The Plaguebearers are a tribe that resides in the Demon Wastes.[1][2][3] They are one of the foulest of the Carrion Tribes.[3]
Believes[]
They worship a fiend lord that controls pestilence and filth. This fiend is said to be imprisoned, but the Plaguebearers try to use its power against their foes.[1][2][3][note 1]
Description[]
Members of the tribe carry various diseases and are often covered in nasty welts and weeping open sores as a result.[1]
Leadership[]
Their leader is a half-fiend human barbarian named Fulgrun Bloodboil. He is described to be hideous and foul-smelling with rot and decay.[1]
Abilities[]
In spite of, of perhaps because, of their many infections, the Plaguebearers are surprising resistant to the ill-effects of disease and poison.[1] In fact, they can be entirely immune. They also smell so foul that attackers who get too close are hampered.[3]
Tactics[]
In combat, the Plaguebearers are fierce berserkers who rush swiftly into the fray and fight to the death.[1] They wear hide armor and wield swords crafted from bone.[3] They rub their weapons with dung in order to spread diseases like filth fever or filth plague to those they strike, hoping that, even if victorious, their enemies will die eventually of sickness.[1][3] The ordure on their weapons can splash others and blind and infect them. The Plaguebearers fight simply to infect as many as possible.[3]
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Notes[]
- ↑ This is an unnamed "force" in Eberron Campaign Setting, then a "fiend-lord" in Player's Guide to Eberron. It is implied from context to be an Overlord, but this is not explicitly stated. An adventure idea in the Eberron Campaign Setting page 163 ties it to a plan by the Lords of Dust to create a rakshasa rajah, that is, an Overlord.Player's Guide to Eberron suggests a creature similar to Demogorgon or Juiblex from core D&D.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Keith Baker, Bill Slavicsek, & James Wyatt (2004). Eberron Campaign Setting. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 160, 163. ISBN 0-7869-3274-0.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 James Wyatt, Keith Baker, Luke Johnson, Steven Brown (2006). Player's Guide to Eberron. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 34, 35. ISBN 0-7869-3912-5.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 James Wyatt and Keith Baker (2009). Eberron Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 120, 121. ISBN 0-7869-5099-4.