Posted by Sevietrem on September 22, 1999 at 04:40:07:
Name Nightgaunts I like the part about avoiding direct confrontation.
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Type Lesser Servitor Race
Description ' ... Shocking and uncouth black things with smooth, oily, whale like surfaces, unpleasant horns that curved inward toward each other, bat wings whose beating made no sound, ugly prehensile paws, and barbed tails that lashed needlessly and disquietingly. And worst of all, they never spoke or laughed, and never smiled because they had no faces al all to smile with, but only a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be. All they ever did was clutch and fly and tickle; that was the way of the nightgaunts.' -The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, by H.P. Lovecraft
Cults None
Information Nightgaunts serve Nodens, and grapple their foe, carrying them off to be dumped in the most dismal isolated places. Nightgaunts are stationed at various places around the world to guard over places, but they never come out during daylight. They are not very intelligent, but can understand the glibbering of Ghouls, and are friendly to some occult races. Nightgaunts always attempt to sneak up on their victims, and try to avoid direct confrontation if at all possible.