Editing Caliban (Ravenloft) (section)

===Banshee===
Banshees, also known as Ice Queens and Wailing Women, are the second-rarest of the caliban breeds, and lack the blatant deformities of other breeds; their skin is unnaturally pale and cold to the touch, like that of a corpse just before it starts to decay. Sometimes, harmless frost will form and dissipate from their skin instead of sweat. Their hair, usually being pitch black, silver or white, is smooth and grows to great lengths at a relatively short amount of time. Their lips are likewise either black or white. Their voices are melodic and disturbing at the same time, filled with hidden melancholia and a longing for that which was lost.

Indeed, banshees are known for their beauty, and have been mistaken for [[human]], [[half-elf]] or even [[elf]] women at a glance, such is their delicate, almost spectral beauty. But the subtlety of their mutations, and the macabre, unnatural nature of that beauty means they are no less outcasts. They often mistaken for [[necromancer]]s and [[warlock]]s, or even for the more "beautiful" forms of [[undead]], such as [[vampire]]s and [[ghost]]s. Banshee performers are common, but are loved and feared at the same time; humans lust for their beauty, but hate and fear their association with death. It is said that when a human looks into a banshee's dark eyes, he sees the inevitability of his own demise, and her haunting voice, he hears the bells of the reaper.

Banshees have equally strong affinities for both music and magic, and so frequently become [[wizard]]s (almost always [[necromancer]]s) or [[bard]]s, if they don't [[multiclassing|multiclass]] between the two. Some of the most powerful Dirgesingers in the [[Demiplane of Dread]] are banshee calibans.

Incidentally, we all know that, even as banshees are canonically an all-female breed, you still want to play a ''male'' banshee who [[trap|is just so pretty that he gets mistaken for a woman]].

With [[Pathfinder]] having created its take on the [[Changeling]] as a "so beautiful it's a curse" magical humanoid with a tainted lineage (in their case, daughters of [[hag]]s), it's hilarious to look back and compare them to Banshee calibans.