Caliban is also a playable race from the RavenloftDungeons & DragonsRPG. Originally simply Ravenloftian Half-Orcs, In the eight issue of the Quoth the Raven fanzine, the Caliban rules were updated to produce a unique species, with a variety of deformities and five sub-breeds (Brute, Bestial, Cannibal, Banshee and Witchspawn).
Caliban, or Caliburn was also the name of the sword of Julius Caesar, reputed to have survived into the fifth and sixth centuries, and a considered basis for the mythical sword Excalibur.
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Caliban is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, a deformed servant to Prospero.
Caliban learns that Stephano is neither a god nor Prospero's equal in the conclusion of the play, however, and Caliban willingly decides to follow Prospero again.
Caliban is not aboriginal, however, as his mother was born in Africa and only later seized control of the island, oppressing the native sprites who inhabited it.
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