Ghouls

Once they were human, but millennia of living underground and feeding on the dead have changed Ghouls into a sub-species in their own right.

The Ghouls originally started as Human escapees and elderly humans who were no longer fit for slave labor, cast into the dark tunnels deep beneath the surface of Ebenar and left to rot. Many of those outcasts and runaways took to surviving however they could, and over the years they began to adapt to feeding off of the dead of Ebenar. Through that time, the pigments in their skin faded, they became more gaunt and lanky, developed rudimentary night vision, and lost all of their body hair.

Over time, Ghouls came together whenever they found one another, and small groups eventually turned into settlements. Some Ghouls have even been known to inhabit abandoned Dwarven cities, though they usually prefer to avoid any possibility of running into their former Dwarven captors.