FUDGE: Goblyns

Magic

To make magic I will use the system of Four by Five Magic of Stefan O'Sullivan, since I see it sufficiently complete and at the same time open for my necessities. Also, since I will use the system of characters of Five Point FUDGE, it is very appropriate.

To make magic in this setting, all (or almost) the potential Wizards will have at least one level of the gift of Crystal Magic. This gift is a form of manipulating the magic but you don't power it with an internal mana, owned by the wizard, but with the mana that the crystals of magic possess. From a point of view it is an inferior gift to that of Scholarly Magic of Four by Five Magic: the gift of Scholarly Magic of 4x5 Magic, gives an amount of mana points to the Wizard of 3 per each level of the gift that he possesses. On the other hand the gift of Crystal Magic allows, without giving the wizard his own mana, to manipulate (to spend) a maximum of 3 points of crystal mana per level of the gift, per round.

And what's the advantage? In Five Point FUDGE you need the a level of the gift of Scholarly Magic for each character's point that you dedicate to magic skills, but the gift of Crystal Magic doesn't have that initial limitation. The wizard will be able to manipulate more or less mana per round but his ability to make it is merely learned stuff.

Example: a wizard with two levels of Crystal Magic will be able to spend 2 x 3 = 6 points of crystal mana per round, and not more. A wizard with three levels 3 x 3 could spend = 9 points of mana per round, and so forth.

It is for that reason that to make magic it is required to have magic crystals which provide that mana and that are harvested in the depths of the earth, and which wear out little by little as they are used. The crystals exist in 5 basic ranges of colors, associated to the 5 Realms of the 4x5 Magic system; the red crystals are associated to the Realm of Energy, the green to that of Body, the light blue to that of Mind, the purple to Spirit and the white ones to Matter.

A tricky question, if Everdark is wrapped in darkness and its inhabitants use infravision to manage (although they sometimes use sources of ordinary light), how do they see the colors of the crystals? It is simple. The magic crystals (and many other non magic crystals, but they usually confuse some careless wizards) shine with a delicate fluorescent light, of the color associated to the corresponding Realm. They don't give enough light to see (just a barely visible shining, practically only when you touch them), but yet is enough as that they shine in the perpetual grey of the infravision. The exception are the crystals associated to the Realm of Energy that give off heat giving a halo of grey light to the infravision besides shining with delicate reddish light.

Yes, there is a similarity between the colors of the magic crystals and the goblyns' colors of skin. In fact the skin colors are due to the long exposure to the magic of the crystals, since the locations of each type are usually found only in a place type. And as they are crystals, they grow. The red crystals are usually found in the biggest depths in the earth, and near volcanic lakes and similar places. The green crystals are near the surface, growing in the roof near the roots of the few trees that reach so deep. The blue crystals grow near important sources of water, or even in the bottom of the underground lakes. The purple grows in natural creatures' cemeteries of Everdark, or in forests of giant mushrooms or underground mosses... and in very solitary caverns or abandoned ruins. And lastly, the white ones grow near locations of minerals, metals or gems, hard or volcanic rocks, and they are usually in the goblyns mines (if you find minerals, probably you'll find white crystals, and vice versa).

As the crystals are used to make magic, there is a probability that their potential magic wears out a little. Not all the crystals have the same raw quantity of magic, being measured with the usual scale of FUDGE; for example, a Good red crystal. According to the potential of the crystal, it will have a bigger or smaller quantity of mana points reflected in the following table:

Also, lets see the cost of mana required according to the difficulty of a spell in the following table (it differs in a point of mana in all the cases, with respect to the standard fixed in 4x5 Magic):

For a character with the gift of Magic to perceive a crystal like magical he must pass a roll of Sense Energy with difficulty equal to the level of the crystal multiplied by -1. This use of the ability doesn't count as an spell as such, but as an ability of Perception, reason why it doesn't cost mana neither it doesn't matter if you botch the roll (except the case in wich you possibly consider as magical a rolling stone... and when you want to use it it won't be amusing).

Example: a Poor crystal (value -2 in FUDGE) it requires a difficulty of +2 (Great in FUDGE).

This is caused because there are many crystals without effective power that shine in the same way that magic crystals. To distinguish them it is necessary to perceive the magic that they possess.

The manna required to cast a spell is not obligatory to be paid fully of only one crystal. You can accumulate crystals of the same type to be able to cast powerful spells, even with crystals of a Realm of magic different than the Realm involved in the spell (although it is possible that in this case the crystal gets damaged). Nevertheless, paying the cost of mana of a spell with several crystal has an inconvenience that makes still preferable to have powerful crystals. Using several crystals of the same Realm for a spell counts as if the total mana involved was 1 point greater than normal, in order to determine the numbers or round needed by the wizard to cast it (with what wizards with the gift of Crystal Magic at low level may find their spells slowed up to the point of 1 full round or more). If we use crystals of another Realm, the total mana involved is 3 points higher counts, and if we use both crystals of the same Realm and crystals of another Realm(s), the total mana involved is 5 points higher.

Anyway it is necessary to remember that the wizard will be able to spend only his maximum of mana each round, and in successive rounds he'll be able to spend the remaining quantity of mana of the crystal (or crystals) necessary to cast the spell. The wizard will make the skill roll associated to the spell as soon as he has paid the price in mana required in the successive rounds.

Another example: a wizard has only a level of Crystal Magic and that for he can only spend a maximum 1 x 3 = 3 points of mana of crystals per round; he tries to cast on himsefl a Haste spell (Enhance Body) to get rid of some marauding kobolds that are looking for him in a forest of mushrooms where he's hidden (difficulty of the spell: Great). Fortunately for him, he possesses a Superb Green crystal that will give him mana more than enough associated to the Realm of Body to power the spell. The first round he spends 3 points of necessary mana out of 5; the second round only 2 (of its maximum of 3), leaving in the crystal a remainder of 2 points of mana. At this time he rolls for his ability of Enhance Body and he's able to cast the spell with success. Just on time, he breaks into a run at double his normal speed leaving very far away the wild kobolds...

Let's suppose that this wizard didn't have that crystal of Excellent quality, but only one of Poor quality, two of Terrible quality and a crystal of Good quality but of the Realm of Energy. If he uses all the Body crystals he has enough to pay the cost of total mana (3 + 1 + 1 = 5), but the fictitious total when managing mana for round is 6 (5 + 1 to use more than a Body crystal). In this case he doesn't mind it, because he needs two rounds in both cases to cast a spell with cost 5 or cost 6, given his only level of Crystal Magic.

If instead of using one of the Terrible Body crystals he used the good quality Energy crystal, he'd also have all the required manna (3 + 1 + 1 = 5). We see in this case that the Energy crystal spends all its mana and also suffers a Drain roll. But those aren't all the bad news, the fictitious total of mana to effects of time is now 10 (5 + 5 due to use additional Body crystals and one of another Realm), what makes him spend two additional rounds since he can only manage a total of 3 points of mana for rounds.

If a wizard casts an spell but fails the roll, it is forced a Drain roll of the crystal which has contributed the most to the total mana spent in the spell (in the case of a tie, chose it at random). You roll 4DF and if the result is less than 0 the crystal losses a level of quality. Also, the spell fails, of course.

If the wizard doesn't only fail the spell but rather he fumbles it, the crystal (we choose it like if the spell had been failed and not fumbled) loses a level of quality automatically and it is also forced a Drain roll. Not to mention the adverse effects that the used magic can make fall on the wizard...

As we've seen before, a crystal used for powering a spell of another Realm has only 1 point of mana available for that spell, independently of its quality in its associate Realm. Also, using it this way makes it suffer a Drain roll, additional to the one that corresponds to the main crystal involved if the wizard fails the spell.

The crystals recover mana with time, till the maximum of their current capacity. The rate to which they recover it will determine a lot the power of magic in this setting, together with the quantity of available crystals. My advice is a moderate readiness of crystals (they are difficult to find) and a time of recovery of a point of mana every 5-10 minutes (between 60 and 120 rounds of combat of 5 seconds).

An alternative: if you want a world with less or more magic, you have just to adjust to your pleasure the points of fictitious mana that offer the levels of the gift of Crystal Magic, or the mana that the crystals offer, or the cost of mana according to the spell to cast, or lastly, the rate of recovery of mana of the crystals.

An additional note: fire magic in this underground world can end up being very dangerous... if a fire spell is cast in a narrow passageway, it can waste away a great quantity of oxygen very quickly, what will cause serious sickness to all the presents (in several occasions in the wars of in the past, astute goblyn wizards eliminated very superior forces suffocating them that way...).

• The red crystals associated to the Realm of Energy give off heat while there is still a spark of magic in them. In fact they are as lighthouses in the eternal night of Everdark for its creatures with thermal vision. As they wear out they get more and more cool.

• The white crystals of Matter when found they are perfect, but they crack and crumble as their magic is drained.

• The blue crystals of Mind belittle when they lose their power, till they disappear.

• The purple crystals of Spirit lose their color until becoming transparent when their magic is depleted.

• The green crystals of Body lose their color, getting blackened as its power dissapears.

Goblyn deities

The goblyns have a long list of gods that have guided and protected them (up to a point) along the centuries. Nevertheless, in the current era and given the catastrophic time that has just finished, and the resettling that the goblyns are trying to carry out, four of among that gods have almost become the most popular in the usually practical goblyns. Those gods, for order of adoration and influence, are:

• Tuilelaith

  Also known as the Lady of Abundance, the Lady of the Protecting Darkness, and the Wind of the Caverns. It is the most popular deity because her dedication is complete toward her children, the goblyns. She sponsors activities like helping the weakest goblyns, the medical arts, the provision of means so that the goblyn race survives, the defense, etc. Though she is a protective deity who provides the goblyns with the vital necessities for their survival, in combat against the enemies of her children she can be ferocious and implacable. The darkness can be at the same time protecting, and contain destruction forces...

  Her priests don't have any restriction, and inside the group of Divine Magic skills, they can choose besides the normal divine skills and powers, any medical skill (for example, First Aid, Medicine, Herb Lore, etc), and/or any agricultural or livestock skill that can feed the children of Tuilelaith.

• Cyra

  Also known as the Lady of the Life Cycle and the Lady of Life and Death. It is also a very popular deity because she is the patroness of the goblyns' cycle of life. The goblyns believes in reincarnation, and while their species don't disappear, they don't have an "excessive" fear to death. They know (or they believe) that sooner or later they'll be embodied in this world again. For this same reason, Cyra is the enemy of everything that is neither alive or dead, but in an intermediate state of undeath that is an offense to what she represents. In fact Cyra is the only deity of the goblyn pantheon that grants to her faithful the power of repel the undead.

  Besides thar, she sponsors activities like helping the goblyns to live full lives no matter the limitations that the life poses to them, healing the wounded and sick and comforting the dying.

  Her priests have as restriction that they can be only women, because as the Lady of the Life Cycle women are the only ones who perpetuate the species in the cycle (in fact, to become a Great Priestess of Cyra the candidates have to have had at least a child before being able to opt to that position). They are also the only goblyn priests that can have the skill of Repel undead (in the Divine Magic skills group).

  Finally, a fault of the priestesses of Cyra is that they have the vow of destroying all the undead they can.

• Goibne

  Also known as the Blacksmith and the Lord of the Forge. It is popular because he is the patron of all that goblyns manufacture or build. It is very popular among the Witch Engineers and among the goblyns of the Builder guild.

  He sponsors all type of craftmanship and construction activities, exhorting his faithful to improve more and more till they reach perfection. It is the one that guides the goblyns to expand and build more settlements and to recover and reconstruct those that they lost.

  His priests don't have any restriction, and inside the Divine Magic skills group they can choose besides the normal divine skills and powers, any craftmansship or construction kill that they want (for example, Armorer, Smithy, Masonry, etc)

• Cathaoir

  Also known as the Invincible, the Master of Weapons and the Berserker. It is popular in the current era because he is a fierce warrior always lusting for battle and the squashing of enemies, and at this moment the goblyns have many enemies. Probably if the world wasn't upside down, it would not be so worshiped neither so tolerated, although in battle his priests are very necessary given their exceptional martial skills combined with their fanatic zeal and divine powers.

  He sponsors war, battles, the elimination of every enemy of the goblyns species (it is not very tolerant... some sages fear that if the goblyns didn't have enemies Cathaoir would try to make them to fight each other) and the constant training to reach perfection in combat.

  His priests don't have any restriction, and inside the Divine magic skills group they can choose besides the normal divine skills and powers, any combat ability they want.

  A fault of the priests of Cathaoir is that they are Intolerant, they usually hate to death those non-goblyn species. A "gift" they have is that they never feel fear or losses of moral in battle. What for? Cathaoir will return them to life if they are warriors brave and skillful!

Let's talk now about some other main races that inhabit Everdark.

Note: we won't add scale to both OF and DF, because there is at least a creature able to change its scale. Besides, some creatures have a scale so huge, that the OF and DF they have look so terrible when we add their scale!

• Kobolds

  "If you hear them come, then they aren't kobolds" (Kefketor the scout, paraphrasing a a goblyn anonymous quote)

  The kobolds are small (Scale -1) hairy goblynoids (for further protection in the hostile underground territories) with a certain aspect between canine and rodent. Their size can cause that them to be underestimated, but it is not a sensible decision because they are fierce warriors. Although they are quite nomadic, they are good miners and they know the forge and wrought techniques well and that allows them to manufacture good and durable weapons. In the war they are stealthy and they like attacking with overwhelming numeric superiority, besides not being above those convenient and useful tactics of war like ambushes or the placement of traps.

  They usually have more or less permanent settlements (maybe the word is recurrent) in the ruins of some abandoned goblyn cities, where they prosper in great number. They have a quite organized society although neither by chance as much as the goblyns'. They are in definitive a slightly primitive group of nomads with access to technology a little more advanced of what might be infered, and that takes advantage every opportunity they can to expand and prosper.

  Their hearing is able to perceive ultrasonic tones, and their throats are able to produce delicate yelps, whistles and grunts in a guttural language that although it is relatively simple, has a great reach in the underground world and that few goblynoid creatures are also able to hear. In fact they use it to communicate when they try to surround or to ambush, with great success. To counteract that ability the goblyns use as guardian pets (mainly in their patrols) a kind of giant rats of the underground world that are able to hear the ultrasonic whistles of the kobolds and then to warn to their goblyn masters. There is also some exceptional goblyns with a hearing sharp enough to listen those tones.

  And lastly we can say that kobolds have witch doctors, with enough knowledge of Crystal Magic to make spells, but there are few and there are even less witch doctors with enough ability as to invoke spells of Superb level. They also possess shamans with powers granted by their specific deities. What doesn't exist are kobolds that emulate the skills of the goblyn Witch Engineers.

  Average kobold marauder
  

  Atributes
  Reasoning	fair
  Perception	fair
  Willpower	fair
  Strength	fair
  Agility	good
  Health	good
  Scale	-1

  
  

  Skills
  2H spear or short sword	good	OF +3 or +2, both edged
  Parry with weapon	fair
  Dodge	good
  Observation	good
  Track	good

  
  

  Gifts

  Ultrasonic hearing

  
  

  Equipment
  Hide or leather armor	DF +1
  Appropriate weapons

  
  
• Knolls

  "They seem idiots, but they combat well... well, actually, they are idiots" (Fuzz the scout fleeing)

  The knolls are a subspecies of the kobolds, much bigger, (Scale +1, Strength +1 with a maximum Superb level at the start, Intelligence -1), strong and savage. They also have an animal aspect, although their features are more marked, with powerful canine jaws. They are as hairy as the kobolds but they cover with skins of animals of Everdark and with armor pieces they have managed to scavenge somewhere around. They are less organized, very chaotic, and their bands are very not very numerous (mainly compared with the kobolds, since they reproduce much more slowly) and more retarded culturally (they have the automatic fault of Primitive). They don't have nor forge neither smithy knowledge, depending on basic weapons as bone or stone clubs, wooden lances of giant mushrooms, or metal weapons manufactured by other races that invariably will wear away or will get ruined without another alternative.

  They are much more nomadic that the kobolds, also living with preference in small abandoned cities as recurrent establishments. They follow the game wherever they go, and if they can take advantage of the weakest races they don't doubt to do it (for example, ambushing a small party of weakly armed goblyns, or to a group of kobold scouts). Fortunately they have lost the ability of the ultrasonic language (whistle) of their smaller cousins, because they are much more belligerent that them and they would have many opportunities to use it, although given their worst intelligence, probably they wouldn't take out enough profit to that valuable gift.

  There aren't (at the moment, maybe) knolls able to use Crystal Magic, but they have shamanes with powers granted by their savage deities.

  They sometimes work with other races (never with goblyns). If they work with kobolds, at least they should have a proportion from 4 to 1 against them to have an unstable alliance, but an alliance after all. If there are too few kobolds, they will take control until either the kobolds decides to escape or get stronger, although they can decide to continue at their service if the knoll leader is sufficiently successful.

  Average knoll warrior
  

  Atributes
  Reasoning	mediocre
  Perception	fair
  Willpower	fair
  Strength	good
  Agility	good
  Health	good
  Scale	+1

  
  

  Skills
  Heavy 2H mace	good	OF +3 bludgeoning
  Parry with mace	good
  Dodge	fair
  Observation	fair

  
  

  Faults

  Primitive

  
  

  Equipment
  Hide or leather armor	DF +1
  Heavy stone mace

  
  
• Gremlins

  "I hope Goibne curses them forever!" (Krash the priest of Goibne checking the damages at the temple)

  Gremlins is an species of tiny goblyns (scale -3), but with malicious and harmful intentions. They have an innate knack with any mechanical contraption, prefering the ones built by the ingenious goblyns... anyway their affinity is more destructive than constructive. They innately know where they have to push, pull or break to make a machine, no matter how simple or complex, gets utterly ruined.

  Their skin is of a soft bluish-purple color, and their features even more angled than normal goblyns. Their intelligence isn't very high (-1 to Intelligence) but they don't need it to sabotage any machine. They tend to act in small packs of around 5 to allow them ruin any set of machines they can quickly, and then flee in the confusion that follows.

  They tend to live normally in hidden places, feeding with mosses or small mushrooms, but as soon as they have the chance to get into a goblyn city, they try (given their small size, they don't find it very hard).

  Gremlins are hermaphroditic, they don't have two sexual genders. They don't live long lifes (besides, as soon as a gremlin plague is detected on a goblyn city, they try by anything mean necessary to terminate them). As an aditional note, it is said of someone very good in combat "You dodge like a gremlin"; in truth, their dodge is legendary... (literally).

  Average gremlin
  

  Atributes
  Reasoning	poor
  Perception	good
  Willpower	fair
  Strength	fair
  Agility	superb
  Health	good
  Scale	-3

  
  

  Skills
  Camouflage	superb
  Move quietly	superb
  Infiltrate	superb
  Sabotage	great
  Dodge	legendary

  
  

  Gifts

  Tough hide

  Quick reflexes

  
  

  Faults

  Primitives

  Reduced health leves, OK, Hurt, KO

  
  
• Spriggans

  "The bigger they are, the harder is their fall" (Mardekk the weaponmaster, haranguing his troops)

  The spriggans are more a type of monsters that a social creature as such. They are very dangerous, mainly for people that ignores their skills... They seem to be a type of gremlins with soft purple colored skin, tiny as them (Scale -3), but they aren't. They have the power of increasing their size till Scale +3 (whoah... and also in only 1 combat round), and they usually possess extra strength besides which their increased mass provides to them (Strength Good or Great, usually). They are also resistant (they possess the gift of Tough Hide), they ignore pain as if it was nothing (they possess the gift of Pain Tolerance), they are resistant to magic (they possess the gift of Magic Resistance), and their reflexes are extraordinary (they possess the gift of Quick Reflexes).

  They are a little silly (-1 to Intelligence) and retarded culturally (they have automatically the fault of Primitive), but since there are very few it is not strange they haven't developed a true society. The maximum that you do usually find is one or two together at the same time, unless somebody powerful uses them like shocktroops force or spies / saboteurs.

  They live usually solitary lives, although sometimes someone infiltrates (thanks to their small size mainly) in other more organized beings' camps to steal food, things of value (or valuable in appearance to the spriggan... or that he simply likes), or for simple malice to cause chaos... and they usually get it.

  As a final detail, spriggans are hermaphroditic, like the gremlins, perhaps to solve the problem of their low numbers. Finally, a Great roll of Arcane Lore or Legend Lore is needed to find the differences between a gremlin and a spriggan still on its normal form and size.

  Average spriggan
  

  Atributes
  Reasoning	poor
  Perception	good
  Willpower	fair
  Strength	good
  Agility	good
  Health	good
  Scale	-3 to +3

  
  

  Skills
  Brawl	great	OF +1 (edged, with claws)
  Dodge	great

  
  

  Gifts

  Tough hide

  Pain tolerance

  Magic resistance

  Quick reflexes

  
  

  Faults

  Primitive

  
  
• Constructs

  The old vanguard of the extinct goblyn army was formed by the powerful constructs. These magical machines powered by power crystals were the unbeatable shock force that gave victory after victory to the goblyns, centuries ago. But after the cataclysm that destroyed almost the whole goblyn empire, the knowledge required to build and control these machines has got lost almost fully.

  Anyway, in lots of cities there are still signs of their presence. Some damaged or disconnected constructs now decorate their streets, or wait to be repaired, recharged or reactivated in hidden caves. And a few keep waiting, with machine-like patience, new order from their goblyn masters... or new enemies to squash...

  As they are machines built on the whim of their creators, and not living beings, they share some common features and others depend fully on the ideas the witch engineers who built them had. Usually they were built with iron alloys which gave them great resistence, were powered with Matter crystals which allowed them to move, Mind crystals to give them an artificial mind with which to follow orders (usually a terrible intellect, they didn't need more in combat) and finally Body, Matter and/or Spirit crystals to be able to perceive their environment. In some exceptional cases, they had Energy crystals used as lightning or igneous ray weapons, but that wasn't very common.

  Construct example (Cathaoir's musician)
  

  Atributes
  Reasoning	terrible
  Perception	great	Range 30 meters
  Willpower	NA
  Strength	superb
  Agility	mediocre
  Health	superb
  Scale	+3

  
  

  Skills
  Melee	good	OF +2 bludgeoning or +3 edged
  Defense	always fair

  
  

  Special

  They have all normal life levels, plus 1 extra scratch and 1 extra hurt (because they have a Superb Health)

  They attack using a light mace (a musician's staff) or with cymbals (as edged as a medium sized axe).

  
  

  Construct example (titanic guardian)
  

  Atributes
  Reasoning	terrible
  Perception	superb	Range 30 meters
  Willpower	NA
  Strength	superb
  Agility	mediocre
  Health	superb
  Scale	+7

  
  

  Skills
  Huge battleaxe	fair	OF +4 edged
  Defense	always fair

  
  

  Special

  It has all normal life levels, plus 1 extra scratch and 1 extra hurt (because it has a Superb Health)

  Can make a sweeping attack with the huge axe it carries, at a mediocre level, though it can hit many targets at the same time.

  Aditional note: this is an example of the old constructs elite. As it is, it is practically unbeatable.

  
  

  Faults

  Heavy and slow (weighs 1 1/2 tons), almost any character moves faster though its strides are quite large.

  Noisy (not only it is noisy when it moves, it is also noisy as a clockwork).

  
  
• Lycánthropes

  "I have read somewhere that they possess a hidden city in the deepest place of Everdark, with very powerful magic relics..." (Sirastus the librarian)

  One of the plagues always present in Everdark is that of licanthropy. It is not a typical lycanthropy, in this underground environment the form that it takes is of giant rodents, savage and bloody. This illness is usually transmitted by the bite of a lycanthrope (although not always, and there are certain remedies and magic that can help to avoid this illness). There are also pure lycanthropes whose state is natural, and not an illness (nevertheless their bites transmit the illness to other normal goblynoids).

  An infected lycanthrope usually is denominated "minor lycanthrope", because its powers are weaker and its rage and savagery frequently overcomes its goblynoid intellect. A pure lycanthrope, from birth, it's usually denominated pure or major, because its powers are superior and their intelligence is normal, although that doesn't mean that they can't be so savage or more in combat than a minor lycanthrope.

  Among their powers we can find their extraordinary strength (that translates to an scale increment that adds to their base scale), reflexes so quick that they allows them to attack more than once for assault without penalties and finally (maybe the worst) it is their regeneration capacity that allows them to cure their wounds with a dizzy speed, even curing incapacitating wounds in some few rounds).

  Minor average lycanthrope (infected goblyn)
  

  Atributes
  Reasoning	fair
  Perception	great
  Willpower	fair
  Strength	fair
  Agility	fair
  Health	good
  Scale	+2

  
  

  Skills
  Brawl	great	OF +1 (edged, with claws)
  Dodge	great
  Observation	great
  Track	great
  Move silently	great
  Camouflage	great
  Run	great
  Jump	good
  Climb	good

  
  

  Gifts

  Two attacks per round.

  Wounds not caused by silver or magic get healed 1 level per round, aditionally all scratches are automatically healed in the next round they were caused; more serious wound get healed 1 level per round starting with the most serious one, except if the wound is almost mortal and you inflict any kind of additional wound.

  
  

  Faults

  Poor Reasoning in bestial form.

  
  
• Monstrous animals of Everdark

  Many of the creatures of Everdark have become in very small varieties (to facilitate them finding food and need less quantity of it) or very big and predatory varieties (to be able to survive in such a hostile environment).

  There are many creatures of huge size that are who cause more problems to the goblyns, although in the cities it is almost impossible to find these monsters. Even this way, we will show a few examples of what can face the goblyns in their expeditions to Everdark...

  Giant aquatic snake
  

  Atributes
  Reasoning	animal
  Perception	fair
  Willpower	fair
  Strength	fair
  Agility	great
  Health	fair
  Scale	+5

  
  

  Skills
  Bite	good (great if it attacks by surprise)	OF +1 (impaling)
  Constriction	superb	OF +0 (bludgeoning)
  Dodge	good
  Run	fair in normal in marshy land, good swiming

  
  

  Gifts

  Scaly skin (DF +1).

  
  

  Faults

  Outside of the water it only moves to attack at 100% of his ability during 5 rounds, then it has to rest; it is not applied crawling but in that way it cannot attack and defend correctly.

  
  
• Bugbears
• Ogres
• Undead