Xol

Ceremonial Slayer Bone Stalker

Where the fraternal tribes of masked hunters jostle, peacock, and strut, each seeking the attention and affections of high-ranking females, the Bone Stalkers sit in meditative silence, each individual possessed by visions of future hunts. Their births prophesized by Xol in anticipation of the Great Hunt, these individuals belong to the fearsome Aru strain of “Icta’Nuat,” or “those that take the bone.” Bone Stalkers possess the ability to control their metabolism, sex drive, and sensory input, allowing them to stand stone-still for days. In this meditative state, the Covenant of Bone is invoked, and light itself is fooled by the God Tree, hiding the stalkers from view. Only when their victims draw close to the Bone Stalkers break their vigil, moving with unnerving speed and striking with lethal precision.

Living Wraith White Wood Reaper

With Xol’s birth came a strange advent, the next sign in a string of prophecies put forth by Mala: the birth of the first albino Aru. Regarded by their kin with fear and reverence, the “Icta’Nuat” represent the Aru’s promised afterlife, the White Wood: a realm where the balance between the living and the dead is so complete that no divide exists at all. Chief among this new strain of exalted hunters are the Icta’Nuat’Tzlaka, or “Bone-Takers from the White Wood.”

Born sterile, sexless, and mature, the White Wood Reapers embody Laculathon’s vision for the Covenant of Bone: an ultimate hunter unburdened by mortal needs. Reapers possess a unique blend of hunting instincts and senses sourced from over a dozen species, and are gifted weapons and armor made from Laculathon’s internal organs. Those that are cut by these weapons have their consciousness temporarily joined to the Reaper that wounded them, granting the hunter an intimate knowledge of the quarry’s anatomy, emotional state, and physical location.