Curial - Academic Horror In-Play View

Circle: 8

Rarity: Rare

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Created at: 2025-06-30 15:24 by chris_allison; Updated at: 2025-08-23 12:54

A humanoid horror resembling a rotting Ts’krang in long flowing robes encircled by writhing iron chains. Curial is a minor named horror who feeds on the active destruction of knowledge.

Attributes

    Dexterity: 8: 2d6
    Strength: 12: 2d10
    Constitution: 10: 2d8
    Perception: 15: 1d12+2d6
    Willpower: 11: 1d10+1d8
    Charisma: 10: 2d8
    Initiative: 10: 2d8
    Physical Defense: 16
    Mystic Defense: 18
    Social Defense: 14
    Physical Armor: 12
    Mystic Armor: 10
    Unconscious Rating: 100
    Death Rating: 126
    Wound Rating: 15
    Knockdown: 18
    Recovery Rolls: 3
    Karma: 28
    Movement: 10
    Actions: 4

Attacks


  • Writhing Chains: 20: 1d20+1d8+1d6 (20: 1d20+1d8+1d6): 20y, entangling

    • Powers, Abilities and Spells


  • Displace (Standard)
  • Horror Mark (Standard vs. MysticDefense): 18: 1d12+1d10+1d8: As per standard power
  • Skin Shift (Standard vs. MysticDefense): 20: 1d20+1d8+1d6 (16: 1d12+1d8+1d6): Each success on the action test causes one wound and then does effect test damage with no armor reducing.
  • Immune to Fear (Free)
  • Terror (Standard vs. MysticDefense): 16: 1d12+1d8+1d6
  • Animate Dead (Standard vs. MysticDefense): 20: 1d20+1d8+1d6
  • Harvest Energy (Free vs. SocialDefense): 22: 1d20+1d10+1d8: gains one Karma per success on a Harvest Energy test agains the victim’s Social Defense. If the harvested emotion is fear related to lost knowledge, the horror gains an additional point of Karma, and gains a point even if the test is a failure.
  • Destroy Knowledge (Standard vs. MysticDefense): 22: 1d20+1d10+1d8: A successful test destroys the equivalent to a shelf of books or a day of a person’s memory. Three or more success levels against a non-adept namegiver completely erases their mind, replacing it with foul horror markings and chanting.
  • Spellcasting (Standard): 20: 1d20+1d8+1d6: Astral Spear, Shadow's Whisper, Blind, Debilitating Gloom, Step through Shadows, Recovery, Best Face, Mind Fog, Not Here!, Notice Not, Twisted Tongues
  • Forge Construct / Horror Thread (Standard vs. MysticDefense): 20: 1d20+1d8+1d6: See Horror Powers

    • Talents


  • Disguise 15 (1d12+2d6)

    • Special Maneuvers


  • Corrupted Knowledge [Curial]: Books or people corrupted by Curial are infectious. Those interacting with them must make a Willpower Test against TN 12 or become harried as their own knowledge or sense of self becomes corrupted.

    • Please note that this work is a fan project based on Earthdawn which is copyrighted by FASA games.

    The Earthdawn Creatures project is available on GitHub under an MIT licence here: Earthdawn Creatures

    Developed by ToferC 2023