The Drowned
Amphibian creatures exiled from their poisoned, dried-out lake. They have taken refuge in Devil's Tomb deep in Graven-Tosk, where they sleep in fleshy cocoons in a flooded chamber lit by waterfall-drowned light. Ten are present at any time; four more are usually out raiding.
They worship the Plant of Life and its angelic children. Their altar — the Drowned Altar — is a circular granite slab on which a dead Drowned is laid, covered in blue leaves and vines. Thrice daily they mourn him.
Their hoard is a mud-covered jumble of shiny objects: coins, cutlery, chains, nails, horseshoes. The Icon of St Largoth's stolen Eyes are kept here.
Stat block (single Drowned): HP 6, Morale 8, Scales −d2, Spear d6. Immune to the spores' effects. Upon death, freezes the water nearby, dealing d4 damage.
The traitor Belpheduk killed a fellow Drowned and was punished by imprisonment in the Traitor's Den, a muddy cramped cave with her severed arm nailed to the wall.
Devil's Tomb, Graven-Tosk, Plant of Life, Drowned Altar, Belpheduk, Icon of St Largoth
The poisoned lake they fled from is unnamed and unlocated — possibly any number of the world's many failing waters. Their language, leadership, religion before the Plant of Life, and the source of their freezing-on-death are unwritten.