Clarra Vex - The Ghast
She doesn’t just eat the dead. She calls to them. And they answer, crawling out of the soil like children returning to their mother’s voice.
Role in Its Society:
Clarra Vex is more than a scavenger of corpses—she’s a necrophagic matriarch, a ghast who cultivates graveyards like gardens. To the mindless dead, she’s a beacon. To necromancers, she’s an anomaly. And to clerics, she is blasphemy incarnate. Where she walks, the ground curdles, the dead rise, and the living gag.
Vex has a foul but twisted charisma—her stench is not just physical, but spiritually putrid, drawing ghouls, ghasts, and grave-cursed vermin into her wake. Her presence has been reported near battlefield remains, charnel houses, and remote family crypts where the dead begin to dig out rather than lie still.
Appearance Description:
Clarra’s body is stretched and bloated from years of feeding. Her skin is pale grey, waxy, and partially sloughed—hanging like rotted curtains from her frame. Her hands end in cracked claws, black with dried ichor, and her teeth are jagged and mismatched. She wears a shredded black mourning dress, adorned with teeth, fingerbones, and grave jewelry. Her eyes are milky white, but her stare is hypnotically hungry.
Backstory:
In life, Clarra Vex was the gravedaughter of the Dustfold Mausoleum, a family tasked with tending to the burial rites of a cursed valley. After years of exposure to unclean death and necrotic energies, her mind eroded. She began consuming the dead under the belief that it would protect them from rising.
When she was finally executed by the town priests, the curse she absorbed brought her back. But not alone. She returned as a ghast matron, and every corpse she had ever handled began to stir.
Now, she travels from grave to grave, calling her “children” back to her, vomiting decay into the soil and feeding their hunger with her own.
