Animate Nightmare (Famine)
CREATURE 17Whereas animate dreams form from the fears of specific individuals, animate nightmares are spawned by the terrors that beset civilizations. An animate nightmare's appearance depends on the type of fear that created it, but, like fears, result in similar forms.
Emigrants From Dreams
Animate nightmares often haunt the ruins of the civilization that birthed them. Others are drawn to Jandelay, the enigmatic demiplane where the fragments of dead worlds are preserved for all eternity, or to Abaddon, where apocalyptic nihilism is the rule. These latter nightmares might stay close to their "parent" civilizations, while others wander the broken avenues of multiple worlds, feeding off the traces of fear that linger in those places.
An animate nightmare embodies one societal fear, chosen from the following options. Depending on the choice, the animate nightmare gains one additional 8th-rank occult innate spell, as listed below.
Disaster The animate nightmare appears as a person or creature who's suffered devastating wounds from a calamity—horrific burns, crushed and broken limbs, impalements from wind-tossed debris, and the like. It gains Phantasmal Calamity at 8th rank.
Disorder The animate nightmare looks like a distorted parody of a commonplace person with unnaturally long limbs, a twisted visage, and a scratching shrill voice. It gains Confusion at 8th rank.
Famine The animate nightmare appears as a humanoid carrion bird or other bestial scavenger (such as a jackal or a fly) on the brink of death from starvation. It gains Vampiric Exsanguination at 8th rank.
Plague The animate nightmare is shaped like a tangle of diseased bodies animated into hideous life that might have just crawled out of a mass grave. It gains Spiritual Epidemic at 8th rank.
Disaster The target is Frightened 2 and can't reduce its frightened condition.
Disorder The target is Confused.
Famine The target is Clumsy 1 and Enfeebled 1.
Plague The target is Slowed 1.