Malignos (edition 2000)

Journey to the centre of the altered earth.

Altered as in people, in this case. A long time ago some people were altered into non-human form, a war was fought, the altered lost and now live underground.

The protagonist of the piece is a down on his luck human soldier who is not a bigot by any means. Altered women are ok by him.

He, of course, ends up on a dangerous trip into this realm of demonic looking people - the title being their name for themselves.

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