Corpse Eaters, Torturers, Monsters

CW - engraving depicting human cannibalism below. 

In the Barony there are monsters but there are also Monsters.

Monsters have the stats of commoners, because a lot of them are commoners. Some of them have stats as bandits, some of them as men-at-arms, because some of them have experience or training in killing people. 

Monsters are people. Clever, ruthless, frighteningly cruel, and lethally dangerous people.

Corpse Eaters, Ghouls, Cannibal Cults

They congregate around the sites of battle, or graveyards (mass graves in particular), or they run butchers shops, or keep large cellars. They are feared by wounded soldiers more than anything. Many of them like their meat fresh, many aren't fussed. 

Some think that the consumption of humans has spiritual or magical significance, some get addicted to taboos, some like the taste, some have simply lived this way their whole lives. 

Sometimes, when things get bad, they are the whole city, the whole country.

There are many stories - about how their touch can bring necrosis or paralysis, about how they aren't truly alive any more, about their hypnotic eyes and corpse-like breath. The truth, of course, is sadder and stranger.

Theodor de Bry

Torturers, Morlocks, Deros, Cave Dwellers 

They watch you going about your life and first they torture you by driving you mad. They talk to you at night, they move things around, they break your locks, they smash your windows and kill your pets. They take the people you love. Then they take you, and they torture you in other ways. 

They keep cages beneath the earth, and they torture people to death in the blackness. No one knows why they do it. 

If tortured themselves they will say that yes, of course, they are in congress with demons, yes, they are in league with Evil Powers, yes, yes, it's true, they are not human, they are not human. But only under torture, and never convincingly. 

The Descent. Yes I keep using it for images. It's one of the best ever.