After Sundown 1e

"I'll not rest till I have me gold. Curse this well that me soul shall dwell, till I find me magic that breaks me spell."

Covetous and frightening, the Fey of After Sundown are a lot more like the Svartalfs of bloodthirsty Norse myth than the pixies of a Disney cartoon. If they were from a Disney cartoon, it would probably be the Night on Bald Mountain segment from Fantasia. The hideous goblins and gnarled ogres that make Limbo their home are stupid and vile.

All Fey have an Infernal Power Source and suffer aggravated wounds from iron. Before humanity had iron, there were Fey outposts on Earth: cruel and barbarous slaveholding affairs that sculpted the land to be more like Limbo. When iron came to human hands, the Fey were wiped from the Earth. This historical footnote has been obscured, since of course the obvious parallels possible with other supernatural creatures is enough to give any Covenant Prelate pause.

"Everything is a scam to you, isn't it?"
"Damn right it is."

The Mirror Goblins are hideous and seemingly subhuman. They are small and misshapen, and they have hideous hooked teeth and claws. Mirror Goblins are a lot like the Black Isz from The Maxx or the Mumblers from Silent Hill. Left to their own devices, they mostly wander around Limbo gibbering and periodically eating each other. However, they are also oppressed by more powerful residents of the Dark Reflection. Whipped into shape by stronger creatures and groups they are used as disposable fodder and monsters of the week by The King with Three Shadows and other Infernal groups. Since they always have a Potency of zero, a Mirror Goblin can pass through any portal to Limbo, which is where they get their name: literally goblins who come into the Mortal World through mirrors.

While Mirror Goblins have strange pacmanesque mouths and rarely stand much over a meter tall, their muppetlike visages seem to have little difficulty being understood in human languages. When combined with their ability to magically disguise themselves, Mirror Goblins can actually penetrate human society with tolerable ease. They dare not stay long in the Mortal World though, because their power ritual can only be performed in Limbo. Mirror Goblins are generally regarded as being less than fully trustworthy.

The best media to look through to get a handle on Mirror Goblins is The Maxx, as they pretty much look and act like the Isz.

A Mirror Goblin was never human and has a nonstandard attribute array. While they are magical and can develop magical powers, they don't have a Potency rating. Their stats are:

S: 1/4, A: 2/7, I: 1/6, L: 1/5, W: 1/4, C: 1/6

A Mirror Goblin has an Infernal power source and a Ritual power schedule.

Basic Powers

• Quickness (Basic Celerity)
• Mask of a Thousand Faces (Basic Veil)

"Why there's nothing under this mask but a neck and some tendons!"

Spriggans are hideous worm eaten things scarcely larger than a Mirror Goblin who can draw upon Infernal power to become massive killing machines. These beings look like hunks of maggot infested meat in an only barely humanoid shape, and they are quite boneless until they invoke their Giant Size and War Form, which are always enacted together. At that point their worms and flesh are pulled tight over a scaffold of long wet bones that end in sharp points in many places.

When a Spriggan performs its power ritual, it covers itself in spoiled food and soiled goods. The worms crawl out of it and grasp filth and offal to pull back into their cavernous interiors. Spriggans are quite susceptible to their Master Passion: Despair.

A Spriggan was never human and has a nonstandard attribute array. Their stats are:

S: 1/4, A: 1/6, I: 2/7, L: 1/5, W: 1/6, C: 1/6

A Spriggan has an Infernal power source and a Ritual power schedule.

Basic Powers

• Clinging (Basic Clout)
• Nimble Feet (Basic Celerity)
• Small Witness (Basic Swarm Song)

Advanced Powers

• Giant Size (Advanced Clout)
• War Form (Celerity / Clout Devotion)

"Skin... Graaaaah... Tasty..."

Within the prison world that is the Deep Reflection, hideous ogres prowl and punish or even murder those unlucky enough to fall into their clutches. But while they are the jailers of this foul realm, they are also its prisoners. Trolls spend almost every moment of their existence in agony and dejection, and eagerly take out their pains on others.

Hulking brutes with bulging musculature and an inhuman appearance, Trolls cannot actually turn their Giant Size off. These tortured giants of Limbo appear in literature as Tartarians and Pyramid Head. While they do eat people, they don't actually get anything for it except a meal. They rip the skin from their victims simply because they find enjoyment in doing so, not for the advancement of any mystical agenda.

Trolls have a fairly multivarious appearance, varying from merely oversized humans to lumpy stone skinned oni with tremendous tusks. These changes are generally speaking purely cosmetic. Trolls have no difficulty recognizing different Trolls as being the same as themselves.

Trolls have a nonstandard attribute array because they were never humans. Before their Potency modifier and their constant Giant Size, their attribute ranges are:

S: 5/10, A: 1/5, I: 1/5, L: 1/3, W: 3/8, C: 1/6

A Troll has an Infernal power source and a Continuous power schedule.

Core Discipline: Clout and Fortitude

• Vigor (Basic Clout)
• Clinging (Basic Clout)
• Revive the Flesh (Basic Fortitude)
• Patience of the Mountains (Basic Fortitude)

Basic Powers

• Poison Heart (Basic Names of the Blasphemies)
• Repel (Basic Magnetism)

Advanced Powers

• Giant Size (Advanced Clout)
• Devastation (Advanced Clout)
• Restoration (Advanced Fortitude)

Story Inspiration: Silent Hill, Billy Goats Gruff, Jack and the Giant