II Mythos Races groups Due to a lack of self-awareness and introspection, gods die or move on, yet when the ghouls move in, ghouls never really grasp the enormity and tragic they pick up those pieces and make them their own truth of existence Despite this or perhaps because of In this way, many otherwise-dead faiths live on in it, they carry in their hearts at least a subconscious ghoul warrens, yet these gods are no more the preferred understanding of the sadness of their situation Ghouls patrons of ghouls than any other may titter and caper atop a grave in delight at finding Not all ghoul clans worship gods Some ghouls are a delicious new meal, yet in the aftermath of gorging intellectual atheists, while others instead look to their on time-seasoned meat, their dreams are often haunted predecessors for advice This form of ancestor worship by lonely thoughts Stories are told of ghouls who, in can manifest in two ways A band of ghouls may their old age, grew lonely, abandoned and forgotten in well look back upon their parents and their parents’ distant sepulchers parents for advice, mining their accomplishments for Ghouls rarely integrate well into greater societies, inspiration Yet they might also look back at their own either Despite centuries of education via texts and lives, particularly in the case of a changeling ghoul tomes, inevitably when ghouls finally make contact who has finally undergone full transformation To with the society they have for so long admired from these ghouls, lost family members are as good as dead, afar, their appearance and hungers end only in tragedy even if in truth they yet live, and become as ancestors Faith Matters of faith and worship are not unknown to ghouls, but ghouls have no true gods of their own Many ghouls worship gods from their life prior to becoming a nascent ghoul These gods often not answer the prayers of ghouls because of the ghouls’ required lifestyle Some particularly devout ghouls may shift their worship to a god in their original life’s pantheon that would be willing to hear the prayers of the ghoul Typically, these gods are neutral or evil in nature and not have concerns regarding laws and taboos against feasting on the dead Others may worship entities of the Mythos (particularly those who might offer the opportunity to learn secrets of a to venerate Worship of these childhood memories is all some ghouls have to keep their minds from fully toppling into madness and they may even continue to wear familiar clothing (often robbed from graves) and carry gear and weapons in an attempt to cling to their previous lives These ghouls are often objects of pity among their brethren, who typically leave them to wallow in their own memories as long as they no harm Such ghouls may try to reestablish contact with lost family, and in cases in which this doesn’t result in a tragic end, they can reveal the presence of a ghoul colony to humanity, which can cause problems (see Relations on page 24) Culture powerful nature, such as Nyarlathotep or Tsathoggua) Without a true culture to call their own, ghouls seem In some lands, only ghouls worship the gods of old perfectly content to immerse themselves in the cultures that are considered dead or forgotten by societies today of those they dine upon As a result, most ghoul In fact, this is merely the result of ghouls picking up societies are somewhat behind the times, with their pieces, fragments, and memories left behind When a aesthetics often seeming old-fashioned when compared humanoid culture passes on, they leave behind their to modern-day groups under whose graveyards they statues and temples Abandoned and forgotten, their hide By scavenging what these societies throw away, 23