Minor NPC: The Scavenger

I'm trying another minor character. I like these mostly because they're fairly simple to come up with, and I've done way too many Big Bad characters lately. Another image from De_Vermis_Mysteriis.


Name: The Scavenger
Race: Undead
Alignment: Neutral Evil

Appearance: 
  The creature is clad in tattered rags and leather. It is covered in dried blood and reeks of death. It is hunched over, under the weight of bags that ooze bodily fluids. It wields a large cleaver that drips with blood.

Profile:
  The Scavenger is a minion of Wraithlord Dirextrus. It is a creature that picks the dead in the battlefield, looking for usable parts in whatever abominations she is creating. It feasts on anything else that is unusable, allowing itself to grow and become stronger. Normally it does not fight, but it's body is the combination of so many other creatures that it does possess great strength. It is sluggish, and focuses mostly on it's duty of collecting the dead, but it will defend itself if necessary. It mostly relies on alchemical substances in it's packs that it creates from corpses, rather than it's own combat ability. The Scavenger is also always accompanied by undead birds, that serve as scouts so it can tell which parts of the battlefield it wants to scavenge from first.
  The Scavenger is not a strong personality. It obeys it's orders, and brings parts back to it's master without question nor hesitation. It mostly ignores whatever else is going on, and focuses solely on gathering bodies. It does have some understanding of language, but did not see any functional reason to give itself any body parts that allowed it to speak. Mostly, it has constructed itself to be able to carry as much as possible, and be able to traverse whatever terrain is necessary. If The Scavenger is encountered multiple times, it's body may be radically different as it adjusts to wherever it is. If it feels that it needs to be more capable in combat, it may sacrifice some of it's functionality to fight off attackers in subsequent missions.