The cloth scraps left behind by other persons appear to have compounded into a pseudo-sentience.
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Occasionally noted along roads and other locations crossed through.
These individuals are hostile. The magick left behind by intermittent persons' often appears to have compounded with physical cloth. This has resulted in capable entities which periodically appear to attack passerby.
It is assumed that not all individuals result from discarded fabric. The fact of persons being attacked and killed through various causes may result in the same manner: resulting factors varying in potency due to cadavers' inherent magickal reserves.
Locomotion is typically maintained through volitation.
Dispatching these individuals is typically recommended, if not necessary, for the interests of individual travellers and passing groups.
Most individuals are small in scale, making it difficult to disrupt an onslaught.
The head of most individuals is not fiery in nature. Rather, the magickal reserve appears to have focused to that vicinity.
It is unknown why many appear to visually feature eyes and a mouth, although theories exist.
Attempts to gauge intelligence and to reason with relevant individuals has occurred on occasion. That is however not advised due to lack of success.