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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8988004" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/370999/Latin-American-Monsters-5E?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Latin American Monsters (5E)</a></p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Carreta Nagua:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Guecubu:</strong> Often when a particularly evil criminal is executed, suspicious folk fear that the criminal’s remains might rise from death to continue to plague the living. To combat this possibility, many mobs or rural justices take to the practice of burning the bodies, grinding the bones, and scattering the remains in the wild. Yet in the case of particularly evil criminals, even these steps are in vain, for their will is enough to reassemble a body from earth, stone, roots, and plants drawn from the region into which the remains were scattered. </p><p><strong>Huecuva, Risen Corpse of a Heretical Priest Who Blasphemed and Renounced Their Faith Before Meeting Death, Typical Huecuva:</strong> Huecuvas are the risen corpses of heretical priests who blasphemed and renounced their deities before meeting death.</p><p><strong>Jarjacha:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Jinete de Tormento:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Llorona:</strong> They form as the result of shame and sorrow paired with a tragic drowning of a child, whether it be accidental or murderously intentional, and they want others to share in their pain and misery. </p><p><strong>Sayona, Weeping Vampire:</strong> Stories of their origins claim that the first sayona was a vain woman who grew old and whose lover left her for a younger paramour; the woman avenged herself by bathing in the blood of her lover’s children, then killed herself. Doomed to undeath, she wanders the world crying tears of blood and preying on beautiful young women—slaying them, stealing their beauty, and transforming them into ghastly undead fiends to forever share her fate. </p><p><strong>Sinslain Minion:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Tlahuelpuchi:</strong> The feared and respected tlahuelpuchi are a relative random occurrence. A humanoid that is at the cusp of adulthood might become a tlahuelpuchi within the span of days, losing their humanity and becoming dangerous and deceitful monsters that must eat flesh to live. </p><p><strong>Tzitzimitl:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zuvembie:</strong> Most zuvembies willingly performed the vile rituals to attain vengeance through unlife, but the transformation can also be wrought upon a helpless victim. </p><p><strong>Guecubu, Undead Horror, Harbinger of Misfortune and Vengeance From Beyond the Grave:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Jarjacha, Curious Creature, Oversized Two-Headed Llama With Long Necks, Beast of Judgment:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Jinete de Tormento, Undead Spirit, Rider of Torment, Avatar of Death:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Llorona, Vengeful Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Sayona, Powerful Intelligent Undead Creature, Ghastly Undead Fiend:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Tlahuelpuchi, Dangerous Deceitful Monster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Tzitzimitl, Immense Four-Armed Skeleton, Enigmatic Creature of Darkness:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zuvembie, Withered Animated Corpse:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ethereal Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Forlorn Ghost of the Village:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost, Common Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton Minion:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeletal Horse:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Reckless Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, True Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Will-o'-Wisp:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8988004, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/370999/Latin-American-Monsters-5E?affiliate_id=17596]Latin American Monsters (5E)[/URL] 5e [b]Carreta Nagua:[/b] ? [b]Guecubu:[/b] Often when a particularly evil criminal is executed, suspicious folk fear that the criminal’s remains might rise from death to continue to plague the living. To combat this possibility, many mobs or rural justices take to the practice of burning the bodies, grinding the bones, and scattering the remains in the wild. Yet in the case of particularly evil criminals, even these steps are in vain, for their will is enough to reassemble a body from earth, stone, roots, and plants drawn from the region into which the remains were scattered. [b]Huecuva, Risen Corpse of a Heretical Priest Who Blasphemed and Renounced Their Faith Before Meeting Death, Typical Huecuva:[/b] Huecuvas are the risen corpses of heretical priests who blasphemed and renounced their deities before meeting death. [b]Jarjacha:[/b] ? [b]Jinete de Tormento:[/b] ? [b]Llorona:[/b] They form as the result of shame and sorrow paired with a tragic drowning of a child, whether it be accidental or murderously intentional, and they want others to share in their pain and misery. [b]Sayona, Weeping Vampire:[/b] Stories of their origins claim that the first sayona was a vain woman who grew old and whose lover left her for a younger paramour; the woman avenged herself by bathing in the blood of her lover’s children, then killed herself. Doomed to undeath, she wanders the world crying tears of blood and preying on beautiful young women—slaying them, stealing their beauty, and transforming them into ghastly undead fiends to forever share her fate. [b]Sinslain Minion:[/b] ? [b]Tlahuelpuchi:[/b] The feared and respected tlahuelpuchi are a relative random occurrence. A humanoid that is at the cusp of adulthood might become a tlahuelpuchi within the span of days, losing their humanity and becoming dangerous and deceitful monsters that must eat flesh to live. [b]Tzitzimitl:[/b] ? [b]Zuvembie:[/b] Most zuvembies willingly performed the vile rituals to attain vengeance through unlife, but the transformation can also be wrought upon a helpless victim. [b]Guecubu, Undead Horror, Harbinger of Misfortune and Vengeance From Beyond the Grave:[/b] ? [b]Jarjacha, Curious Creature, Oversized Two-Headed Llama With Long Necks, Beast of Judgment:[/b] ? [b]Jinete de Tormento, Undead Spirit, Rider of Torment, Avatar of Death:[/b] ? [b]Llorona, Vengeful Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Sayona, Powerful Intelligent Undead Creature, Ghastly Undead Fiend:[/b] ? [b]Tlahuelpuchi, Dangerous Deceitful Monster:[/b] ? [b]Tzitzimitl, Immense Four-Armed Skeleton, Enigmatic Creature of Darkness:[/b] ? [b]Zuvembie, Withered Animated Corpse:[/b] ? [b]Undead, Undead Creature:[/b] ? [b]Ethereal Undead:[/b] ? [b]Forlorn Ghost of the Village:[/b] ? [b]Ghost, Common Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton Minion:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Skeletal Horse:[/b] ? [b]Reckless Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, True Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Will-o'-Wisp:[/b] ? [b]Zombie:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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