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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 4609391" data-attributes="member: 40177">There's a DRAGON article that could be used to randomly create intelligent Undead.  I used it a bunch back in the day - it's pretty awesome (issue# 173, I think).There already are a few water-crazed undead in dark sun, but it's a good place to start.  Personally, I'd go with the idea that the first vampire was one who worked his many slaves to death, determined to get every drop of blood out of them possible.  Through a curse, or something similar, he began to thirst for the blood of slaves.Or we could have a gladiator who would fly into a blood frenzy in the arena, and who grew so battle-crazed that he was known to drink the blood those he slayed, doing so in the plain view of the shocked (but at the same time, secretly thrilled) gladiatorial audience.  When he was killed by a half-giant's spear, our blood-thirsty gladiator didn't even notice, propelled by his developed thirst for blood.  However, when he fed that day, in front of a shocked audience, he did so in such a shocking way (using claws that he grew to rip open the flesh of the giant to get to the thick arteries) that he was sentenced to death.Howeve,r his noble owner didn't want to lose such a grand source of profit, and so instead hid the gladiator underneath his villa in long-abandoned catacombs.  The undead gladiator was forced underground, waiting for the day when the lid would be lifted and he could once again walk into the light.  Unfortunately, his owner died from assassination - and he brought the secret of the buried vampire to his grave.Our gladiator was stuck in the catacombs for two hundred years, his blood thirst going stronger and stronger, with only bats and rats serving as companions.  Eventually, he emerged only to find that his centuries-dead skin couldn't stand the slightest touch of sunlight.  Our gladiator now stalks the shadows, picking off both weak and strong, and aching for revenge...</blockquote>

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