Rabid Fiends,driven by an endless Hunger

The Abhorrent vampires are the results of Lord Nachzehrer’s twisted experiments, an army of ghoulish abominations, little more than monsters, rabid fiends driven by endless hunger and bloodthirst with little capacity for thought or reason. These monstrosities are concocted from a bestial strain of the vampiric disease, mixed with muddled physiological derivatives. Twisted now and degenerative, the lord’s servants are far flung from the more aristocratic bloodlines of the region.

For his twisted studies, Lord Nachzehrer has been exiled and shunned by the rest of his vampire kin, but in his isolation, his experiments continue, and the Lord grows stronger as he researches the still-beating heart of an ancient evil..

From the Sewers they Rise

Below Lord Nachzehrer’s great castle, there exists an extensive and elaborate network of labyrinthian tunnels and mechanisms that is by all accounts today, a technological marvel. Filled with mechanical pumps and levers, gates, and drain systems. The place is damp and dark, the stone walkways slick with water, and filled with hazards like flooded rooms and collapsing maintenance structures.

Worse yet, Lord Nachzehrer’s creeping terrors and bloodsucking monstrosities shamble about in the lightless tunnels and chambers. At the top of the sewers are the lower levels of the Lord’s laboratory, where he conducts experiments and creates his mutated monstrosities.

Stemming from his fastness, his abominable legions have spread across underground crypts and shadowed tunnels throughout Doaden, clawing to the surface at night to feast on the living, a truly gruesome sight. For, unlike other vampire kin, the Abhorrents have a taste for fresh flesh, frenziedly tearing off chunks of meat and limbs to swallow whole as they suck down the blood and marrow of their victims.

The Sanguine Lord

Lord Nachzehrer

Master of the Abhorrents
Lord Nachzehrer is the ruler of the Abhorred
hordes.
Once an honored member of the Sanguine Court,
his obsession with blood infusions and genetic
modifications had irreversible effects on his
personality and physiology.
He is driven incessantly to become himself the
perfect form of an apex predator, to emulate the
perfect hunter of the night, as are the Cryptstalkers
and Bloodhounds.
On his insane quest, Lord Nachzehrer began to
gain power by mixing his blood and that of his
servants with any fiendish things that stalk the dark
corners of the world. With every new infusion, his
body and mind changed, becoming more erratic
and unstable, until he was exiled to live among
his forlorn castle, far from the courts of his former
kin. There, he delves deeply into lost sciences in
his laboratory, where his experiments continue
unhindered.
Though a wayward lord, Nachzehrer still holds
a tenuous relationship with the Sanguine and other
vampire bloodlines, who value and use his creations
for their own purposes but shun him for his deviancy
otherwise, afraid of what he has become.
In his exile, Lord Nachzehrer has grown incredibly
powerful, drawing from a strange, enormous beating
heart which he keeps chained within his fortress
keep, found in some devilish place only he may know.

Bloodsucker Dragon

Serpent of Cursed Blood
The Bloodsucker Dragon is an undead monstrosity, slain by Lord Nachzehrer in a faraway realm, but
not before he infected it with a specially concocted strain of his own creation.
Now the dragon is risen again and morphed by the corrupting influences of its blood gift. It lies chained
below its dark master’s laboratory, to be studied and tormented by the lord’s everlasting experiments. Yet
of all Lord Nachzehrer’s creations, this is his most prized. He keeps the dragon’s still-beating heart within
his tower study, where he draws from it rare and evolving bioagents and virulent anomalies, to study and
implement in his future designs.
The beast is cursed, and so long as its heart beats ever on, the dragon may never truly die, rising again and again from its tortures.

Twisted Experiments

Bloodfiends

Ravenous Mutants
Bloodfiends are Lord Nachzehrer’s twisted
creations. Frenzied and mindless, they are driven
only by insatiable hunger and instinctual need to
feed.
Their genes are impure and their physiology
degenerative, created by injecting humans with
a cocktail of essence based on Bloodhound
blood, rather than any pure vampiric strain.
Lord Nachzehrer uses these abominations
to guard his crypts and sewers, but they often
shamble out into the world to feast at night. They
reside in dark underground tunnels and crypts,
clawing their way to the surface to ambush
unwary prey.

Bloodfiend Brutes

Hulking Abominations
Brute Fiends are the abominable cousins to the
Bloodfiends, the results of new mutagenetic tests
conducted by Lord Nachzehrer.
They are bigger, stronger, and more resilient than
their counterparts, though driven by the same
incessant and instinctual need to feed.
These shambling horrors are a grotesque
sight, their internal organs morphing into
deadly weapons which the brute ejects
from its stomach to assault its prey.

Bloodghast

Abominable Experiments
The Abhorrent Mage is a fearsome foe, a twisted
being of malign intents, the dark servant of Lord
Nachzehrer.
In the shadowed halls of the lord’s great keep,
this abhorrent mage conducts all manner of sinister
experimentation, bending the laws of science to the
dark master’s will.
It is a keeper of dark lore and knowledge, twisting
together spells lost in ancient tomes, a harbinger of
shadow and death.

Prison Wretch

Sufferer of the Change

Prison Wretches are often heard before they are
seen. These squalid beings wander the corridors of
Lord Nachzehrer’s twisting dungeons and sinister
laboratories, moaning in agony, tied down or
stumbling about in dazed confusion.
They were human once, long ago, though they can
scarcely remember their lives before this current
nightmare existence. They are abductees from the
nearby towns and villages, or unlucky merchants and
adventurers just passing by the nearby roads.
The Lord himself and his abhorrent mage study
these subjects with interest, injecting them with all
manner of needles, emptying an array of mixtures
into their blood.
Some bubble, some burn, some seethe, and some
pulse. Crimson, ochre, chartreuse, and cerulean.
The endless concoctions are dispensed liberally,
almost without rhyme nor reason, though certainly
following some strict process discernable only to the
Lord and his assistants.
The dark overseers watch with interest, hastily
scribing copious notes in large tomes and ledgers
as they analyze the physiological changes to these
unfortunate souls.
Whether the wretch lives or dies, or transcends
into something new, it can be assumed that they
have served some greater purpose for their new dark masters.

Vampiric Terrors

The Abhorrent Mage

Arcane Attendant
The Abhorrent Mage is a fearsome foe, a twisted
being of malign intents, the dark servant of Lord
Nachzehrer.
In the shadowed halls of the lord’s great keep,
this abhorrent mage conducts all manner of sinister
experimentation, bending the laws of science to the
dark master’s will.
It is a keeper of dark lore and knowledge, twisting
together spells lost in ancient tomes, a harbinger of
shadow and death.

Bloodhound

Ravenous Beasts
Bloodhounds are vampiric beasts, infected long ago by a bestial strain of the
blood virus, and evolving a symbiotic relationship with the disease over many ages.
The bloodhound’s senses are unmatched, able to smell trails of blood from up to
150 miles away and a fortnight old. They are used by Lord Nachzehrer and other
vampires to hunt their living prey.
Bloodhound blood is considered lowly and impure, but it has its uses. Lord
Nachzehrer harvests it and injects it into human slaves, creating hordes of
Bloodfiends, fiendish humanoid mutants driven by only bloodthirst and hunger.

Cryptstalker Elite

Augmented Predator
Cryptstalker Elites are the strongest of their bestial kin, harnessed
by vampire lords for their unmatched strength, dexterity, and predatory
instincts.
The Abhorrents have managed to tame a few of these great beasts,
binding them to their will and using them to hunt down their enemies.
The vampires dress the beasts in thick plated armaments, sacrificing their
natural predatory abilities relying on dexterity, but granting them increased
combat prowess in return. To their limbs are attacked sharpened metal
scythes and blades, making these already deadly predator into the ultimate killing machines.

Bloodsucker

Gangled Cave Beasts
Bloodsuckers are carrion lurkers, always in search of the crimson juices
running through the veins of their victims. With their elongated, dented trunks
hanging from their horrid, distorted faces, they dry their unfortunate prey in a
matter of seconds.
Although a quick death, it is an agonizing way to go, as the monster cares
little about easing the pain of its target.

Cryptstalkers

Primordial Predators
Cryptstalkers are ancient bat-like monstrosities,
primeval species that evolved over millennia to be
the perfect ambush predator.
They are ancient apex predators, whom some
believe were once the source of the first strain of the
vampiric disease.
Though blind, their senses are unmatched,
hunting their prey swiftly and soundlessly, using
a combination of echolocation and an arsenal of
deadly natural weapons.
Though most are wild, the Abhorrents have
managed to tame a few of these great beasts, turning
them to their will and using them to hunt down their enemies.

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The predatory Abhorrents are the focus of the RPG Module - Abhorrence, which sees adventurers scrabbling desperately through the dank sewer-laboratories under Nachnzehrer's Castle.

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Abhorrence

The party is ambushed, waking up bruised and battered, trapped in an extensive sewer complex, below a strange and marvelous fortress. These are the labyrinthian passageways below Lord Nachzehrer’s keep, a powerful vampire running bizarre experiments, injecting humans with degenerate strains of the vampiric disease.

To escape, the party has to venture deep into the sewers in search of missing components to fix a complex piece of machinery. Yet adventurers must be wary, for danger lurks behind every corner in this place; as they pass through tight corridors, pitch-black chambers, and noxious tunnels, where creeping terrors and bloodsucking monstrosities shamble about in the lightless junctions and dank passageways.

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