[366 Days of Monsters] Day 055/366 - Inak (Patreon)

The inak (EE nok) are an intelligent undead species that haunt the tunnels below the northern portion of the Basilisk's Spine Mountains. Superficially, they appear to be skeletons bound together by thick, boiled leather However, their skeletal structures consist
of more than just humanoid bones. Inaks build themselves out of any parts they have available. One inak may have the head of a ram with six long appendages while another may crawl like a scorpion and have a six-foot-long neck terminating in an infant human's skull.

No one knows how long the inak have been in the Low. The elves of Vaskil believe that they've been around at least as long as the Anorian empire and perhaps even predate the elves themselves. "So long as there have been bones there have been inak," the Vaskilish saying goes.

Dragon Trainers. Inak have a close relationship with the subterranean drakes of the Low, dubbing them zogo-ba-inak, or "our dragons". For whatever reason, it's considered sacrilege for the inak to utilize zogo-ba-inak bones to create new inak. Instead, the inaks use the reckless zogo-ba-inak as guard dogs and weapons of war. In many ways, zogo-ba-inak are the inak's first line of defense. There's no question that the drakes are the reason the aboveground humanoid races have yet to discover Kwa-ba-inak.

Kwa-ba-inak. The inak live in a massive vertical shaft pocked with thousands of labyrinthine tunnels and alcoves named Kwa-ba-inak ("our city"). Creatures who lack sufficient means to climb quickly find themselves at an disadvantage within the inak city. Not that it matters, of course. No humanoid who has ever set eyes on the city has lived to tell the tale.

Undead Nature. The inak does not require air, food, drink, or sleep.