A Nagloper is a bygone creature from Africa.
Overview[]
The naglopers are strange humanoid sorcerers that stalk humans during the night and feed upon the life forces of their victims. As a nagloper approaches a settlement, its magic puts the inhabitants to sleep. The nagloper enters backwards so that its footprints face the wrong way, and then it proceeds to drain life from children and sexually assault adults while its enchantments keep the people asleep. Victims wake up exhausted, sometimes ill, and may even die if the nagloper's attack was particularly ferocious. There are various magical ways to deal with a nagloper, but more require preparation in advance. Since a nagloper is intelligent and often adorns itself to look like a normal person (albeit traveling at night), this warning usually only comes after it has assaulted at least one household. Individuals with magical senses might be able to track a nagloper after it leaves a habitation, though, and catch it in the midst of necromantic rituals as it uses pieces of corpses for hideous spells. Naglopers can also be identified by the fact that they are often accompanied by baboons or owls, which serve them and act as ill omens.
A nagloper can loosely conform to the rules for a young vampire in the Antagonists chapter of Mage Revised (p. 280). Since a nagloper feeds on life force and necromantic energy, it must be affected with conjunctional Life and Matter magic if its Pattern is to be physically altered. Naglopers might have with them owls or talking baboons and can vast various curses, sleeping enchantments and life-stealing Effects.
Trivia[]
- After the publication of MTAs: Dead Magic
, the Nagloper were republished as a vampire bloodline of Clan Tzimisce for the Laibon legacy in VTM: Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom .
References[]
- MTAs: Dead Magic, p. 33-34