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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)

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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	comment	Grim Hollow is a setting for Dungeons & Dragons based around themes of Gothic Horror and Dark Fantasy. The setting is published by the third party company Ghostfire Gaming and funded through kickstarter. The first sourcebook, a guide to the world of Etharis containing rules for foul curses and vile transformations, was funded through kickstarter in 2019. After the immense success of the first kickstarter, one for a Player's Guide containing new subclasses, magic items and spells, was started and funded in 2020. A third kickstarter was funded in 2021, this time for a Monster Grimoire containing monsters, treasure tables and rules for designing your own gothic monsters.The world of Etharis is a world besieged by darkness. From the windswept plains of Castinella, to the frozen reaches of Valika, monsters roam freely and humanity is their prey. Yet despite this, it is humanity that often pose the greatest threat. Religious zealots chase down and burn those they deem heretical, so-called great empires battle each other for dominance and sometimes literally bloodsucking aristocrats exploit their people for their own gain.Then what of the gods? The great guardians of virtue and justice? They are long gone, slain in their heavenly wars. Now, only their servants remain to watch over the world, stretched to their limits, though some would rather take advantage of the spreading chaos...
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_12e8e69b	type	Jekyll & Hyde
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_12e8e69b	comment	Jekyll & Hyde: The "Path of the Fractured" subclass for Barbarians revolves around mentally dividing the barbarian's mind between two personas; the intellect-driven Ego and the emotion-driven Id. The Id is the persona that takes over when the barbarian rages, and it even results in the character's body warping to the point they are unrecognizable as the same person.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: The player characters can be monsters who are going after even worse monsters. In the setting lore proper, there's the werewolf resistance against the Human Sacrifice-practicing druids of the Valikan Clans.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1a303edf	type	Our Orcs Are Different
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1a303edf	comment	Our Orcs Are Different: They don't exist. While half-orcs exist in Etharis, true orcs are just boogeymen from children's stories. A blog post on half-orcs goes into more details, explaining that orcs were a race who ruled over much of Etharis in the distant past, before the rise of elves and dwarves, but they largely vanished by the time humanity rose to power. There are three major stories about where the orcs went, with a lot of individual variations on each. One story is that the orcs sailed to a magical realm to the west to live with their gods, abandoning their half-human offspring to stay behind. This story raises the most questions, and has the most variants, such as the idea of the orcs leaving behind either a message so their offspring could follow them, a secret cabsal of half-orcs who know the truth and will prepare for their return, or both. The second story claims that half-orcs were an attempt by a now-lost god of war to create a race in his own image by using samples of the primordial clay used to sculpt men and orcs. When this god perished, the half-orcs were left to fend for themselves. This story is popular in Kandar, but considered a terrible heresy punishable by death in Thrull. The final story is that there are no "half-orcs". Rather, when humanity rose up and swept over Etharis, the orcs found themselves beaten back, and ultimately survived by deceiving humanity, claiming to be only "half" orc and half human whilst integrating themselves into human communities where they could. This story is the least popular with half-orcs themselves, as it's offensive to their sense of racial pride, but is noted as the least outlandish or fantastical story, and raising the fewest logical questions. The Monster Grimoire finally offers the Grudgel, a race who are the spitting image of pureblooded orcs, but who are characterized as wise, peaceful astrologers. Secretly, the Grudgel themselves aren't quite sure where they come from or why they look so much like orcs.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: In the Player's Guide trailer, a young girl is taken by a monster. Her father mournfully holds a locket with her picture, before grabbing his axe and running to save her.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: Wechselkinder are golems in the shape of children created by The Fair Folk and used to cover it up when the fey abduct a human child to become a changeling. They suffer double angst by being both a self-aware construct and permanently trapped in a physically child-like body. They have managed to start making a niche for themselves as nurses and doctor's assistants since the outbreak of the Weeping Pox, due to their inherent immunity to disease, but are (justifiably) skeptical of humanity remaining grateful afterwards.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Players that begin their transformation into a Fiend can offer these, gaining benefits of their own depending on the gift they offered the hapless mortal. Otto Bouwengracht, the founder of Liesech, made one with the being known as the Filth Grazer. Unlike most examples of this trope, the deal was actually mutually beneficial, as the Grazer only wanted the filth (garbage and dead bodies) of the city, which they didn't need anyway, and gave knowledge of the best fishing spots and currents in return. The deal only turned sour when the signatories failed to fulfill their obligations. The NPC Sasha Seraphsbane made a deal with an archdaemon after her lover was burned by the church, and she uses the power to wage war against Castinella and its church. In the City Below of Soma, there's a dark shrine dedicated to a forgotten god that seems to spew forth all evil in the world. Morgen Hund, after his heroic Hold the Line, came across the shrine and asked for the power to destroy his oppressors. His petition was granted, and he became a vampire. Strangely, the shrine has yet to request something in return.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2178cf15	type	The Sacred Darkness
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2178cf15	comment	The Laneshi have a natural affinity for necromancy, which other races regard with fear and loathing for its association with undeath, but to the Laneshi, it is viewed as a holy power that aids their people. Also, the Laneshi mystics gain this necromantic affinty by having their younger twin sibling sacrificed after birth to become their spiritual guide. A blog post that expands on their racial lore goes into detail about Laneshi culture, and points out that living in the ocean means that many things humans take for granted are all but impossible. This includes most forms of agriculture and food preservation, producing ceramics or metal, and really anything involving the use of fire.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Living in Etharis sucks, if that wasn't clear already. Monsters haunt the land making travel dangerous, plagues and disasters both mundane and supernatural make life tough and the aristocracy have a tendency to literally suck the blood out of the peasantry. The DM advice outright says that every victory should feel like it was earned despite the efforts of the world.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_22cfbf14	type	Answers to the Name of God
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_22cfbf14	comment	Answers to the Name of God: Malikir, the Arch Daemon of Pride naturally prefers to be referred to as "God." Unfortunately, she is genuinely the most powerful of the Arch Daemons, and with all the actual gods dead and/or missing, she arguably has a claim on the title, if only by lack of competition.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: The Sangromancer subclass for the Wizard and the Circle of Blood Druid both deal in this, as does a Warlock who selects "The First Vampire" as their patron. Vampire player characters can select an innate mastery over sangromantic spells as one of their transformation bonuses.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The Campaign Guide includes a short story about Zardov, the mayor of a small Soman town who's hoping to get permission from the dukes to build a new main road through his town. The vampires agree, but claim his only daughter in return. We're not told if the girl is just another meal or if she was turned. Every seven years, ten young mages travel to Ravencourt Sanctuary to study the arcane arts, and every seven years only nine return.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_28f170e9	type	Whatevermancy
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_28f170e9	comment	Whatevermancy: In addition to the classic Necromancy, the Player's Guide also introduces Sangromancy, blood magic.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_291e4f49	type	Cold Flames
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_291e4f49	comment	Cold Flames: Coldfire exists as the fifth element in Etharis, although only occuring naturally on the penninsula of Volgen (so far). Coldfire is one of the greatest threats to Etharis as a whole (which is saying a lot), as it continues to burn even without fuel and can only be put out by great amounts of regular fire. It transformed Volgen into an icy wasteland in just years and the Valikan clans work tirelessly to prevent it from spreading.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2b38e788	type	Haunted Fetter
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2b38e788	comment	Haunted Fetter: The Haunted subclass for sorcerers turns the character into a living fetter for a ghost; their subclass features revolve around this ghostly companion as a result.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2ba97f22	type	Faerie Court
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2ba97f22	comment	Faerie Court: There are two: the Summer Court, who are joyful, friendly, and beautiful, but deceptive and often hide wicked intentions behind beautiful facades; and the Winter Court, who are serious, cruel, and stoic, but straightforward and earnest. Taking the Fey transformation requires swearing loyalty to one or the other.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Depressingly common. Sometimes, they end up literal monsters; Lief Sarvif, while still saving people from Human Sacrifice, is still a werewolf who regularly turns others, and the Player's Guide tells the tale of a wizard who, desperate for the arcane power needed to save his town, underwent the ritual to become a lich, one component of which was the murder of his brother.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc4ac67	type	Black Knight
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc4ac67	comment	Black Knight: The two subclasses offered to The Paladin in Etharis are the "Oath of Pestilence", which embraces sickness and decay as both natural parts of life and as a tool with which to winnow the weak from the strong, and the "Oath of Zeal", which embraces the paladin's hatred as holy and uses it to refine their offensive abilities.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: The "Misbegotten Bloodline" subclass for sorcerers represents individuals who literally derived the ability to work magic by studying and embracing the curse laid on their family.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_369c0d71	type	Voluntary Vassal
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_369c0d71	comment	Voluntary Vassal: The halflings willingly submitted to the humans during the age of conquest, since they didn't have the military might to resist them.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_3947a03f	type	Celestial Paragons and Archangels
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_3947a03f	comment	Celestial Paragons and Archangels: With the gods dead, it fell to their greatest servants to pick up the slack. To varying degrees of success. Their number include Miklas, Arch Seraph of Mercy; Empyreus, Arch Seraph of Valor; Zabriel, Arch Seraph of Truth; Solyma, Arch Seraph of Justice; Morael, arch seraph of Sacrifice and Devotion and Aphaeleon, Arch Seraph of Temperance.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: Etharis was once home to thriving demihuman nations. Then humanity arrived and basically became an all-conquering horde; they utterly annihilated one of the two great dwarven and gnomish nations, forcibly subjugated the other into becoming a permanent vassal state, massacred the elves almost to the point of genocide and drove them from their homeland, and terrified the halflings so badly that the halflings volunteered to be humanity's Slave Race to avoid being crushed in turn. Zigzagged in that this was centuries ago, and most modern humans actually don't remember that their ancestors did this, nor do they hold any particular enmity towards the demihuman peoples — not to mention it was a human king of Charneault who reined back his countrymen from complete extermination, hence why most elves are native to that area. Deconstructed in that the demihumans haven't forgotten this, and many of them are eying the crumbling state of humanity's power bases in Etharis and starting to thoughtfully sharpen their weapons... The vampire in the reveal trailer certainly believes this.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Brass Boy is a construct built for a king on commission. After witnessing its creator murdered by the king, it dedicated itself to spread death.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4221e01a	type	Elemental Embodiment
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4221e01a	comment	Elemental Embodiment: A central part of the Valikan religion. The four Primordials (Lady Mordakesh, Alondo, Citrolach and Ilhara) are worshipped by some, although not as much as they once were, and elementals are often summoned by shamans. The Coldfire Primordial Gormadraug, on the other hand, is the evil Destroyer Deity.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_438e4dd6	type	Demon of Human Origin
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_438e4dd6	comment	Demon of Human Origin: The players can become this with the Fiend vile transformation. The spirit of the trope also allows for humans to become Angels (Seraphs), Elementals and Fey, also by transformations.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Many different monsters enjoy killing or eating children; even the Fair Folk are prone to stealing children to raise them like pets. The vampire lords of Soma in particular have such a reputation for enjoying eating children that Soma is the one territory where wechselkind are viewed as a blessing, because it means one's living child is safe and free from vampires in the realm of the fey.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: A mechanic for the Avatar of Slaughter. Once it's dropped to 0 hitpoints, it can be trapped in a weapon. The weapon becomes a rather powerful magic item, with the caveat that the Avatar is still in there and will encourage violence in the wielder.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4977559e	type	Our Angels Are Different
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4977559e	comment	Our Angels Are Different: They're called Seraphs for one and can be ascended from mortals. The Arch-seraphs are currently taking the jobs of the gods in their absence.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4a02a75e	comment	The Theocracy: What the BÃ¼rach Empire is in effect. There is an emperor, but he is naught but a pawn to the Hearthkeepers.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: Emperor Aratron II of the BÃ¼rach Empire is only 12 years old and little more than a puppet of the Hearthkeeper Church. Petitioners will find that he is haughty and sullen, but interested in any news of the outside world, as he is quite sheltered.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: The Archdaemons share the same origin as the Arch-seraphs, being angelic servants of the now dead gods, but the daemons chose to use their newfound freedom for their own gain, rather than carrying on their old masters' duties.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: The Bulwark subclass for Fighter can generate temporary hit points and then spend them to reduce damage taken or increase damage delt.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5171abed	type	Loads and Loads of Races
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5171abed	comment	Loads and Loads of Races: Unusually for a Dark Fantasy world, Etharis is surprisingly populated with playable races, especially with the release of the Player's Guide. Aside from the obligatory humans, players in Grim Hollow can choose to be: Elves, who spent centuries as nomads when humanity first came to Etharis and burned down their ancestral homes, before being given magic by the spirits of nature to defend themselves, and eventually formed a truce with Charneault. Dwarves, who avoided extinction after one of their two great strongholds was obliterated by humanity by agreeing to be a vassal race for humanity. Gnomes, who live alongside dwarves. Inventors of gunpowder and masters of the rifle. Halflings, who surrendered themselves to humanity as a slave race after seeing what happened to the elves, dwarves and gnomes. Half-elves, traditionally a shunned race outcast by both parents. Half-orcs, the only remaining proof that orcs existed, who dwell in the frigid northern lands. Dragonborn, whose own empire fell in the war between humans and elves. They have abandoned their former gods and instead turned to the worship of the Seraphs, and are now integrated into the Castinellan theocracy. Wechselkind, fake children created by The Fair Folk to replace the mortal children they take as changelings. Though they have fully human minds, their bodies are unaging. Most are destroyed by grieving parents, but some are lucky enough to survive. Their construct nature makes them impervious to disease and highly resistant to poison. Laneshi, pale-skinned, green-haired humanoids from a subaquatic realm whose society embraces necromancy. They are divided into a Fantastic Caste System; those born as twins become mystics, which results in one child being ceremonially sacrificed to grant the other inherent magical powers, whilst single-born join the warrior caste, which actually runs their society. Ogresh, strange, possibly giant-related humanoids who are only ever found alone; few places can support more than one. They reach up to seven feet in height, but grow enormously fat; in their youth, when they are full of wanderlust, they average 200 to 300 pounds in weight, but once they pass a certain point, they become naturally sedentary and their appetites explode, causing them to balloon to an average of 700-800 pounds. Despite their girth, they are primarily characterized by how incredibly charming they are; they are naturally proficient to social skills and can create a Charm Person effect by simply spending a minute in conversation — whilst also being able to resist charm effects themselves. The Downcast are Fallen Angels struggling to deal with their new diminished state. Dreamers are the remnants of a strange race who ruled over the world before the time of elves and dwarves, who sought to evade a calamity that wiped out their civilization by retreating into magical stasis in a fortified vault deep, deep below the dwarves' mountain homeland of the Stehlnewald. Now released by dwarves, they possess strange abilities that stem from their long centuries in enchanted slumber. Finally, the Disembodied are the survivors of the town of Ulmyr's Gate, which was forcibly sucked into another dimension when an attempt to create a permanent portal to the Ethereal Plane went horribly wrong. Now they exist as strange, wraith-like creatures, permanently caught halfway between the material and ethereal planes. The Monster Grimoire offers the new Grudgel race, as well as the option to play non-evil bugbears, faevlins, gnolls, and morbus kobolds.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Emperor Leopold I, who was so bad he actually drove the surviving gods insane through the various regalia granted by them. Even after his death, his soul still lives on as the Beast, one of the major Big Bads of the setting.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5530e11b	type	Founder of the Kingdom
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5530e11b	comment	Founder of the Kingdom: Several: The BÃ¼rach Empire was founded by a 12 year old boy named Thancred (later Indorius), who was chosen by the empire's four gods. The elves and men of the Charneault Kingdom were united by the first king Aymeric Noblecoeur, though only thanks to the sacrifice of an elven lord named Thuridan Sarador. The Valikan Clans were united by a half-orc named Thorgard, said to be the reincarnation of the legendary hero Kentigern. The three Castinellan provinces of Toletum, Faro and Therpena were united by Montego Valieda, the Unifier, after he received a vision and holy mision from the arch seraph Empyreus. Liesech was already a large village, but it only became a city thanks to the wealth of Otto Bouwengracht and the tithe his family paid to the Filth Grazer.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The Castinellan church is the absolute worst, dedicating themselves to Burn the Witch! out of jealousy and fear of losing control, but organized religions are not known for being especially free of grift in this setting.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: Both the BÃ¼rach and the Ostoyan Empires use the title, although BÃ¼rach fits this trope closer, being an expansionist nation consisting of four provinces (Nordenland, Unterland, Rauland and Abendland) united under an emperor. The Ostoyan Empire is an empire In Name Only, being splintered into its two provinces.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: There is no alignment prescriptions on any Vile Transformation, not even becoming a lich or fiend. The book recommends a genuinely good person with one be put through hell to remain that way, but it's entirely possible to be a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire or a benign trickster of a fae. Despite the very dark nature of some of the subclasses, which include things like commanding vermin, serving an elder vampire, or being a herald for plague, nothing prevents a player from still playing them as a Noble Demon or well-intentioned Anti-Hero. The Laneshi have a natural affinity for necromancy, which other races regard with fear and loathing for its association with undeath, but to the Laneshi, it is viewed as a holy power that aids their people. Also, the Laneshi mystics gain this necromantic affinty by having their younger twin sibling sacrificed after birth to become their spiritual guide. A blog post that expands on their racial lore goes into detail about Laneshi culture, and points out that living in the ocean means that many things humans take for granted are all but impossible. This includes most forms of agriculture and food preservation, producing ceramics or metal, and really anything involving the use of fire. Half-orcs are demonized in the southern lands as monsters and battle-crazed brutes, but in their homeland are highly respected and revered as leaders, sages, poets, and champions. The Valika is a harsh, impoverished region, so the half-orc strength and resilience are attributes worthy of respect and admiration, not fear.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Morencia is fantasy Venice, the BÃ¼rach Empire are a mix of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, the Valikan Clans are the Savage North and the Castinellan Provinces are a fundamentalist Ottoman Empire.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The Ostoyan provinces of Soma and Raevo hate each other, as Raevo split away from Soma after the vampires took over and the vampires want it back, but the BÃ¼rach Empire wants to conquer them both. As a result, each has come to the other's aid when they were invaded by the BÃ¼rach Empire, and they also try to avoid getting too caught-up in fighting each other to prevent being conquered whilst weak.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: The Chiropteran Behemoth, a gigantic vampiric bat loyal to the lord of Soma said to be as powerful as some dragons.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5bb574d	type	Fantasy Metals
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5bb574d	comment	Fantasy Metals: Adamantine is hugely important to the setting; the dwarves and gnomes of Stehlenwald only survived because they discovered this ultra-durable metal, which let them outfit their relatively few warriors with arms and armor so efficient that they were able to kill enough humans that humaity collectively d ecided to call for a truce. It also turned out that the veins of adamantine were shielding the long-buried vaults of the Dreamers, an antediluvian humanoid who had fled into magical slumber in a fortified tomb-city deep below a mountain to escape some forgotten catastrophe. The hazy, scrambled memories of the Dreamers also have them convinced of the existence of another, more mystical metal; Kortone, which can apparently be used to manipulate time in some fashion. There are renegade dwarves who now seek to find Kortone in the deeper darkness below the Dreamers' vaults so they can go back in time and thwart humanity's conquest of the dwarves and gnomes.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The vampire lords of Soma are far from benevolent, but they are competent, if only for the simple reason that vampires are parasites and need humans to thrive.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5e66f8ca	type	Pro-Human Transhuman
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5e66f8ca	comment	Pro-Human Transhuman: Technically speaking, none of the Vile Transformations actually turn you evil, not even the Fiend, so it's theoretically possible to try and use any of them to help others — but most of them would be a case of Bad Powers, Good People. Even the ones that don't require you to consume souls to survive, like the Lich, are still pretty cruel, or just unnatural, and you'd be playing a particularly dark Anti-Hero at best. The exception is the Seraph, which literally involves becoming a paragon of goodness and justice to protect others — in addition to becoming The Corruptible, and potentially a Fallen Angel.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5e751f8	type	Fallen Angel
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5e751f8	comment	Downcast vampires weep bloody tears and have a sorrowful song that drives people to madness or even death. Being former Celestials, they also can't be turned like normal vampires.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Ogresh are such big eaters that they invariably live far away from other members of their race — more than one of them in an area could eat a whole village's crops.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_6205f4e5	type	Courtly Love
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_6205f4e5	comment	Courtly Love: In the most Arthurian way possible. Ser Guilhelm le Preux of the Charneault Kingdom loved the king's daughter, Tiphaine. She returned his affections, but as the first daughter of the king, she had to be sent to the elven shamans to learn their ways until the end of her days. Unusually, the king actually approved of the two, but had to send her away because of the ancient oath.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_626b202b	type	The Necrocracy
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_626b202b	comment	The Necrocracy: Soma is a Rule of the Dead example. The upper class consists of vampires.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_69a54df1	type	Chest Burster
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_69a54df1	comment	Chest Burster: The Parasite Patron lets you become one. Starting at 14th level, if you die, a parasite bursts out of your ribcage, and can infect someone else, letting you steal their body to replace your old one.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_6a58a8eb	type	Draconic Humanoid
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_6a58a8eb	comment	Dragonborn, whose own empire fell in the war between humans and elves. They have abandoned their former gods and instead turned to the worship of the Seraphs, and are now integrated into the Castinellan theocracy.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_705f57d0	type	Demon Lords and Archdevils
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_705f57d0	comment	Demon Lords and Archdevils: The Arch Daemons are the angels who decided to embrace a dark path once they were no longer under the domain of their gods. Their number include Venin, the Arch Daemon of Deceit; Tormach, the Arch Daemon of Wrath; Gorodyn, the Arch Daemon of Avarice; Sitri, Arch Daemon of Hedonism; Beleth, Arch Daemon of Fear and Malikir, the Arch Daemon of Pride.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7360a6b6	comment	Despite the very dark nature of some of the subclasses, which include things like commanding vermin, serving an elder vampire, or being a herald for plague, nothing prevents a player from still playing them as a Noble Demon or well-intentioned Anti-Hero.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7404b889	type	Two Siblings In One
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7404b889	comment	Two Siblings In One: Enforced by the Laneshi, who, whenever twins are born, sacrifice the younger twin with a necromantic rite that binds them to the older twin as a spirit guide.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_75735299	type	Vampire Monarch
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_75735299	comment	Vampire Monarch: The Ostoyan province of Soma is ruled by vampires. Originally the Grand Duke was Morgen Hund, it's currently Drago Koshevek.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	comment	God Is Dead: All of them, in fact. Most of them died in a great war against the Aether Kindred. The rest either died from their wounds, went mad and died fighting the other gods, or just left.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7775d0a5	type	Too Bleak, Stopped Caring
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7775d0a5	comment	Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Defied. The sourcebooks talk in detail about how a horror-inspired setting like Grim Hollow can easily make the players feel like nothing they do matter, and thus remove any incentive to actually do good. Dungeon Masters should therefore make sure that the players can win significant victories, even if it comes at great cost and difficulty. Etharis is dark, but the darkness isn't impenetrable.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_77a5657	type	Lovecraftian Superpower
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_77a5657	comment	Lovecraftian Superpower: Players who take the Aberrant Horror Transformation begin turning into Humanoid Abominations, gaining the ability to mutate and shape their flesh in increasingly unnatural ways, including sprouting Combat Tentacles, sprouting claws and sharps tendrils, ect. The Campaign Guide encourages the DM to include elements of Body Horror in this to reflect the how alien and just wrong these abilities are. The Parasite Patron for Warlocks has you become infected with the larval spawn of a world-devouring Eldritch Abomination, gaining both magical abilities and an enchanced physicality... at first. The higher the level you go, the more eldritch and disturbing it gets, until you become a living parasite yourself, able to infect the bodies of others if yours is damaged. The Eldritch Domain Cleric becomes the priest of some unknown, unknowable force beyond the stars, possibly an Eldritch Abomination, or the fragment of a dead god, and gaining psychic, madness inducing abilities as a consequence. Circle Of Mutation Druids forsake the natural order in favor of evolution and change, enhancing and twisting their Wild Shape forms in gruesome but effective ways. They're largely denounced by more traditional druidic circles.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_77c9a628	type	Your Soul Is Mine!
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_77c9a628	comment	Your Soul Is Mine!: Players who take the Lich Transformation gain the ability to trap the souls of those they kill, and store them to be consumed later for sustenence. At higher levels, you become required to consume a certain amount per day without facing penalties (though these penalties, such as not being able to take oppurtunity attacks or take the dash action, would be pretty meaningless anyway to a high-level spellcaster class).
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175	type	Unequal Rites
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175	comment	Unequal Rites: The Castinellan Theocracy preaches a variant of the standard Arch Seraphic faith that derides arcane magic as evil and unholy, whilst divine magic is sacred and pure, resulting in their founding the Arcane Inquisition to root out all arcane magic users. The sourcebooks are very clear that this "holy writ" is in fact purely political in origin; the theocrats don't like the competition. It doesn't help that there's plenty of priests who envy the fact arcane magic is still working just fine.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Elven vampires become ethereal and whisplike, and their Fey heritage make their Charm Person abilities even more potent, to the point where it can work permanently and on creatures other than humanoids.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: One of the major downsides of the Fiend and Lich vile transformations is that every good aligned creature that catches a glimpse of your true appearance will become immediately hostile. An inversion also applies to Seraphs. With the Primordial transformation, non-Chaotic creatures will freak out in the same way.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7ea8f5ce	type	Knight in Shining Armor
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7ea8f5ce	comment	Knight in Shining Armor: The entire aesthetic of the Charneault Kingdom is based around Arthurian and Fairytale motifs, so of course this is a big part of it. In particular, knights swear oaths to nature spirits, swearing to protect them and uphold honor in return for powers.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7f67e11	type	The Night That Never Ends
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7f67e11	comment	The Night That Never Ends: A lot of Soma is under constant magical darkness that seeps out of the City Bellow.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7fa1f01c	type	Dracolich
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_7fa1f01c	comment	Dracolich: There's one known example of this in Etharis; the zombie-like Gegazol, a she-dragon who killed a powerful daemon but found herself cursed with a lich-like undead state when its blood oozed down her throat. She is cursed to reform near the skull of the daemon that cursed her whenever she is killed, and a combination of the daemon's subconcious urgings and her repeated deaths-and-rebirths has driven her utterly mad.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_8186d60d	type	Not Growing Up Sucks
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_8186d60d	comment	Not Growing Up Sucks: The Wechselkinder, enchanted golems made by faeries to resembled kidnapped children, age at the same rate as humans mentally, but their physical bodies never age. As a result, even the few who aren't immediately cast out or killed by the parents of the child they replaced are still forced to contend with the awkwardness of being a perpetual child.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The BÃ¼rach Empire are way past their prime. The emperor is little more than a puppet for the church, there is talk about secession among the provinces, their infrastructure was ravaged in a recent civil war and they are trying and failing at conquering their neighbouring nation. Their territory is also greatly reduced.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_82a4fadc	type	Our Liches Are Different
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_82a4fadc	comment	Our Liches Are Different: Players can become this with the Lich vile transformation. Notably, it's the only one with a level requirement, being restricted to spellcasters with access to 7th level magic.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_851dda8f	comment	Players who take the Aberrant Horror Transformation begin turning into Humanoid Abominations, gaining the ability to mutate and shape their flesh in increasingly unnatural ways, including sprouting Combat Tentacles, sprouting claws and sharps tendrils, ect. The Campaign Guide encourages the DM to include elements of Body Horror in this to reflect the how alien and just wrong these abilities are.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_859ec5d8	comment	Wechselkind, fake children created by The Fair Folk to replace the mortal children they take as changelings. Though they have fully human minds, their bodies are unaging. Most are destroyed by grieving parents, but some are lucky enough to survive. Their construct nature makes them impervious to disease and highly resistant to poison.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: The vampire lords of Soma once sent an army of their most powerful (read:undead) soldiers to lay siege to the Order of Dawn to wipe them out once and for all. The Order broke the siege, and the Grand Duke received a letter from the Order:
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_86ba007a	type	Bad Powers, Good People
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_86ba007a	comment	Bad Powers, Good People: Most of the sub-classes offered in the Player's Guide revolve around less than heroic abilities — from the Blood Magic fueled Sangromancer, Circle Of Blood, and First Vampire Patron, to the eldritch and unnatural Eldritch Domain, Circle Of Mutation, and Parasite Patron — but whether or not your character uses them for evil is up to you and your DM. Not that doing so will be easy mind you...
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47	comment	The Eldritch Domain Cleric becomes the priest of some unknown, unknowable force beyond the stars, possibly an Eldritch Abomination, or the fragment of a dead god, and gaining psychic, madness inducing abilities as a consequence.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_88699eee	type	Bargain with Heaven
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_88699eee	comment	Bargain with Heaven: Celestial Warlocks can exist here as in every other setting. The knights of the Charneault Kingdom also make covenants with nature spirits to gain power so that they can better protect the smallfolk and nature.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_8c00901a	type	Creepy Good
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_8c00901a	comment	Creepy Good: Whilst the races of Etharis may be spooky and many of the subclasses have obviously sinister bases, nothing stops any player character from being a genuinely heroic and compassionate individual... who is still creepy as all hell.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: Any player who takes a Vile Transformation gains the ability to make themselves appear human, but it still requires concentration: falling unconscious, using a spell that requires concentration, entering Holy Ground (or Unholy Ground for the Seraph), or just losing control of your emotions can all cause the disguise to drop.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a	type	Our Goblins Are Different
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a	comment	Our Goblins Are Different: Bugbears on Etharis have been widely infected with a magical Hate Plague by Tormund, driving the vast majority of the race into a homicidal insanity. The Faevlin descend from a tribe of goblins that made the mistake of trying to double-cross a fey master, and now appear as regular goblins with teal skin and upside down heads.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_91cecc1e	type	Exaggerated Trope
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_91cecc1e	comment	Exaggerated Trope: Leopold's madness was in fact so bad that it seeped into the holy artifacts he carried and infected the actual gods themselves, which directly led to their deaths.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_93ed8515	comment	The hazy, scrambled memories of the Dreamers also have them convinced of the existence of another, more mystical metal; Kortone, which can apparently be used to manipulate time in some fashion. There are renegade dwarves who now seek to find Kortone in the deeper darkness below the Dreamers' vaults so they can go back in time and thwart humanity's conquest of the dwarves and gnomes.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_95d889b9	type	The Highwayman
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_95d889b9	comment	The Highwayman: The Highway Rider is a Roguish Archetype, that involves riding a loyal steed to make hit-and-run attacks.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The vampires of Soma are utter bastards. To give an example, in a short tale from the campaign guide, a mayor awaits permission to build a road through his town that would turn it into a trading hub, and expects to have to pay in literal blood. He is pleasantly surprised when they grant it without asking payment... until a few months later, when his daughter is invited to a ball... What's worse is that Transhuman Treachery does not apply in this setting; the aristocrats really are just that selfish and cruel, vampire curse or no.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_970c8a84	type	Big Fun
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_970c8a84	comment	Ogresh, strange, possibly giant-related humanoids who are only ever found alone; few places can support more than one. They reach up to seven feet in height, but grow enormously fat; in their youth, when they are full of wanderlust, they average 200 to 300 pounds in weight, but once they pass a certain point, they become naturally sedentary and their appetites explode, causing them to balloon to an average of 700-800 pounds. Despite their girth, they are primarily characterized by how incredibly charming they are; they are naturally proficient to social skills and can create a Charm Person effect by simply spending a minute in conversation — whilst also being able to resist charm effects themselves.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_98b42372	type	God of Chaos
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_98b42372	comment	God of Chaos: Ulmyr, the Nordenland god of chaos and magic.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_99155362	type	Healer God
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_99155362	comment	Healer God: Aurelia used to be the more proactive version of this as the goddess of protection, but the arch seraph Miklas resembles this trope more.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_9961d340	type	God of Order
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_9961d340	comment	God of Order: Once an unnamed god of justice, currently the arch seraph Solyma. Also the Rauland god Galt, god of order and craftmanship.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While Anita von Raiza knew that the Bouwengracht family had a deal with some kind of entity, she probably didn't expect that slaying them would release the Weeping Pox.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_9f3857d5	type	Draw Aggro
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_9f3857d5	comment	Draw Aggro: The Bulwark Warrior is based around this trope, using abilities to keep hostiles focused on them, and not their allies.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Interestingly, vampirism in Etharis seems to amplify natural traits of the race it infects, though there are plenty of old-fashioned vampires running around too, particularily in Soma, which is ruled by them. Players can become vampires too though a dreadful transformation. Bugbear vampires turn even more brutish and violent than normal, caring little for their own safety in favour of savage rage. Their muscles also grow to the point of bulging out of their fur. Under proper direction from an elder, they do still retain their stealthy skills from before the infection, though. Downcast vampires weep bloody tears and have a sorrowful song that drives people to madness or even death. Being former Celestials, they also can't be turned like normal vampires. Dragonborn vampires turn into cunning and calculating killers who enjoy the thrill of the hunt, and their breath weapon becomes necrotic. Dreamer vampires feast on psychic energy instead of blood, and can trap its victims in nightmares to feed on them. In-game this is represented by their bite dealing psychic damage. Dwarf vampires gain a stronger connection to the earth, burrying into it instead of turning to mist, and they have a strange fear of silver. Elven vampires become ethereal and whisplike, and their Fey heritage make their Charm Person abilities even more potent, to the point where it can work permanently and on creatures other than humanoids. Gnome vampires can influence beasts more easily and are often surrounded by animal servants. They also have a strong resistance against being influenced by charm magic. Halfling vampires become quicker and more agile, and have a hard time keeping their hedonistic urges in check. Laneshi vampires are thirstier than other vampires, and can't survive for long without water or blood. On the bright side, they aren't bothered by running water and holy water is less effective against them. Ogresh vampires are monstrous gluttons who eat flesh, muscle, and bone rather than just blood. Their natural social skills also amplify.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a330bff	type	Angelic Transformation
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a330bff	comment	Angelic Transformation: One of the transformations in the campaign guide, the Seraph. While the Seraph-to-be gains great power to smite the evil and protect the innocent, they also get a target on their back for every evil creature for miles.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a36e5a46	type	Love Goddess
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a36e5a46	comment	Love Goddess: Once Vetara, the goddess of love, succeeded by the arch seraph Morael who's more about devotion to a greater cause.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a52faac6	type	Benevolent Conspiracy
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a52faac6	comment	Benevolent Conspiracy: At the height of BÃ¼rach's civil war, people from each of the four provinces came together to take out the mad emperor. A priestess named Talana from Abendland opened the gates to the palace for the assassins, mages from Nordenland prepared means to cure the gods' madness, sages from Rauland forged weapons that could be smuggled into the palace and the retired Unterland general Dimitri Speir orchestrated the whole thing. Nobody was especially upset when they pulled it off.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a6eb94b0	type	Cannot Cross Running Water
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a6eb94b0	comment	Cannot Cross Running Water: Vampires have this weakness — being in running water will cause both acid damage, and a Glamour Failure.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_a971e83c	comment	Hidden Elf Village: Lots of them in the Charneault Kingdom, with Tol Leyemil being the largest.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_aa9c5801	type	MegaCorp
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_aa9c5801	comment	Megacorp: The Augustine Trading Company are the fantasy variant of this, being a blatant Expy of the East-Indian Trading Company. It has a hand in every major trade, although focusing its resources in the weapon trade, and thanks to recent political upheaval in Morencia it now owns a majority of the seats on Morencia's ruling council.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ab27d196	type	Apocalypse Cult
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ab27d196	comment	Apocalypse Cult: The Celestial Gate of BÃ¼rach have grown in power to almost rival the state religion, and believe that the world is too corrupt to ever be saved without burning it all down and start anew. They might be right. The Druids of Thrull invert this by actively trying to postpone the apocalypse, albeit by human sacrifice. The Eldritch Domain for Clerics is themed around this, becoming the doomspeaking prophet of some Eldritch Abomination — you even get to make apocalyptic prophecies as your Channel Divinity.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ac6ecb56	type	Plague Doctor
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ac6ecb56	comment	Plague Doctor: A Wizard subclass here, based on blending magic and science to create various potions and poisons to alternately heal and harm — the masks are to protect themselves from their own ingredients, which are frequently toxic.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: There are several academies in the major cities of Etharis, with Nordenland in BÃ¼rach specializing in the arcane arts. The most (in)famous of these, however, is Ravencourt Sanctuary in Ostoya, which is located on an island of the coast and cloaked in supernatural mist and protected through countless magical means. Every seven years, a barge arrives in the nearby city and ten students of the arts climb aboard. Nine of them return seven years later, and the cycle continues.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Gormadraug was this to the the Primordials, forcing them to fight to death only to have them resurrected so they could do it again. The gods were this to Gormadraug, though they treated him more like a pet.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: One of the many monsters in the Monster Grimoire is the Gasdra, a three-headed, oversized, carnivorous goose created through a dark ritual used by hags or evil fey that involves placing a goose's egg in a golden bowl full of newborn baby's blood to soak for four hours in the dark of a new moon. If that's not enough, by ritually feeding seven newborn babies to a gasdra and painting its feathers with the collected black yolks of at least seventy of its own corrupt eggs under the dark of a new moon, the gasdra will grow into a giant, seven-headed, pitch-black version of itself big enough to be used as a riding beast.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b58bc88e	type	One Twin Must Die
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b58bc88e	comment	One Twin Must Die: When Laneshi give birth to twins, the second-born twin is sacrificed through necromantic rites and becomes a spirit-guide to the first-born, who grows up to become a member of the "Mystic" caste.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: Emperor Leopold I of the BÃ¼rach Empire was clearly insane from a young age and pretty much everyone knew that putting him on the throne would be a terrible idea. He was unfortunately the only valid candidate, and no one dared go against the Hearthkeepers, so he got his crown. He almost immediately sparked a religiously motivated civil war. Exaggerated Trope: Leopold's madness was in fact so bad that it seeped into the holy artifacts he carried and infected the actual gods themselves, which directly led to their deaths.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: Cold Iron Keep, in Kandar, started out as the castle of an evil mage, who was eventually defeated by adventurers and the keep was later converted to a prison. Among others, it contains a vampire frost giant, a mage who turned herself into basically Medusa and Gorm, a man who burns permanently with Coldfire. His situation has understandably driven him quite mad, and he now considers himself a herald of the Great Wyrm who's destined to destroy the world.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b91eaeea	type	Must Be Invited
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b91eaeea	comment	Must Be Invited:The Vampire Vile Transformation nets you this weakness. As an addition, if you're forced in against your will, you take psychic damage every turn until you leave. Ironically, the Fzeg, a creature cursed with both vampirism and werewolfism simultaneously, lacks this weakness.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: The Campaign Guide offers eight different curses that ultimately result in rather horrendous versions of this, hence why curses are explicitly always evil even in this setting: The Curse of Ravenous Hunger turns the victim into a Bloated Gastromorph; The Curse of Lost Sentiment turns the victim into a Dream Whisperer; The Curse of Insatiable Greed creates Verminous Abominations; The Curse of Uncontrollable Wrath turns victims into Avatars of Slaughter; The Curse of Conceited Obsession turns the victim into a Weeping Willow; The Curse of Damned Aging makes Body Snatchers; The Curse of Foul Blight turns the poor soul into a Plague Carrion and the Curse of Ill-Fated Fortune turns the victim into a Herald of Calamity. It's implied the student who doesn't come back on a class in the Ravencourt Sanctuary is turned into the sea dragons that guard it.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ba907fe2	type	Entitled to Have You
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ba907fe2	comment	Entitled to Have You: The BÃ¼rach Empire are the political version of this toward the Ostoyan Empire. Since Ostoya was founded by political refugees from BÃ¼rach, many in BÃ¼rach feel that Ostoya rightfully belongs to them.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Oath Of Zeal Paladins are consumed by hatred for one paticular group, species, or force that they believe (possibly even correctly) to be the most vile evil in Etharis, and abandon things like compassion and honor in their pursuit to cleanse the world of this paticular evil.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_bfaff026	comment	Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: The "Way of Pride" subclass for monks literally embraces this trope as their founding ideology, encouraging disciples to embrace their confidence and ego as a way to hone, refine and perfect their sense of selves.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_c0f8b680	comment	Cool God / Trickster God: Myria, the god of Joy. Their successor, the arch seraph Aphaeleon, is a whole different deal.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_c1105f41	comment	Hold the Line: The nobility of Ostoya ordered Morgen Hund and his company to hold back the ravenous undead hordes of the City Below while their mages collapsed the entrance. This came back to bite them when Hund returned as a vampire and turned the entire aristocracy.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: The druids of Thrull perform sacrifices to prevent the awakening of Gormadraug, the Great wyrm.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_c81e2bba	comment	Necromancer: The College Of Requiems is a Bard who focuses on Necromancy, weaving songs of grieving and mourning that can make the dead dance to their tune. They even gain an ability to buff their undead minions just like the Bardic Inspiration does for their living allies.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: Halfling vampires often exploit their race's natural childish and innocent appearance to make hunters hesitate before killing them.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: When the priests of each of the BÃ¼rach gods went on a holy mission to find someone to unite the provinces, they found Thancred, a boy who, at the ripe old age of 12, had slain a giant and brought a dead lamb back to life. By all accounts he was a good ruler, taking the name Indorius.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The conspiracy that killed emperor Leopold managed to accomplish the deed, but fractured regarding the four holy artifacts. The original plan was to bring them to mages in Nordenland in the hopes of finding some cure for the madness that infected the gods, but Nordenland was split between loyalists and separatists, both of whom tried to get the artifacts.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Compared to the other nations, the Charneault Kingdom is by far the nicest. In a world where most other nations practice human sacrifice, brutal inquisitions, good old tyranny or is ruled by literal parasites, the Charneault Kingdom is a nation ruled by a kind and just king, where chivalry is the order of the day, noble knights make covenants with nature spirits to protect the land and humans live in harmony with elves. Of course, it's taken a downturn lately after renegade elves decided to mess with the rhythm of nature, but it is still the best place to live for smallfolk and nobles alike. It serves as a stark contrast to BÃ¼rach, Soma and Castinella, showing that each of those has the potential to be kind and benevolent, but chose not to.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: One of the transformation-exclusive magic items available to a Fiend-player is a leather duster that allows one to deal extra fire-damage on an attack.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d0bab7f5	type	Royal Inbreeding
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d0bab7f5	comment	Royal Inbreeding: The BÃ¼rach Empire had a bad case of this, since their first emperor was blessed by the gods and it was thought diluting the divine blood would weaken it. Needless to say, this came back to bite them. And they still haven't learned their lesson.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d3d2d6	type	Classical Movie Vampire
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d3d2d6	comment	Classical Movie Vampire: The primary inspiration for the vampires of the setting. Bloodsuckers, aristocrats and evil to the core — and not for any inherent reason to vampirism, they're just elitist jerks.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d78ea1dc	type	A Lighter Shade of Grey
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d78ea1dc	comment	A Lighter Shade of Grey: Most conflicts in the setting are between dark grey nations and light grey nations, like Soma (a necrocracy ruled selfishly, but competently, by vampires) and Raevo (a Magocracy that seems to have made a Deal with the Devil but provides shelter without question for everyone who has been victimized by the undead and protects magic-users).
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: Zigzagged. Arcane and primal magic are doing just fine. Divine magic, however, has become steadily rarer if not weaker since the death of the original gods, resulting in a marked decrease in the number of clerics and paladins.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_daba0e87	comment	Acquired Poison Immunity: Green Reaper rangers gain resistance to poison damage and advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, implied to be a side effect of the various toxins they've been exposed to through their work.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: Surprisingly few considering the dark fantasy genre. The only ones mentioned in the Campaign Guide are a coven that supposedly lurks in the Black Mire of Ostoya
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_dfa1ee91	type	Changeling Tale
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_dfa1ee91	comment	Changeling Tale: Etharis' Fey have been known to kidnap children from their beds, taking them back to their realm and leaving enchanted constructs of clay, wood or ceramic disguised as children behind. The kidnapped kids are changed into Fey themselves, while the constructs eventually become the Weschelkind — living constructs perpetually stuck in childhood, wandering a world that has no place for them.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Gormadraug, the Prismatic Wyrm and first living thing created by the gods of Etharis. At first he was just a tiny pet for the gods, whom they abused and finally abandoned on the primordial Etharis. Millenia of feasting on the four elements in their raw form, however, turned him into a powerful elemental dragon, and the progenitor of the Primordial race â€” it also left him with a massive grudge against both the gods and their favored creation: mortals. He's currently sleeping after being killed by a band of ancient heroes, and his four firstborn children are working hard to keep him that way.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e3b4ef68	type	Stock Gods
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e3b4ef68	comment	Stock Gods: Etharis used to have this type of pantheon, but they have since died and been replaced by Arch Seraphs and Daemons. See Demon Lords and Archdevils and Celestial Paragons and Archangels for more info on them. God of Knowledge: Used to be Typharia, currently the arch seraph Zabriel. Healer God: Aurelia used to be the more proactive version of this as the goddess of protection, but the arch seraph Miklas resembles this trope more. War God: Used to be Maligant, the god of strategy and cunning in war, he is replaced by the arch daemon Tormach and the arch seraph Empyreus representing both sides of war. Love Goddess: Once Vetara, the goddess of love, succeeded by the arch seraph Morael who's more about devotion to a greater cause. God of Order: Once an unnamed god of justice, currently the arch seraph Solyma. Also the Rauland god Galt, god of order and craftmanship. God of Chaos: Ulmyr, the Nordenland god of chaos and magic. Cool God / Trickster God: Myria, the god of Joy. Their successor, the arch seraph Aphaeleon, is a whole different deal. Wealth God: Used to be Jezra, god of commerce. The arch daemon Gorodyn has taken the domain of greed.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e50e82e5	type	Nemesis Weapon
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e50e82e5	comment	Nemesis Weapon: Ardor and Zeal — the former is a hellish battle axe used by the demons, while the latter is an angelic warhammer belonging to the seraphs. Both were built when the greatest blacksmiths in Heaven and Hell were inspired by visions, unbenknowsnt to each other inspired by the same beings, and are currently locked tight in their respective sides' deepest vaults. They're virtually impervious to harm by anything but each other.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The Primordials are a dead ringer for the Princes of Elemental Evil from D&D proper. Gormadraug, the primordial of Coldfire, is one of NÃÃ°hÃ¶ggr, the serpent that bit the roots of the World Tree in Norse Mythology. This is not the first time the name Beleth has been used for a demon that inspires terror. Celestial Gate is, if not a true expy of Heaven's Gate, wiggling its eyebrows while mouthing "look over there".
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e58dd5	type	The Jinx
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e58dd5	comment	The Jinx: Rogues of the "Misfortune Bringer" subclass are able to literally inflict bad luck on their foes.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Laneshi's liberal use of necromancy and cultural willingness to sacrifice their secondborn children to strengthen their firstborn is viewed as horrifying and monstrous by surface-dwellers; to the Laneshi, it's a necessity: their underwater kingdom is incredibly dangerous, and daily survival is a struggle. Why wouldn't they want to make their children stronger while simultaneously decreasing the number of mouths to feed? From their point of view, all they're doing is combining two children into one, and giving them a much better chance at staying alive.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The transformation into a Fey means your bound to the letter of any agreement you make — the letter, not the spirit.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_eb3c0a1	type	The Kingslayer
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_eb3c0a1	comment	The Kingslayer: Dmitri Speir, a retired general from Unterland in BÃ¼rach was part of the conspiracy to assassinate the mad emperor Leopold I. Afterward, he wrote a signed confession and committed suicide. Despite his status as a traitor in the eyes of the Hearthkeepers, he was buried with full honors.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_eb5ab60f	type	Slow Transformation
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_eb5ab60f	comment	Slow Transformation: The Vile Transformation mechanic introduced in the Campaign Guide works like this. After starting the transformation, the recipient goes through four transformation levels (not necesarrily correlating to player levels) each of which offers one of three transformation boons, and one drawback.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ecb3970b	type	Anti-Magical Faction
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ecb3970b	comment	Anti-Magical Faction: The Arcanist Inquisition operate in the Castinellan Provinces to root out practitioners of magic, since arcane magic is considered a heresy there. Many accusations are awfully convenient for the Provinces... A blogpost on Castinellan dragonborn notes that a significant portion of dragonborn loathe arcane magic, because this was the weapon used by humanity in ancient times to destroy their homeland and drive them into the wilderness. For this reason, dragonborn are heavily involved in the Arcanist Inquisition.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_edcc813f	comment	Laneshi, pale-skinned, green-haired humanoids from a subaquatic realm whose society embraces necromancy. They are divided into a Fantastic Caste System; those born as twins become mystics, which results in one child being ceremonially sacrificed to grant the other inherent magical powers, whilst single-born join the warrior caste, which actually runs their society.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	comment	A World Half Full: Player's and DM's are encouraged to think of Etharis in these terms — the world is dark, and cruel, and it's not getting any better. There's no one Big Bad who you can defeat and fix everything, and every victory is a battle in a war that will probably never end. Every life saved and good deed has a very real cost, and heroes and good people will die along the way. But because of all of that, it means every victory, no matter how small, is that much more valuable — in a world of bottomless darkness, even one small candle stands out as a beacon.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_f1a77879	comment	Plaguemaster: The Oath Of Pestilence Paladin, as the name suggests, has powers revolving around spreading disease. According to the Player's Guide, they see plague and death as a purifying element, purging the world of those too weak to endure and relishing their own strength. Morbus Kobolds, from the Monster Grimoire, worship the Filth Grazer and so widely believe they have a religious obligation to spread disease to the other races. Those who dissent are exiled at best.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Outright encouraged by the Player's Guide; Etharis is not a good place to live, and a large portion of it does not want to be saved or even allow for happiness in it. So, when it does happen, it should come off as something that had to be worked for.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Players can turn into one with the Lycanthrope vile transformation. It doesn't turn you evil, but the animal mind cannot distinguish between loved ones and enemies when looking for food. Lief Sarvif is a lycanthrope from the Valikan clans who actively oppose the druids performing human sacrifice by saving slaves and recruiting them into his pack.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_f9339f97	type	The Red Mage
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_f9339f97	comment	The Red Mage: The Plague Doctor subclass for Wizards is a wizard who focuses on combining magic, alchemy and herbalism to add increased healing capabilities to a class normally focused on destructive and combat-orientated magic. Zigzagged in that the Plague Doctor also uses this knowledge to punish foes with noxious poisons and fast-brewed diseases.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Order of Dawn is trying to protect the world from the vampire aristocrats of Soma, but the book does admit that calling them fanatics would not be out of line.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_fdad625e	type	Was Once a Man
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: The Beast, an enigmatic entity that roams the BÃ¼rach Empire, might have been this. Certain members of the Celestial Gate doomsday cult believe it may in fact have been the mad emperor Leopold I, who returned as a corrupting revenant after his death. This claim is considered heresy under Imperial Law, obviously. It's implied that the monsters that guard Ravencourt sanctuary are actually the students that don't return from their studies. One of the flagship mechanics of the setting are Vile Transformations that players may go through, turning them into Liches, Vampires, Werewolves, Fiends, Seraphs, Fae, Elementals and Aberrant Horrors.
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Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Foul Waterfowl / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	God Is Dead / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Hidden Elf Village / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Humans Are Bastards / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	One Twin Must Die / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Parasitic Immortality / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Plague Doctor / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Plaguemaster / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Tabletop Games of the 2020s / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	The Highwayman / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	The Magic Goes Away / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	The Night That Never Ends / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Too Bleak, Stopped Caring / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Two Siblings In One / int_90e7823
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Voluntary Vassal / int_90e7823
GrimHollow	sameAs	Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game)

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