Husks

Husks are a creature of my design, they are not an open species or such, and their mythos contains themes of graphic body mutations and gory details, so be advised of that. Depictions of body horror and viscera are within some of the bios of these characters, so beware.

Husks are not naturally occurring creatures within the world. 

During ancient magical practices were laws in casting were less regulated and ethical; a source of bloody money for practitioners in the arts of darker magic went into chimaera construction. In the world of Saventviet, chimaeras were the result of unethically soured, often human remains used to construct creatures.

They are made from the altered body parts of the not long deceased, fused into the subject via blood transfusions or the swapping of body parts to create new creatures from such.

 Or in other cases, still live subjects altered via purposefully botched therianthropy that resulted in mutations to the human body. The subject has to be human, as inhuman subjects did not take transfusions effects and would die.

Practitioners would justify this then acceptable trade as explaining how the body responds and adapts to the changes brought on by therianthropy, including mental and behavioural changes.

The reason for these trials was a means to try to understand human biology under these effects. Still, others found uses for these altered creatures in entertainment, auction, shady science, or sport. 

Husks are the result of these mutations. One cannot be born a husk, only converted through a bloodborne curse. Not a lot of blood is required to contaminate a human vessel. A bite or exchange of other bodily fluids will not result in "huskification," the curse can only be transferred by blood. See >Troren's husk bio< and this >literature< for a more in-depth look into the process.

They are part of a category of creatures within the "blood class," creatures that are inherently hostile without a higher motive other than to feed and not naturally to occur animals whose evolution and biology is not yet understood fully. 

Unfortunately, and often against the will of those under the conversation process, husks were quickly made into commodities while rare and not easy to create. 

Their presence was previously not widely known until years later.

Years later, small pockets of husks which had since involuntarily converted, killed or eaten others and escaped captivity in rural areas where they made their hunting grounds, was when they were publicised and broadcasted as unholy entities that needed to be exterminated. 

Husks still exist, but they are more, so the figures of cautionary tales told to children to stay away from the marshes or dark forests. 

They hardly come into contact with their food source, which is exclusive to human flesh, so when one does strike, it is often ruled out to anything but husk related, so they are primarily devoid from public knowledge. 

Husks were hunted to near extinction. 

A person cannot control their husk state, there is no cure, husks cannot be born, and the curse of a husk is carried as a bloodborne curse, similarly to diseases transmitted by the blood that only affects humans. 

More on husks, as seen in Troren's husk bio.