The Way of the Flesh

Dispersed cohort of mystics who believe the way to truth, understanding, and immortality is through the consumption of human flesh and organ. Often mistaken (or coinciding!) for rumoured cults of true ghuls that lurk beneath the oldest cities the the Rhiat.

The Becoming

There are two doors to the Way of the Flesh: being born again and communion. Those that are born again are termed the anpiscis. The rebirth is the process of death. When one dies from ghuls feeding, it is likely they will be born again. It is a painful and traumatic process. It is never desired by the victim, and rarely intended by the Ghul. The process takes seven days after the victims death, the victim becomes cognizent, but can not act, move, or speak. Thus the new anpiscis will often awaken in a morgue, during funerary preparation, or during the funeral. The most traumatic can be when the awakening comes after the burial. Many anpisci lose their sanity from the awakening and claw or chew themselves to oblivion, even before their second life begins.

The path of communion is less traumatic, but more depraved. It is the creation of true ghouls, or their proper term ghul. It results from a steady, continuous diet on solely human flesh and blood. Many of the grotesque and repellant characterisitics of the ghul occur from frequent flesh consumption, as in the case of cannibals and deranged serial killers.

Why flesh and blood? It is traditional, and written in the holy books, that flesh and blood are essential to eternal life. But the flesh must be infused with prana or the of the empyreal realm, which is what sustains the body for eternity. For this same, reason, spiritual people and mystics are preferred food sources.

The hermetic ideas of correspondence apply to the Ghul. Effects are obtained through consumptia the act of eating particular body parts. The eyes bring memories, the brain knowledge, the muscles and sinews strength and resistence, the genetalia passion and virility.