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Skills: A morgoshe has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim
check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard.
He can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even
if distracted or endangered. He can use the run action
while swimming, provided he swims in a straight line.
*Morgoshe also have a +4 racial bonus to Hide, Listen and
Spot while in the water. They have a +4 bonus to Survival
while within 25 miles of their home.
Morgoshe Society
The morgoshe live in a theocratic society, governed by
priest-kings. The rule of law is suffocatingly strict, and
rebellions are not infrequent (though they are almost never
successful). Morgoshe live in villages and communities
of differing sizes, but rarely more than a few thousand
individuals. They prefer networks of caves at the bottom of
a deep body of water, but are more than capable of building
structures for themselves when no suitable cave network
exists.
The unifying aspect of all morgoshe clans and tribes is the
worship of Jelvreah Hundredarms, an octopus deity who,
according to morgoshian lore, lives at the bottom of the
deepest body of water in the Underdeep.
Morgoshe Characters
The favoured class of morgoshe is cleric, though there
are many rangers and sorcerers in their society as well.
A cleric of Jelvreah Hundredarms has access to two of
the following domains: Evil, Strength, War or Water. The
favoured weapon of the War domain is the longspear.
Pol’Tah (The Deep Drow)
Pol’Tah, 1 st Level Warrior
Medium Humanoid (Elf)
Hit Dice: 1d8 (4 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
Armour Class: 14 (+1 Dex, +2 leather armour,
+1 buckler), touch 11, flat-footed 14
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+2
Attack: Scimitar +3 melee (1d6+1/18-20) or
light pick +2 melee (1d4+1/x4) or spiked chain
+2 melee (2d4+1)
Full Attack: Scimitar +3 melee (1d6+1/18-20)
or light pick +2 melee (1d4+1/x4) or spiked
chain +2 melee (2d4+1)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks: Spell-like abilities
Special Qualities: Blindsight 30ft, immunity to
gaze attacks, Pol’Tah traits, tremorsense 120ft.
Saves: Fort +2, Ref +1, Will -1
Abilities: Str 13, Dex 13, Con 10, Int 12, Wis 9, Cha 10
Skills: Handle Animal +3, Hide +3, Listen +8, Move
Silently +3
Feats: Weapon Focus (scimitar)
Climate/Terrain: Underground
Organisation: Squad (2-4), patrol (5-8 plus two 2 nd level
sergeants and one leader of 3 rd to 6 th level), or band (20-
50 plus 10% noncombatants plus one 2 nd level sergeant
per five adults, 1d4 6 th level lieutenants and 1d4 9 th level
captains). There is a 10 percent chance a patrol will include
a wormrider mounted on a purple worm, and a 50 percent
chance a band will have 1d3 wormriders escorting it.
Challenge Rating: 1
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually neutral evil
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: +2
This humanoid appears to be like any other drow, until one
takes a closer look at its eyes. The bright red seen in the
eyes of other drow is gone; instead, the pupil is a blotch
of pink. The deep drow are almost completely blind, but,
as their fighting abilities make clear, they have more than
compensated for the loss of their sight.
Millennia spent in the misty tunnels of Drez Khelim
have had a profound influence on the Pol’Tah. They are
all but completely blind now, their sight atrophied by its
uselessness here. Their eyes appear as milky-white orbs,
with a faded blotch of pink where the pupil would be.
Only the brightest of lights can still register on their failed
vision, a sensation they find uncomfortable but fascinating.
Vermthizzl, the aspect of Kez’Skul they still worship, is
known as the Light in the Deep for that very reason.
The Pol’Tah have more than compensated for their
blindness, however. Their hearing is uncommonly sharp,
even for elves. More importantly, they have developed
tremorsense and blindsight as innate abilities. The Pol’Tah