Dark Folk

[Aureus]

Has anybody thought about the place / role / origin of the dark folk on golarion? I would love to let them appear in my CotCT campagne, so under Korvosa.

My first thought was to link them to Cheliax. Perhaps are the dark stalkers descendend from a human noble family and the dark creepers were their very good treated halfling servants, before they were driven into the Darklands by the devil worshippers after Aroden's death.

[Lilith]

Read here on the PathfinderWiki. Should answer some queries for ya. :)

[Aureus]

Yeah! Thanks Lilith, great link! My take couldn't provide the dark folk with enough time to degenerate anyways. And since Azlanti ruins can be found in Varisia as well, everything fits quite well.

[Thanael]

Not Golarion per se but you might find Frog God Games Cyclopean Deeps 3+4 of interest if you're into Dark Folk.

[F. Wesley Schneider]

Aureus wrote:

Has anybody thought about the place / role / origin of the dark folk on golarion?

Yes! They're my pet race for the year. Stay tuned for more, but I promised you'll be better served on dark folk details in the coming months then you were before. ;)

[Kajehase]

Were we served anything Dark Folk related previously? (Apart from the Bestiary entries, obviously.)

[chavamana]

Council of Thieves spoiler:

There were a number of them in the forces of evil in CoT. Artifact of shadow-y doom in the hands of the vampires and links to Nidal. Fun stuff.

[Mikaze]

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Aureus wrote:

Has anybody thought about the place / role / origin of the dark folk on golarion?

Yes! They're my pet race for the year. Stay tuned for more, but I promised you'll be better served on dark folk details in the coming months then you were before. ;)

!

YES.

I've had a Dark Stalker expy of the merchant from Resident Evil 4 serving as the "face" NPC for Kaer Maga for our local groups for a while. Eager to see where these guys are coming from. AND why they are so explodey. :)

[Lazaro]

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Aureus wrote:

Has anybody thought about the place / role / origin of the dark folk on golarion?

Yes! They're my pet race for the year. Stay tuned for more, but I promised you'll be better served on dark folk details in the coming months then you were before. ;)

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! YAY, dark folk!

[Adam Daigle]

I [heart] dark folk.

[Set]

Awesome, I'd already written up Dark Folk variations for 'Dark Magi' (arcane casters) and 'Dark Acolytes' (divine casters), but it will be neat to see official stuff.

[Shaun Hocking]

I [explode] Dark Folk.

[Amanda Hamon]

Shaun Hocking wrote:

I [explode] Dark Folk.

Aww, now there's dark folk-stuff everywhere!

Seriously, though, more dark folk details = yes, please.

[Demiurge 1138]

I'm a huge fan of the dark folk--I tend to run them as shiftless merchant folk, rather than being truly sinister--I was strongly inspired by the Goblin Market in Courtney Crumrin years ago and that conception has stayed with me for years.

[The Shifty Mongoose]

Yes. I put a bunch of them in a home-brew adventure I attempted a few years ago, though I gave them all cockney accents, with something more subtle for their Dark Stalker boss.

...Unfortunately, since the last session of it was while everyone was still just level 3 and everyone knew it, I figured the best way to end it was with everyone getting taken out in the boss’ death explosion, their goal achieved.

[Doggan]

I love the Dark Folk. I often put them in direct contention with the Drow, and use them as a (slightly) more welcome merchant/trading partner with select surface villages and towns.

[Set]

The Dark Folk being (mostly) non-evil makes them far more useful, narratively, than the Drow, in my experience. They can make unreliable allies-of-convenience, for instance, without being *guaranteed* to be treacherous. It's less of a stretch to use them in a much wider variety of roles than just 'dudes we stab for GPs and XPs.'

[Lochmonster]

It's not "Dark Folk"!

It's Differently Light Able Persons.

RAAAAAAAAAACISTS!

[Wiki Clockwork]

*WHIRRR CLICK CLICK*

Pardon me gentle-beings. Please note that the link that Lilith posted several years ago has become out of date in the mean time. The current PathfinderWiki has a much more up-to-date article on Dark folk.

*CLICK CLICK WHIRRrrrr CLUNK*

[Thanael]

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Aureus wrote:

Has anybody thought about the place / role / origin of the dark folk on golarion?

Yes! They're my pet race for the year. Stay tuned for more, but I promised you'll be better served on dark folk details in the coming months then you were before. ;)

Wes, what books should we look to?

[F. Wesley Schneider]

Thanael wrote:

F. Wesley Schneider wrote:

Aureus wrote:

Has anybody thought about the place / role / origin of the dark folk on golarion?

Yes! They're my pet race for the year. Stay tuned for more, but I promised you'll be better served on dark folk details in the coming months then you were before. ;)

Wes, what books should we look to?

To start, Bestiary 4. But there's something else coming down the road that I expect will have some more Golarion-centric details. For now: patience. ;)

[Lazaro]

>Casts Raise Thread<

So any news on when/if we'll be seeing details on the dark folk?

[Mikaze]

Lazaro wrote:

>Casts Raise Thread<

So any news on when/if we'll be seeing details on the dark folk?

Good news!

AP SPOILERS:

They have a respectable presence in Mummy's Mask,, both in the Wati article in Half-Dead City and in the adventure itself in Empty Graves. There's different dark folk set up as enemies and potentially friendly NPCs, as well as an unusual take on dark folk and how they can fit into Osirion that makes a ton of sense.

Also....maybe a possible dark stalker love interest?

seems like it could be an explosive relationship

[Lazaro]

Mikaze wrote:

Lazaro wrote:

>Casts Raise Thread<

So any news on when/if we'll be seeing details on the dark folk?

Good news!

** spoiler omitted **

O_O YAY!

I need my pdf copy pronto now.

[nighttree]

Mikaze wrote:

Lazaro wrote:

>Casts Raise Thread<

So any news on when/if we'll be seeing details on the dark folk?

Good news!

** spoiler omitted **

DAMN....I have Half Dead City...but had not read through it yet....I know what I'll be reading tonight :)

[Mikaze]

^^^^

Spoiler:

If you have Half Dead City on you, look for Unwrapped Harmony and her crew in the Wati article. I believe they're in the Necropolis section. :)

[Lazaro]

I continue to hunger for new dark folk material. Oh! Mighty Paizo tell me there more dark folk goodness coming :)

[Cole Deschain]

They really are lovely...