La Llorona
La Llorona are the ghosts of women who have abandoned their children in order to be with a man. Once such a woman dies she will be barred entry into the afterlife until she has been re-united with and made amends to her children. Unfortunately, if the woman's children have died before her she is likely cursed to walk the World Between in search of children who no longer exist. A La Llorona will seize upon any child she finds and attempt to carry them off; a La Llorona will mistake any child she encounters for one of her own.
Movement: 120' (40')
Armor Class: 16
Hit Dice: 3
No. of Attacks: 1 (Attack Bonus +3)
Damage: 1d6 (mournful wail)
Morale: 12
Special Abilities: Ectoplasmic Undead – a La Llorona takes half damage from all physical attacks and is immune to paralysis, poison, sleep, etc. Mournful Wail – in combat a La Llorona attacks by unleashing a terrible, heart-rending shriek in the face of a foe; any foe struck by the force of the wail must make a successful Saving Throw vs. Spells or become demoralized with grief. Such a character takes a -2 penalty to all rolls until they have had a chance to mourn on their own.
(art by Alison Scarpulla)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJYAsuVQry0
ReplyDeleteYou will be unsurprised to learn that I am a big Beirut fan.
DeleteThat's a pretty cool -- and, more importantly, interestingly playable -- take on the Latin American folk legend.
ReplyDeleteFor a really twisted take on it, imagine a La Llorona based on this real woman my wife knew online:
She left not only her children, but also her husband, but not for another man, but for a woman, but not for a lesbian relationship, but for a relationship in which both of them pretended to be gay men.
Truly, there are more things on earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy!
DeleteMy version.
ReplyDeletehttp://betweengoodandawful.blogspot.com/2012/06/la-llorona-weeping-women.html
That's a much more tragic version. And, in any place with the sort of child mortality rate typical without modern medicine, it would be very common, too.
DeleteNice! You can never have enough versions of an undead monster, I say.
DeleteWHAT are those creepy images from? Bleak...
ReplyDeleteIt's Alison Scarpulla's photography; check out her portfolio site, she's amazing.
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