or in dungeons.

Dietary Needs and Habits

They have need for food, though they may theoretically starve to death. The primal compulsion and hunger that most animals possess has been utterly erased from their psyche, all that remains is the pleasure derived from physical pain.

Biological Cycle

The life expectance from the Meat Hooked is most likely the same as that it held in life, though many live much shorter lives than that either finally succumbing to their own self-inflicted injuries or from a Templar that is seeking to purge them.

Behaviour

Any sense of sanity, sentience, or consciousness is lost from these beings. They seek not sustenance nor shelter, but only the pleasure brought about from physical pain. Clubs, knives, and whips are instruments of joy upon them; and the only cure for their condition is freedom that death provides. Though only death through more magical or at least unorthodox means is the only way to put these wretches to rest, such as spells or enchanted weaponry.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Many Meat Hooked develop a sense of Darkvision during their torturous hours as part of their blessing. In addition many gain a sense of hysterical strength and an immunity to most non-magical damage, in fact nonmagical damage heals them to a certain extent.

Conservation Status

They are a heretic, and therefore considered "subhuman" and to be purged before their taint spreads

Geographic Distribution

• The Freelands
• The Shadowfell

Related Ethnicities

• Avalonian
• Beastfolk
• Dweller
• Freelancer