#adlet

The Adlet comes courtesy Inuit mythology, ferocious dog-men who - continuing in a long, unfortunate, and decidedly global tradition - may or may not be the ancestors of their creators' neighbors. Stories and traditions differ depending on where you are relative to Baffin Island.

Pathfinder's interpretation is a lot simpler: they're a species of ludicrously powerful monstrous humanoids from the boreal regions, not necessarily evil but quite unpleasant to stumble upon unwittingly. Your average adlet is a nightmare to deal with even by themself, especially if you're fighting in snowy terrain. Add a few more and a shaman or two, and your party will be feeling the hurt.

Still, adlet aren't evil. If your party's looking for food, shelter, or passage through a treacherous arctic pass, I'm sure they'd be willing to work something out.

Frost giants hold that the adlet are the foul result of interbreeding with direwolves. The adlet themselves are not fond of this legend, and as a giganthropology team tasked with recording frost giant sagas makes their way back towards warmer lands, a raiding party sets out to seize and destroy their findings.

On the Isle of Sveldrin, a team of human, elf, and orc researchers works with an adlet tribe's shaman on cryogenic research projects. One day, the shaman disappears into a nearby glacier; three days later, he emerges, afflicted with a mysterious corruption (consider the accursed corruption template from Horror Adventures pg. 16-17). For the sake of tribe and research team alike, the curse must be broken - but first, you'll need to subdue him.

The ningen were created when Niviarsiang's husband severed her fingers after she spitefully left him for a dog. Among Niviarsiang's worshipers are the adlet, who hold the ningen in reverence - and if the party is willing to sink an invading whaling ship, they'd be willing to help them navigate the Screamteeth.

Adlet - In Inuit lore, a race of dogmen created by the union of a large red dog and an Inuit woman. The woman bore ten offspring, five weredogs and five normal dogs. Revolted by them, she put them on rafts and set them adrift on the ocean. The dogs did not perish, but eventually reached Europe. The five dogs intermarried among the white Europeans. The ugly weredogs turned into flesh-eating monsters who took up habitats in the northern lands.

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Adlets are a humanic-canine species from the frozen north. They appear to be humanoid in form with the features of a dog, usually resembling breeds of dogs that popularly pull sleds, and have adapted thick fur over most of their bodies to protect them from the dramatically low temperatures of their climate. Many of them layer clothing over this fur in order to retain additional heat, and craft these garments from the hides of their hunts. Fur-lined sealskin coats are hand crafted and adorn with trinkets and embellishments by their owners, and are seen as wearable art denoting personality and achievements.

Adlets have been known to build large communal lodges, preferring to live in their full packs instead of as individual families as they carry over many of the social norms from wolves. These lodges are akin to small towns in a single building and while they may give shelter to those lost in the snows, it is rare that they will allow anyone outside of their kin to stay for an extended period of time.