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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7387753" data-attributes="member: 12731">Basically I need an explanation why this Necromancer has managed to fill an entire continent with undead, when other Necromancers (of similarly non-epic stature) has to make do with dozens, or a few hundred tops.That it was Ubtao that gave him a huge army of undead does not work for me or my campaign.In my campaign, based on Tomb of Annihilation, Ubtao is (was) the protector of Chult and am using the theory that it is precisely because of the undead blight on the land (together with the absence of Mezro) that he abandoned his land and his peoples, as suggested by a NPC in the "Lost City of Mezro" scenario "Risen Mists". Nothing about Ubtao or Mezro suggests they consort with the dead. In fact, everything about them suggests they venerate nature and life, and are staunch foes of everything undead.(I haven't read the novel, and I don't like the idea. At any rate, it's too late to institute a profoundly major change like that)So. If we look at the Omu map, there's this set of stairs seemingly going nowhere (right into the Palace's outer wall), which I'm using as inspiration <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Perhaps this was once a portal to the Feywild, or even a "maze plane" connected to Ubtao himself. But somehow Ras Nsi managed to warp it, and loads of people became undead, forming the army he marched on Mezro. Then when he escaped, he returned to Omu, and with his mastery of this gate, he could assume power over the snake people. The snake people are refugees from Hisari. They were just inhuman enough to not become undead, as opposed to the degenerate humans of Omu. This made it relatively easy for them to conquer the city, as it was severely weakened by undeath (as well as the geographical catastrophy).PS. If the heroes attempt to shut or block the stairs to nowhere, they will find that something is keeping the gate open. This something is (obviously) the Soul Monger...</blockquote>

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