Necrofagi Beneath Piazza Navona

Cola di Rienzo is fast becoming the most celebrated name amongst the ordinary folk of Rome.

When the market traders of the Porta Navona realised that their people were going missing at nights, it was not the cavaliere of the Orsini stationed in their fortress of Castel Sant'Angelo just across the bridge who came to their rescue nor the soldiers of the Colonna in their comfortable palazzo just up the hill. Instead it was the humble notary from the Aventine, all the way on the other side of the city, who sent aid in the form of a small band of soldiers and priests. These brave souls penetrated the ancient underdark below the piazza to discover and extirpate a nest of Necrofagi that had taken up residence below the piazza and were stealing out to feed upon the local population at night.

Not only did these stout fellows slay both the corpse-eaters and their brood-mother, but they also rescued four of the Missing who were awaiting their terrible fates in the "larder" of these vile demons. The entire district gives thanks to Cola di Rienzo, for without his swift intervention who knows how many poor Romans they might have carried off and how swiftly their population might have grown.