Exhumation

Perversions

Introduction

Exhumation in its most litteral sense means to dig something up, usually a dead body, from the earth. For the Gallu, a vile species of undead corpse eater this term has a more complicated meaning. Exhumation is a Perversion, or a supernatural set of powers gained through association with dark spirits.

The perversion of Exhumation concerns itself with unhallowed earth allowing the Gallu who employ these powers to manipulate the soil of old battlefields, graveyards and places of mass murder. Its important to remember that there are few places left on the Earth that have not been tainted with human burial or mass slaughter.

Given the aforementioned, there are three limitations to the perversions of Exhumation, the first is untainted nature. Some regions still remain pristine without having been soaked in human blood and death, these places of untouched wilderness are shrinking with the passage of centuries and mankind's continued expansion, but in such places the perversions of Exhumation are all but useless.

The second limitation is solid stone. Earth fused with fire, in other words stone, is a barrier to the perversions of Exhumation. The exception to this rule are the Chthonian Claws which can dig through stone, but can only do so at half-speed. Solid stone can be circumvented a number of ways including the use of blunt force, a manual workforce, explosives or by just by avoiding it altogether. Elements of the earth refined by fire, i.e. treated metals, are also immune to the effects of Exhumation, but can be clawed through slowly. Solid stone not fused with fire like limestone or chemically manufactured materials like cement do not inhibit the perversions of Exhumation.

The third and final limitation to Exhumation is sanctified ground or holy ground. No perversion of Exhumation will function on sacred soil. And despite the lurid implications of the Penny Dreadfuls it takes more than simple desecration to remove the sanctity of a cemetery or churchyard. However with the advent of the modern era secularization of graveyards has grown in popularity as faith has declined and this movement has made it easier for the Gallu to expand there territories within modern metropolises.

As with all the Perversions, the potency of Exhumation increases in steps, and begins with simple information gathering in thr form of profane divination and proceeds by arming the Gallu with aggravated claws, then allowing for the summoning of items from unhallowed soil. Eventually the Gallu may tunnel through the earth at walking speed and even learn to teleport from one grave or graveyard to the next, bypassing solid stone and holy ground altogether.

● Interrogate the Earth

The Gallu is able to divine the contents of any given piece of earth.

System: The Gallu expends a point of Willpower and rolls Perception + Occult difficulty four.

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●● Chthonian Claws

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●●● Unearth the Spoils

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●●●● Burrow the Unhallowed

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