Infobox
| STR | INT | SPI |
| AGI | PER | CHA |
| END | WIS | WILL |
Derived Stats
| PD | MD | SD |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Body | Mind | Soul |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
Initiative: 0
Current
Body:
Mind:
Soul:
Niniyan / Stone Man
Description
Niniyan is a spirit who is constantly and permanently driven by its hunger. It most often appears as an old man with a cane but outside of that, mimics the attire of those it sees. Its skin, hair, clothing, hair, and eyes all appear to be made of white, cracked stone and feel as such, despite its mobility.
Skills
- Melee Weapons Dice Pool: 6
- Intimidate Dice Pool: 7
Abilities, Gifts & Burdens
Armored Skin
Adds +3 to Physical Defense.
Cane Attack
Niniyan’s stone cane can be used for two Melee Attacks per Round, as a Primary Action (+2, Critical: Stat Damage).
Teleport
Twice per day as a Secondary Action, Niniyan can teleport up to 10 miles away to a place it has seen before.
Project Visions
As a Secondary Action, Niniyan may project visions or dreams into someone’s mind from up to 10 miles away. Target must make a Will Reaction Roll, SN 9. Success indicates no effect. Failure indicates the Character is in Panic. If done while the target is asleep, the recipient loses 1 point of Will.
Healing
Every point of damage Niniyan inflicts on a person (besides women) regenerates 1 point of Physical Damage instantly, up to its maximum Body.
Blood Weakness
The blood of a woman can damage Niniyan. Each time it attacks a woman, any successful attacks that are Critical Damage cause blood splash that injures the Niniyan an equal number of points. If a Character intentionally injures themselves, they can splatter their own blood on Niniyan as either a Melee or Ranged Attack, but only in Short Range. Each point of Damage done to a Character this way does a point of Damage to Niniyan. Niniyan cannot heal this Damage through its Healing ability. Instead it heals this Damage at a rate of 1 point per day.
Notes
It constantly walks with a cane in one hand. The cane is actually a part of the spirit and cannot be dropped.
Niniyan will grin at its intended victims but will never speak. It either doesn’t hear or doesn’t understand languages. Or perhaps doesn’t care.
The spirit is hunger personified and no amount of feeding can satiate it. Some see this being as tragic, as it is consumed beyond its ability to control by its constant need. While it can be smart and even devious at times, it is always in service of its primary goal.
No one is entirely sure if Niniyan is a singular being or there are multiples. No one has ever seen or heard of there being more than one at a time.
While Niniyan can attack all humans, it has a vulnerability to the blood of women and will seek to avoid them. It cannot feed on their blood (see Healing below) and Niniyan will simply attempt to kill them if forced to defend itself from such a person.
For Niniyan, the act of violently rending flesh is the way it feeds, whether with its hand, its cane, or its mouth. It does not actually need to orally consume flesh to survive.
While its physical form can be destroyed, most believe that this simply transfers the spirit back to The Black or another spirit plane and that Niniyan could return at some point. However, once in the Fifth World - this plane- many believe the spirit is stranded here and cannot willingly leave this world on its own.
Typically, Niniyan focuses on a single small group of people, a farm or village for example, and uses its abilities to terrorize and drive away the women, while emboldening everyone else to draw them out so that it can feed on them. It’s theoretically possible to reason or bargain with Niniyan if it’s offered something that can help sate its hunger.
As Niniyan is damaged, pieces of stone will begin to chip and fall off of him. When it is reduced to zero Body, it will crumble into pieces, then dust.