Ghoul Physiology

Ghoul Physiology
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Power/Ability to:	Use the traits of ghouls.

"A ghoul, as I'm sure you know, is a disgusting creature who opens graves and feeds on corpses."

― Baron Sardonicus

The power to use the abilities of ghouls. Variation of Mythic Physiology.

Also Called

• Ghoul Mimicry
• Ghul Mimicry/Physiology

Capabilities

User with this ability either is or can transform into an ghoul (literally: to seize) a cannibalistic monster that feeds on corpses and living flesh, abducts young children to eat and lures unwary people into abandoned places, often classified as undead. These creatures usually dwell in graveyards and cemeteries.

Ghouls are one of the least consistently portrayed creatures in fiction, partly because the phrases "ghoul" and "ghoulish" are poorly defined terms that can refer to anything or anybody interested in the macabre and morbid, giving writers the ability to name almost any cannibalistic, flesh-eating or just creepy monster after them.

Besides being creatures associated with death, cannibalism, and degeneracy, ghouls (as monsters) can come in a plethora of types and subtypes. Some of the more common varieties include:

• Cursed Ghouls - Former humans who have been transformed into a ravenous horde of monsters or a barely sentient cannibal clan by magic or divine punishment. Typically punished for inhuman acts such as greed, murder, or often cannibalism, these former men are still alive, but turned into flesh eating monsters that typically haunt graveyards. They often have razor sharp claws, fangs and/or muzzles, long limbs and a lot of hair. Compare to wendigo.
• Genie Ghouls - The Islamic version of ghuls was a demonic child-eating shape-shifting and assassinators jinn that inhabited graveyards. In modern fiction ghouls rarely get such a degree of supernatural power.
• Lovecraftian Ghouls - Ghouls as a living and non-human species, often with Lovecraft's distinctive canine muzzle and ears, and with a pale or greenish cast. Other types of ghouls as their own living race do occasionally appear in other media.
• Mutant Ghouls - Former humans who have been transformed into a ravenous horde of monsters or a barely sentient cannibal clan by disease, poison, radiation, or other other physical reason, or being touched by some Eldritch Abomination.
• Mythic Ghouls - The original ghul of pre-islamic arabian mythology, they are separate beings not either genies nor undead, specialized in fear and sometimes magic. used by old arab to frighten kids. similar to Bogeymen.
• Vampiric Ghouls - Either created by vampires as a servant, or just a relative or offshoot of the standard vampire. They vary from immortal (if twisted) humans to mindless zombie minions to beings more powerful than vampires themselves.
• Zombie Ghouls - Flesh-eating undead, either your standard zombie by another name, or a specific zombie derivative. When the two coexist, the ghouls will generally be the more bestial and savage of the two, and more willing to eat rotten flesh. Perhaps the zombie will be subject to magical control, like the old voodoo zombies. Garden-variety re-animated corpses may count as these.

Applications

• Disease Immunity
• Enhanced Condition or Supernatural Condition
  • Contaminant Immunity
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Durability
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Senses
    • Enhanced/Supernatural Smell
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Speed
  • Enhanced/Supernatural Strength
• Natural Weaponry
  • Enhanced Bite

Variations

• Autonomous Body Parts
• Claw Retraction
• Decelerated Aging or Semi-Immortality
• Genie Magic
• Ghoulification
• Life-Force Absorption
• Magic
• Matter Ingestion
• Necromancy
• Undead Magic

Cursed Ghouls

• Curse Empowerment
• Cursed Physiology

Genie Ghouls

• Genie Physiology
  • Enhanced Assassination
  • Shapeshifting
    • Doppelgänger Morphing

Mythic Ghouls/Ghul

• Darkness Adaptation or Night Empowerment
• Fear Inducement
• Lunar Manipulation
• Soul Absorption
• Soul Mutilation

Undead Ghouls

• Undead Physiology

Types of Ghoul:

• Ghoul Lord Physiology
• Radioactive Ghoul Physiology
• Mutated Ghoul Physiology
• Qutrub Physiology
• Silah Physiology
• Superior Ghoul Physiology
• Transcendent Ghoul Physiology

Associations

• Bogeyman Physiology
• Demon Physiology
• Genie Physiology
• Ghoul Manipulation
• Monster Physiology
• Undead Physiology
  • Draugr Physiology
  • Revenant Physiology
  • Vampire Physiology
  • Zombie Physiology
• Wendigo Physiology
• Werewolf Physiology

Limitations

• May have a hard time returning to normal.
• May have problems controlling their instincts and appetites.

Known Users

See Also: Our Ghouls Are Creepier.

• Ayam Aghoul (Aladdin: The Animated Series)
• Ghouls (Darkest Dungeon)
• Lord Raptor (Darkstalkers)
• Ghouls (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time)
• Ghouls (The Dresden Files)
• Ghouls (Fables)
• Ghouls (Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser)
• Ghouls (Fallout series)
• Ghouls (Harry Potter franchise)
  • Weasley family ghoul (Harry Potter franchise)
  • Ghoul in the Muggle Studies Classroom (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban video game)
• Ghouls (Hellsing)
• Ghouls (H. P. Lovecraft)
• Doobie (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood)
• Jack the Ripper (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood)
• Ghouls/Qutrubs/Silahs (Mythology/Folklore)
• Ghouls (Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue)
• Tsukune Aono (Rosario + Vampire)
• Ghouls (RPGs)
• Ghost Roaster (Skylanders)
• Ghouls (Supernatural)
• Ghouls (Tokyo Ghoul)
• Lento Fainar (The Unwanted Immortal Adventurer)
• Ghouls (Warcraft)
  • Ghoul
  • Happy Ghoul

Gallery

The Dead Onez (Chaos! Comics) in the evil one's thrall are a unique breed of ghoul who retain the personas of their past selves. Able to think and plan in conjunction with their masters own designs.

Ghouls (Darkest Dungeon)

Ghouls (The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time) are semi-Undead monsters, said to be born from the【True Ancestor】 vampire, and differ depending on their gender. Zadiris being a female example...

...and Vigaro being a male example.

From the depths of the Earth... (Pathfinder)

Tsukune Aono (Rosario + Vampire) became a ghoul after repeated injections of vampire blood.

Ghouls (Tokyo Ghoul) are a humanoid species that can only feed on human flesh or that of other ghouls.