The most powerful of all undead creatures, ghasts feed on ghosts, dead souls and, most especially, live ones. They want to take over Iltior and set up a ghast empire.

first-world problems

[…] he little knew what strength, a great, moral effort, a stern, unbending will, and an unwearing faith, will impart, even to one so young as that heroic girl, […]

In eight terse lines has Phædrus told / (So frugal were the Bards of old) / A Tale of Goats; and clos'd with grace / Plan, Moral, all, in that ſhort space.