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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7916612" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17319/MC6-Monstrous-Compendium-KaraTur-Appendix-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">MC6 Monstrous Compendium Kara-Tur Appendix</a>2eChu-U, Legless Ghost: If travelers agree to listen, the chu-u relates the story of its life as a human. The story is always sad and is told in great detail, beginning with the bad decisions the chu-u made as a child, continuing through its sorrowful experiences as an adult, and ending with the circumstances of its death, usually the result of cowardice or ineptitude.They were neither virtuous enough to pass the judges' examinations nor malevolent enough to merit additional sentencing.Con-Tinh: The malicious con-tinh is a lesser spirit believed to be the spirit of a maiden who died before her time.According to legend, the Celestial Bureaucracy creates a con-tinh from the spirit of a young maiden who has died before her time, usually as a result of a misdeed. The most common misdeed is an illicit love affair, which ends when the maiden is murdered by a rival or jealous spouse. On rare occasions, sisters who conspired in the same misdeed both become con-tinh, their lifeforces tied to identical, adjacent trees.Gaki, Nin-Chu-Jugaki: Gaki are lesser spirits derived from the wicked, who have returned to the Prime Material Plane in the form of horrible monsters as punishment for their sins. The name "gaki" refers to a variety of such spirits. They are also known as the "nin-chu-jugaki."The type of gaki depends on the nature of the crimes committed in the spirit's former life.Jiki-Ketsu-Gaki: Jiki-ketsu-gaki are corrupted spirits of priests or other holy men who were guilty of heresy in their former lives.Jiki-Niku-Gaki: Jiki-niku-gaki are corrupted spirits of humans or humanoids who were guilty of excessive avarice in their former lives. Greedy merchants and miserly moneylenders often become these ghoulish, repulsive monsters.Shikki-Gaki: Most shikki-gaki are the corrupted spirits of irresponsible medical personnel or negligent servants. But about 15% once were lesser nature spirits that inhabited mushrooms or other fungi sprouting from the trunks of decaying trees. These nature spirits completely succumbed to their evil aspect. Usually, they developed a taste for bluebirds, butterflies, or similarly docile creatures. The Celestial Bureaucracy warned them to stop, but they persisted. As a result, they were destroyed and reborn as a mushroom shikki-gaki.Shinen-Gaki: Shinen-gaki may originate from the spirit of any wicked human, but often they're created from the spirit of a traitorous or cowardly soldier.Kuei: A lesser spirit of the dead, the kuei is a manifestation of a human or humanoid who died by violence unavenged or with a purpose unfulfilled. The spirit's former body was not buried.Memedi Djim: Djim are spirits of deceased priests, typically appearing as elderly, bald men wearing long prayer robes.Memedi Uwil: Uwil are derived from the spirit of dead sohei.Ghoul: ?Groaning Spirit: ?Skeleton: ?Zombie: ?Shadow: ?Mummy: ?Spectre: ?Eastern Vampire: ?</blockquote>

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