Hriu

A superstitious and religious concept among the Lithkind. Lithkind believe that parents' spirits are divided into their children (whose birth requires the death of the parents), and thus are continuously reborn, ideally in multiple new bodies. Any Lithkind slain by anything other than mating or childbirth is thought to return as an angry ghost to haunt the living members of his Eld (clan community). These ghosts are known as Hriu, and are said to appear at noon over their sleeping victims, and drink their blood, causing illness or nightmares. To stop this happening, a body must be fed to the crimson snakebats with full funeral rites within three days of death.

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• Dave Nilsen, David L. Pulver, Andy Slack, David Thomas. Alien Races 3 (Steve Jackson Games, 2000), 132-142.