Hi guys...I'm very interested for the 6?house mutations...what have the ash ghouls and the ascended sleepers at the face?Tentacles?A giant nose?

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flutes

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Well the mutations seem to work in the stages of the face literally falling off and tentacles growing out. As seen in thie bestiary, it starts with an Ash Zombie with no eyes, then an Ash Ghoul with the tentacle starting, then finally, the Ascended Sleeper with the full on zombie-esque ZZ Top growth.

These growths are caused by Corprus, and the architect of the design appears to be Dagoth Ur's twisted dreams.

What that Velas dude said.
And my signature also has something to say about the mutations.

I didn't even notice that the tenticles were growing from a hole in their faces until I had seen that concept art. I always thought they were just some strange elephant monster thingy.
Then I started to look at the Ash-Ghouls better and I noticed that they were much cooler then I had originally thought.

Yeah...flutes. To make music.

Evil music.

I imagine it could complement the bells and the fat lute quite well, if played right.

Or it could sound like an elephant with a bad cold.

Chill knight, I was typing my response while you already gave yours. But yes, I see. The tentacles seem to be flutes.....

Ascended Sleepers have the noseflutes, Ash Ghouls simply have trunks and are awaiting the next step.

The zombie stage is worse than eyeless; apparently their heads have been hollowed out. No joke. It's further proof of how twisted Dagoth Ur's realm was.

I've always wonder why that is. I see why Ur's servants need no eyes anymore, since they live in the divine dreamworld and utilize telepathy... But if they have no brain, then how do they dream?

May lead you to think that the corprus meat is more than simply "flesh" and contains dreams and thoughts too.

I never thought of that; but to me, taking away their brains and sense organs might emphasize that they're puppets and zombies. Probably only a few of the Sixth House were allowed to call the shots, while the rest are treated as slaves or worse.

What if his "sharing" was more like "becomeing me". Everyone who got infected became a part of Ur's hive-mind, so they didn't need a brain of their own anymore anyhow.

And why the Ash zombies haven't got eyes?

That's kind of what i thought. Dagoth Ur takes care of all that BS himself through hive mind-esque control, I feel.

I guess that also explains why Ash Zombies don't use magic: you need a brain to actually cast spells, correct? I think I recall a past discussion talking about how you gain a bit of mental stress from straining yourself casting magic. The Slaves, which are a "step" below, retain their brains, though tthey're about to lose their faces.

I AM THE SHARMAT
I AM OLDER THAN MUSIC