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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7300074" data-attributes="member: 2209">Kobold Quarterly 2<a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/50546/Kobold-Quarterly-2?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Kobold Quarterly 2</a>3.5Darrakh, Adult Darakhul Cave Dragon: The ravenous hunger and ambition that define the Empire of the Ghouls come from a hunting expedition 200 years ago. A priest of the Death God led a pack of ghouls and ghasts into the underdark in a hunt for new sources of meat. The hunters met and devoured a few of the weaker residents of the deep lands, but then met a horror they were woefully ill-prepared to fight, a cave dragon in its prime. Its darkness filled the tunnels, and its jaws devoured ghouls by the dozens.Strengthened the Death God’s blessing, one ghast struck a crucial blow with its paralyzing claw, and the dragon was rendered immobile for a dozen heartbeats. The frenzy that followed infected the dragon with ghoul fever. The rest of the ghouls and ghasts died before the dragon could be slain, but the priest of the Death God survived and became the ghoul-dragon’s minion and chief servant. The dragon grew powerful in undeath. Though its growth stopped, its power was greater than any others of its kind.So was born Darrakh, Father of Ghouls, the Great and Unending Devourer. Of all dragons below the earth, he is the greatest. He recieves ghoul petitioners in a deep cavern perpetually wrapped in darkness, and when he is displeased, he dines on the flesh of the ghouls, his followers and children.The cult of the Hunger God reveres him as an avatar of their deity, an earthly manifestion of the endless gnawing need that drives ghouls to consume corpses. Darrakh is fast, tough, and powerful — and as an undead dragon, extremely lethal.As he created ghoul followers, Darrakh and the priest learned that the form of ghoul fever the dragon carried was magically strengthened. Darrakh has always claimed he bathed in the River Styx and struck a bargain with Charon the boatman. The terms seemed to be that to return to the mortal world, he would raise up a race of followers of the Death God. That story is among the secret lore of the Imperial priesthoods. It’s truth depends on what one thinks of the veracity of the undead and the trustworthiness of dragons. Most are sure it’s sheer puffery.Darakhul Ghoul: Darakhul Fever (Su): Magical disease—bite, Fortitude DC 30, incubation period 1 hour, damage 1d6 Con and 1d3 Dex. Requires a DC 16 level check to cure magically. A creature which dies while infected with darakhul fever may become a more powerful form of ghoul (see Empire of the Ghouls for details).</blockquote>

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