Classification: Lethargopteryx
Common Name: Husk
Type: Ag’nagaruth Possessed — Base Form
Husks are among the most common and recognisable forms of Ag’nagaruth possession.
They are also among the most deceptive.
At first glance, a Husk appears to be little more than a corpse forced back into motion — slow, ruined and barely functional. That assumption has killed countless people.
The truth is worse.
A Husk is not simply a dead body reanimated by external control. It is the result of a soul being claimed at the threshold between life and death. In those final moments, when pain overwhelms reason and consciousness begins to fail, the Ag’nagaruth whisper their offer.
Some accept.
Those who do rise again changed forever.
What remains is stripped of personality, identity and higher thought.
Its movements are slow and uneven, characterised by a persistent limp or dragging gait. Unlike Striders, which retain speed and predatory coordination, Husks advance with relentless persistence rather than agility.
Their bodies are pallid and corpse-like, often split by decomposition, with necrotic tissue gathered around the eyes and face. Fingers stretch into unnaturally long, barbed talons capable of tearing through flesh and armour.
But the most disturbing feature is the tongue.
Elongated and permanently exposed, it moves constantly, tasting the air, walls, floors and anything else within reach. It serves as both a tactile and chemosensory organ, allowing the Husk to detect prey even when vision is limited.
And then there are the eyes.
In darkness, a lone Husk can appear as little more than two pale lights drifting through the black.
A horde looks like a constellation moving towards you.
Individually, Husks can be contained.
In numbers, they become catastrophic.
They are especially dangerous inside ships, tunnels, corridors and dense urban structures, where their lack of speed becomes irrelevant. They do not tire. They do not retreat. They do not experience fear.
Once one Husk locates prey, others converge instinctively, forming dense masses of clawing, feeding bodies.
Humanity once believed death meant the end of the battle.
The Ag’nagaruth changed that.
Because when a Husk rises, the person inside is already gone.
What remains is hunger.