Firedancer
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mhacdebhandia said:You're right about the grimlocks - they could easily fulfill the role of Lovecraftian ghouls, a la "Pickman's Model". In fact, remembering my favourite Lovecraft story makes me wonder if it wouldn't be fun to have the grimlocks steal children in exchange for their own offspring, the way Pickman painted his ghouls doing. Grimlock changelings . . . that's a scary thought.
I had originally envisioned grimlocks as raiding for some incomprehensible religious or ritual purpose, but perhaps part-and-parcel of their modus operandi could be abducting children, despoiling gravesites . . . it would provide a handy excuse for the PCs to have to deal with wights, since they're unlikely to disturb burial mounds themselves.
Quick suggestion, perhaps the Grimlocks are degenerating from inbreeding and constant breeding experiments from the yuan-ti. So you can apply a different smattering of templates as you see fit. Within Grimlock society there's a cabal who realise what's happening and to try to stabilse they look to their ancestry - human children are needed. Now being blind Grimlocks won't know the difference between human, aasimar or teifling, so now you have wierd sub-races of grimlocks.
A nod to Steven Erikson and the fate of the Toblokai in his series.