Void Boys (or Who the heck are they?)

[catdragon]

In the module The Moonscar there is this snippet:

The Moonscar wrote:

Void Boys' Hideout

A band of river brigands called the Void Boys has built up a sizeable [sic] hideout in a network of hollow trees and caverns carved out amid their roots. Originally the band was little more than an upstart group of hoodlums who were too weak to make it on the streets of rugged Skelt, and fled the city for better pickings on the banks of the Shining River. But in the desolation of the Growling Skald, the gang discovered a strange carving of a woman screaming to the heavens, her arms bound to her sides by chains and her eye sockets empty. After the brigands carried the statue back to their hideout, it began to speak to them, and since then the renamed Void Boys have been an increasing threat to river traffic in the region. Some say they turn the dead of their victims against any survivors and that they have an army of undead waiting in the woods for a pending assault on Skelt itself.

Now, ignoring the bit about undead (because I don't want to go shooting of the track of the adventure too much, what would you think the "Void Boys" are?

I was thinking things like:

• Void elementalist (Dragon Empires Primer)
  
• Void bombs (Drow, alchemist 6)
  
• void Kineticist
  
• hungry ghost monk
  
• Oni, Void Yai (bestiary 3)
  

But nothing it actually exciting me. Any suggestions from out in the, er, void?

[Mavrickindigo]

perhaps each of them have a void theme to them, so all of the above is correct?

[AlliedMastercomputer]

A bunch of Fallout-style raiders who found a weird statue?

[Mark Moreland]

The original intent of the Void Boys was that they be primarily rogues, fighters, and rangers. They're first and foremost brigands, and only adopted the name "Void Boys" after they found the weird statue. If the rumors of their use of undead are true, they'd need a cleric or necromancer of a high enough level to create and control all these undead. But any similarities between the void element and the group's name is coincidental, though you are certainly free to use all the void-related stuff that has come out since Moonscar was released if it feels right for your campaign.

[Knoq Nixoy]

they seem orky, perhaps they are orc-mi-go hybrids