Belkzen Creeper

Belkzen Creepers are a culture of ratfolk who live amongst the most hostile reaches of the Hold of Belkzen.

Appearance

Belkzen Creepers are more muscular than most other ysoki from poling their sled-skiffs through the ever-shifting quicksands of the Dirt Sea. Most have tawny-coloured fur and are renowned for wearing skull masks designed to inspire fear in their belligerent orc neighbours.

Culture and society

Belkzen Creepers are generally isolationists who live in a realm surrounded by dangers. They live in large warrens that wind beneath the islands of rocky land which protrude from the Dirt Sea. They are excellent at fighting the unique undead that are active only in and around the Dirt Sea.

Belkzen Creepers also tend to be very religious, and their clerics aid in the endless fight against the region's undead creatures. The central figure of their mythology is a unique divine entity known as the Hollow Rat who excavates near-endless tunnels beneath the surface of Golarion to either (depending on who is telling the tale) hinder or aid the escape of the caged deity Rovagug. They also worship a unique local incarnation of Lao Shu Po, which they call "Lor Shan"; the nature god Gozreh; and the orc fertility goddess Dretha.