Meta:Caligni

Retcons

In Pathfinder First Edition, "caligni" referred to a rare variant of their kind. Per Nidal, Land of Shadows 8, these calignis more closely resembled the original people of Calignos and considered themselves separate and distinct from common calignis, which were referred to as "dark folk".

The distinction between "caligni" and "dark folk" no longer exists in Pathfinder Lost Omens sources, and Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary 50 also no longer makes this distinction, instead referring to the term "dark folk" as a disliked surface-dweller moniker for their people at large. Bestiary also describes caligni variants as forms influenced by cultural traditions and influences rather than as the result of breeding.

This wiki article also previously implied that dark folk "do not breed true", but this assertion did not appear in Nidal, Land of Shadows 8, which states that "caligni are born to dark folk, and their own children, in turn, are typically darkfolk".

For the version of this article prior to these changes, see revision 230719. -Oznogon (talk) 23:04, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Additional information was also previously removed from this article because it did not cite a canon source. See Talk:Caligni. -Oznogon (talk) 23:07, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Unincorporated sources

• Occult Bestiary p. 18 --Fleanetha (talk) 11:58, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
• Cult of the Cave Worm 2E assassin, shadowfade 85 -Oznogon (talk) 01:20, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Other 1E -> 2E tasks

Please add other tasks to this list that need performing to complete the update of caligni to 2E: --Fleanetha (talk) 20:28, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

• Category:Images of dark folk and its subcategories need assessing and updating to 2E -Fleanetha (talk) 19:07, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
  • change the imagesof parameters accordingly on related pages
• Dark folk navbox update to {{Caligni navbox}} --Fleanetha (talk) 16:10, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Move the navbox template to the new name -Oznogon (talk) 01:42, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Update links to the template in articles
  • Remove the template redirects
  • update /doc
• Rationalise the currently duplicated dark folk and caligni category trees -Fleanetha (talk) 17:23, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
• Deal with RfD / merging of pages of caligni variants -Fleanetha (talk) 23:12, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
  • use 2E name as master with redirect from 1E name
  • update pages with 2E Bestiary material and highlight 1E-Bestiary-only material
• Hunt down some canon sources from 1E and update text to minimise non-canon sources (see above for some good sources)
• B2 addition of caligni slayers could do with some more from B2 but that's handled in normal meta page fashion now --Fleanetha (talk) 23:12, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
• any other 2e sources used or introduced caligni?
  • Quick list of total mentions needing followup:
  • Bestiary; 44 mentions
    • Caligni creeper, dancer, stalker, treasures, origins
  • Bestiary 2, 19 mentions
    • Caligni slayer
  • Gamemastery Guide, 1 mention
    • Inhabiting Shadow Plane
  • Character Guide, 2 mentions
    • origins, caste system
  • World Guide, 3 mentions
    • inhabiting Nar-Voth, Nidal
  • Devil at the Dreaming Palace, 11 mentions
    • reaper's lancet drug, Whisker Brothers affiliation, combat encounter
• rationalise 2 ibs on main caligni page --Fleanetha (talk) 20:35, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
• can we legitimately bring back any of the deleted content above?
• change dark folk -> caligni across the wiki within the text
• handle Discussion page comments for the individual caligni types -Fleanetha (talk) 22:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)