Verreauxi Aquilae. Accessed at their deviantArt page here
[The kharisiri, also known as the pishtaco, has a great story hook but no explicit description. My version was based in part on the T.E.D. Klein story “Black Man with a Horn”, illustrated above, with a dollop of @bogleech‘s Foetusaur. The flavor text draws heavily on the urban legends about fat stealing still common in Peru.]
Kharisiri
This hideous creature resembles a
bloated human corpse, sickly-white in hue. The lower half of its face is
dominated by a protruding trunk tipped in a circular mouth with multiple rings
of teeth.
The
kharisiri are a race of hideous shapeshifters who grease the divisions between
rich and poor with stolen human fat. Kharisiri are attracted to places in which
class or racial divisions are strong and tensions are high in order to prey on
the weakest members of society in the guise of the strongest. The resultant
distrust and chaos that arises gives the kharisiri great pleasure, but not so
much as the wealth the kharisiri gains from its exploits. Not only to kharisiri
sell their considerable knowledge to the highest bidder, but they also sell the
fat they steal, mixed with the kharisiri’s secretions to make a paste capable
of curing diseases and healing wounds.
Kharisiri
hate to fight fair, and prefer to strike against single sleeping targets.
Unlike most predators, they do not feed on the sick, young or elderly, preferring
the misery caused by targeting healthy adults and draining their vitality. If
discovered in its predations, a kharisiri uses its poisonous breath to disable
as many targets as possible. Kharisiri are cowardly and will flee at the first
opportunity from serious combat.
A
kharisiri stands as tall as a man, but its corpulence pushes it to a weight of
300-400 pounds.
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