Plate 236b. Lemurial referred to as 'Tailseeker' in the journals of Avram Draz whose expedition to the Gray Wastes was unsuccessful.
Lemurial
No. Enc.: 1
Alignment: Neutral
Movement: 90' (30')
Armor Class: 5
Hit Dice: 3
Attacks: 1 (claw, weapon or spell)
Damage: 1d4, or by weapon or spell
Save: F2
Morale: 8
No. Enc.: 1
Alignment: Neutral
Movement: 90' (30')
Armor Class: 5
Hit Dice: 3
Attacks: 1 (claw, weapon or spell)
Damage: 1d4, or by weapon or spell
Save: F2
Morale: 8
Lemurials are ancient rivals and competitors with the Monikins whom they blame for the loss of their tails. According to Lemurial folklore, they once possessed the most magnificent tails but a wicked cabal of Monikin spell-casters cursed them to become tailless. The Monikins deny this, calling it an obtuse fable with no basis in reality.
Exceptional Lemurials advance as Magic-Users or Thieves.
Tailseeker does look sad, and more than a hint miffed as well.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very effective entry style, for being lean but suggestive - the image and the caption complement the open description very well, and the link to Monikins means the approach to each of the two groups can inspire or be woven into the other.
He has certainly seen better days. Glad you like the stripped-down style. I've been going over all the old entries and sorting them into various stacks and piles for inclusion in whichever pdf or other project and some of them will benefit greatly from being boiled-down a bit, with the extraneous lore or history or whatever getting transferred into a table or something. I like the Lemurials precisely because they make a good foil for the Monikins. They are also very gifted dreamers, so their interactions can lead into a variety of oneiric situations...
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