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{{race
|name=Ghoul
|metarace=[[Undead]]
|locked=[[Unlockables#Races|Yes]]
|life_per_level=14
|exp_penalty=+20%
|strength=+3
|dexterity=+1
|constitution=+5
|willpower=-2
|cunning=-2
}}

==Description==
Ghouls are dumb, but resilient, rotting undead creatures, making good fighters. They have access to special ghoul talents and a wide range of undead abilities:
* Great poison resistance
* Bleeding immunity
* Stun resistance
* Fear immunity
* Special ghoul talents: ghoulish leap, gnaw and retch
The rotting bodies of ghouls also force them to act a bit more slowly than most creatures. (20% global [[speed]] reduction).

Note: Undead are unnatural creatures and may not use [[inscriptions#Infusions|infusions]] or be any [[Wilder (Metaclass)|Wilder]] classes. They do not gain the Harmony skill tree from eating the sandworm queen's heart either.

==Starting Equipment==
*Brass Lantern
*[[inscriptions|Rune: Shielding]]
*Rune: Phase Door

==Starting Location==
[[Blighted Ruins]]

==Racial Talents==
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==Strategy==
Somewhat surprisingly, ghouls do need to breathe.

Other stats:
*Poison Immunity 80%
*Cut Immunity 100%
*Stun Immunity 50%
*Fear Immunity 100%
*Global Speed -20%

The global speed penalty is severely crippling for most classes, though their very high life adds a lot of survivability. Ironically, they make for great [[Sun Paladin]]s because the class profits greatly from the huge life bonus.

==Lore==
Every once in a while, people come to me and say "Are all necromancers truly evil?" "Surely necromancy could be used for good!" "Isn't it wrong to discriminate against others simply because of the magicks they practice?" To these people, the first thing I usually say - shortly after giving them a black eye - is to take a look at a ghoul. Take a good, long look. Take in the diseased, putrescent flesh. Take in the oozing, exposed organs. Take in its features, slowly rotting to mulch. It used to be a person. It used to have a family, people who loved it. Now it's a walking corpse, its only desire being death and the mad, all-encompassing consumption of living flesh. Are all necromancers truly evil? A thousand times, yes.

Even this most basic of undead minions can strike terror into the unprepared. The multitude of diseases that a normal ghoul carries are contagious in a manner many adventurers do not truly appreciate until they see the sores and necrosis visibly spreading up their arm from where a ghoul bit them. Such maladies must be dealt with promptly: if bitten by a ghoul, immediately plunge the afflicted area in scalding hot water, then wrap it quickly in clean cloth lined with mugwort and quartz powder. The wound must remain dressed for three weeks, with new dressings applied every four days, and make sure to burn the old ones! Failing the above, a wild infusion also works splendidly.

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