Mohrg (Basic Lore)

Mohrg (CR 9)
Pure Evil - Medium - Undead
Take a Zombie, and give it intelligence. Such is the ghastly fate of the things called Mohrgs. Despite their horrific decayed state, Mohrgs are not zombies at all, mindless things driven by The Hunger. No, if anything Mohrgs are more closely related to Vampires. Some sages speculate that Mohrgs and Vampires arise from different undead traits, but fill the same 'niche' as predators upon civilization. Vampires are the smiling face of The Hunger, while Mohrgs are the bitter, hateful scions of Corruption. Mohrgs certainly hate their existence, but they hate the living much, much more, and seek to spread undeath to everything they can catch. Mohrgs are not nearly as adept at blending in as more sophisticated undead such as Vampires, but they are far more capable of hiding. Mohrgs are not driven by The Hunger, and so they can be patient, laying low, waiting years between victims, killing one here, another there, supping slowly but deeply upon the terror and agony of their victims as they assemble a horde of zombies to do their darkest murder. Once they feel they have enough strength, a cemetery of Mohrgs will issue forth in the night, killing entire towns in their beds, nearly invisible in a sea of zombies that they add to, and add to, as they kill and kill.... Once the living begin to strike back, however, Mohrgs will seek to slip away and go back into their dark lairs, there to patiently, steadily, do their murders, building once again....