Hollowed Ranger 4 (12)

High Noon at Midnight

Cloaked in a tattered duster and riding nothing but a memory, the necrovore known as a hollowed ranger is a traveling portal to elsewhere—perhaps connecting to a nightmare, the far future after everyone has died, or some region of Hell where corpses shamble beneath an eternal eclipse.

Hollowed rangers ride forth where good people were gunned down in cold blood and then dumped in shallow, unmarked graves. The injustice rips a hole in the world, which the murdered spirit possesses and becomes. Unfortunately, a hollowed ranger's desire for vengeance doesn't restrict them from visiting horror on most everything they encounter.

Motive: Vengeance (first against their killer, then their killer's family and friends, then their killer's species, and so on)

Environment: Almost anywhere

Health: 18

Damage Inflicted: Moderate wound (4 points)

Movement: Short

Modifications: Speed defense as level 6 due to partially non existent body

Combat: A hollowed ranger's long range entropic bullet—fired from a rifle shaped hole in reality—deals 4 points of Intellect damage (ignores Armor) as a bit of the target's reality is blasted away.

A hollowed ranger also has the following traits.

• Necrovore Door. As their action, the ranger shudders as a wraith lord emerges from their body, acting as the ranger wishes for one minute. After one minute, the wraith is drawn back into the ranger, or it just fades. (Other necrovores could instead be called from the deathly realms a hollowed ranger is connected to, but anything level 3 or higher takes two actions to disgorge.)
• Fall Into Oblivion. On a failed Might defense roll, a living creature starting their turn in immediate range of a hollowed ranger is sucked through the hollowed ranger's form into the deathly realm beyond. This realm is anathema to life—the affected target immediately takes 4 points of Intellect damage (ignores Armor) from the necrotic energy draining their soul. Affected targets are drained of life each additional round they spend in the deathly realm, but can attempt a Might-based task to pull themselves back to their reality. The hollowed ranger regains 1 point of health each time an affected target's soul is so drained.
• Door Shift. A hollowed ranger can instantly transport themself miles away as its action, if they have previously been to or seen the other location.

Interaction: Speaking with a voice like wind on gravestones, a hollowed ranger may tell of the primary target of their vengeance, deliver a message from a more powerful necrovore, or simply promise to eat the soul of whoever tries negotiating with them.

Use: Characters need to travel a huge distance and are told the quickest way is to use the door shift offered by a hollowed ranger, though doing so will require appeasing the ranger in some way.

GM Intrusion: The character drawn through the hollowed ranger's form to a deathly realm is attacked by a ghost lurking there.