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John W. Mangrum's Pennaggolan Lore[1]
Oriental Adventures (Explicitly classifying pennaggolans as an exotic variety of vampire is technically a Ravenloft-specific thing, but I doubt anyone will see it as a stretch.)
Characters with ranks in Knowledge (religion) can learn more about a creature’s pennaggolan nature. Characters need to make a separate Knowledge check to learn about the base creature. When a character makes a successful skill check, the following lore is revealed, including the information from lower DCs.
DC Result 17 This grotesque floating head trailing a mass of bloody internal organs is a pennaggolan, a vampiric undead creature that feeds on the blood of the living. This result reveals all undead traits. Pennaggolans speak the languages they knew in life.
22 Pennaggolans attack by wrapping their glistening entrails around a victim’s throat. The pennaggolan drains blood with its bite as it strangles its victim. Victims who die from a pennaggolan’s blood drain and are allowed to remain unburied for three days rise as new pennaggolans themselves.
27 A pennaggolan can dominate the weak-minded simply by looking into their eyes. Pennaggolans are tough and quickly recover from most wounds, but magic weapons can pierce their supernatural defenses. A pennaggolan can pose as the mortal it was in life by stuffing its entrails back into its body. While so disguised, a pennaggolan cannot be turned and its malignant spirit is hidden from magical scrying.
32 A pennaggolan is resistant to cold, electricity, and turning. Pennaggolans typically pose as mortals by day, but when the sun sets, their heads and entrails tear free to feed upon the living. The creature’s entrails bloat once exposed to the open air, so a pennaggolan must soak its entrails in vinegar to fit them back into its body. While a bodiless pennaggolan roams free, its hollow, unattended body lies helpless. Unlike other vampires, a pennaggolan is mystically bound to its body rather than to a grave. If a pennaggolan’s body is destroyed while its head roams, the pennaggolan wastes away and is permanently destroyed within a few days.
37 Many different strains of vampirism exist — this is simply one of the most hideous.
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