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Since the rise of the first Vampir, Morgulia has been a land haunted by its past. Disembodied spirits stalked the lonely places and shunned groves, and travelers would hear whispers from beneath the hills. Most shrines, large and small alike, are dedicated to the remembrance of the dead, and most folk make regular offerings to them at such places. Yet, it does not seem that the dead are appeased, for it seems that everyone knows someone, or knows of someone, who has incurred the wrath of the dead, or entered the forests young and healthy only to return bent and grayed by what they had witnessed. Now, with the passing of The Black Star, the dead have begun to act, not in random hauntings, but in whole bands and hosts, and long forgotten secret gates in the hills have swung their stone doors wide. Woe be to the living...

Long before the Vampir arose to rule the nights, a foreign people invaded and subjugated the lands that would become Morgulia, founding a sorcerous and decadent realm that would last an age. Now only the most ancient of Vampir and crumbling tomes recall the name of the Aciri or the kingdom which the first Vampir destroyed and erased from history. Sealed and forgotten, the Aciri crypt complexes lay moldering, their arcane constructions keeping the Aciri spirits forever bound to their desiccated corpses, dead but fitfully dreaming of their former rule and once more doing as they would and enslaving all others to their will… Now the doors have opened and the long forgotten Aciri stir once more, eager to reclaim what is rightfully theirs...

It is widely believed that, if the dead are not shown proper respect and remembrance, they will become vengeful and unleash their anger on any of the living that they can corner, and tales are filled with the victims of their fury. Unfortunately, though the Morgulians attempt to remember and appease them, far too many die alone or in some haunted field of battle where they lie unconsecrated and forgotten. Now whole hosts of the vengeful dead haunt the peaks, forests, and valleys of Morgulia, waiting in lonely ruins and shadowed places until drawn to terrible action by the warmth of the living...

The Vansalbati, also known as The Hungering Dead, are the specters of a race long forgotten by all save the Aciri and the most ancient of the Vampir who, during the Vampir’s rise, were burned alive and buried en masse. Similar to the Vengeful Dead, they have roamed the haunted places of Morgulia ever since but, unlike the wraiths of their human counterparts, exhibit a viscous voraciousness and warlike cunning, exulting in hunting down and cornering their victims like the most sadistic Boyar Vanatori. For those unfortunate enough to be caught by them, only brutal dismemberment awaits, and there is no hope of even the life of the dead as their victims are devoured body and soul. This is the terrible fate of all who fall prey to the Vansalbati...

The various models are from Davale Games, Wondrous Miniatures, DM Stash, Tytan Troll Miniatures, Epic Miniatures, and Rocket Pig Games while the terrain is from Code2. The rest of the background is a stock photo of a Transylvanian forest.

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Description

Since the rise of the first Vampir, Morgulia has been a land haunted by its past. Disembodied spirits stalked the lonely places and shunned groves, and travelers would hear whispers from beneath the hills. Most shrines, large and small alike, are dedicated to the remembrance of the dead, and most folk make regular offerings to them at such places. Yet, it does not seem that the dead are appeased, for it seems that everyone knows someone, or knows of someone, who has incurred the wrath of the dead, or entered the forests young and healthy only to return bent and grayed by what they had witnessed. Now, with the passing of The Black Star, the dead have begun to act, not in random hauntings, but in whole bands and hosts, and long forgotten secret gates in the hills have swung their stone doors wide. Woe be to the living...

Long before the Vampir arose to rule the nights, a foreign people invaded and subjugated the lands that would become Morgulia, founding a sorcerous and decadent realm that would last an age. Now only the most ancient of Vampir and crumbling tomes recall the name of the Aciri or the kingdom which the first Vampir destroyed and erased from history. Sealed and forgotten, the Aciri crypt complexes lay moldering, their arcane constructions keeping the Aciri spirits forever bound to their desiccated corpses, dead but fitfully dreaming of their former rule and once more doing as they would and enslaving all others to their will… Now the doors have opened and the long forgotten Aciri stir once more, eager to reclaim what is rightfully theirs...

It is widely believed that, if the dead are not shown proper respect and remembrance, they will become vengeful and unleash their anger on any of the living that they can corner, and tales are filled with the victims of their fury. Unfortunately, though the Morgulians attempt to remember and appease them, far too many die alone or in some haunted field of battle where they lie unconsecrated and forgotten. Now whole hosts of the vengeful dead haunt the peaks, forests, and valleys of Morgulia, waiting in lonely ruins and shadowed places until drawn to terrible action by the warmth of the living...

The Vansalbati, also known as The Hungering Dead, are the specters of a race long forgotten by all save the Aciri and the most ancient of the Vampir who, during the Vampir’s rise, were burned alive and buried en masse. Similar to the Vengeful Dead, they have roamed the haunted places of Morgulia ever since but, unlike the wraiths of their human counterparts, exhibit a viscous voraciousness and warlike cunning, exulting in hunting down and cornering their victims like the most sadistic Boyar Vanatori. For those unfortunate enough to be caught by them, only brutal dismemberment awaits, and there is no hope of even the life of the dead as their victims are devoured body and soul. This is the terrible fate of all who fall prey to the Vansalbati...

The various models are from Davale Games, Wondrous Miniatures, DM Stash, Tytan Troll Miniatures, Epic Miniatures, and Rocket Pig Games while the terrain is from Code2. The rest of the background is a stock photo of a Transylvanian forest.

www.deviantart.com/morgulia
linktr.ee/horizonpointstudios1…