GOSHUN The denizens of Chiaroscuro’s undercity fear the goshun, creatures that live in the deepest tunnels beneath the city. The goshun are large, rat-like creatures, three to four feet tall when standing upright, with tiny, human-like hands and chitinous shells on their torsos. They can see perfectly in the dark. Only they and a few high-ranking gods could know their origin. Perhaps a buried and Wyld-poisoned demesne spawned them. Perhaps they come from the deep caverns where the Primordials banished their rejected experiments. Mortals certainly do not know, for few mortals survive encounters with the goshun. The goshun are intelligent and are remarkable builders and artisans. Rank in their society depends on skill. All goshun have at least three dots in at least one Craft. The greatest artisans of their kind rule from the Alotha Seats, seven thrones of jade hidden in the deepest chambers of their territory. Goshun live in tunnels and chambers hewn from the living rock and scribed with complex abstract designs. Teams of goshun can sculpt a precise likeness of whatever they want in minutes. Goshun subsist mainly on fungi and insects raised in subterranean farms. They avoid contact with other creatures. Their militia watches for anyone who comes too near their home—and while most of their tunnels are too small for humans to traverse, they have taken over some long-abandoned sections of the undercity that were shaped by other hands. When lost or unwary humans stray into their territory, the goshun shoot them down with dozens of tiny arrows, then mobs of goshun swarm out to dissect the intruder with small, razor-sharp blades.
