When they died - if they had been a murderer, rapist, an unrepentent criminal - their soul was transmuted into what we called a Hollow. To be a Hollow is to have lost your heart - your humanity - utterly.
They are driven by this lack of humanity to consume other souls in order to try and reinstate it. It is impossible for them to succeed, but to not do so - for them - is suicide.
Or so we have learned, over millennia of fighting and cleansing them.
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When they died - if they had been a murderer, rapist, an unrepentent criminal - their soul was transmuted into what we called a Hollow. To be a Hollow is to have lost your heart - your humanity - utterly.
They are driven by this lack of humanity to consume other souls in order to try and reinstate it. It is impossible for them to succeed, but to not do so - for them - is suicide.
Or so we have learned, over millennia of fighting and cleansing them.