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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7387819" data-attributes="member: 7006">If you're looking for a origination location for the undead that the party could actually perhaps go to (for instance after the Omu and Tomb are taken care of), there's an undead pocket plane described in the 4E adventure 'Demon Queen's Enclave' that could perhaps serve your purposes.  Here's the introductory text to this pocket called Deadhold:DEADHOLDThis strange realm of the walking dead exists within a splinter of the Shadowfell. Legends speak of dark realms within the plane that come into being under the influence of overwhelming evil or vast concentrations of magic. Deadhold is one of these, a desert land where an endless sea of zombies awaits the command of the demon lord Orcus to march upon his unsuspecting enemies.  Deadhold was forged in eons past when Orcus seized an astral domain and slew its residents. The demon prince then raised the slain residents as the living dead and drew the realm into the Shadowfell where he could hide it and cultivate it for future use. Today, it serves as a staging ground for his once-great legion of zombies— the Shambling Horde. Thrullzon once commanded the Shambling Horde, but in the aftermath of the exarch’s defeat, Orcus has yet to raise up a replacement to take command of the zombies.EnvironmentDeadhold is a great desert covering some 700 square miles. The realm is spherical, and thick cloud cover endlessly clogs its sky. The full day here is 24 hours long, but only 4 hours of twilight mark the night. The temperature is consistently as hot as a summer’s day, and the stench of decay and rot fills the air. Flies buzz across the sky in great clouds as they feast upon the flesh of the undead.  Aside from the major sites noted below, Deadhold is a desert of ash and gray sand dotted with the skeletal remains of countless creatures.The Sea of RotThis 50-foot-deep, 3-mile-wide rift circumscribes Deadhold like an equator. The Sea of Rot is so named because it is filled with a seemingly endless legion of zombies. Mortal creatures offered as sacrifices to Orcus have their spirits reborn here as conscripts in the Shambling Horde. When Orcus has need of a zombie army, he creates a portal from this place to the battlefield. Luckily for his enemies, the process of opening these portals requires such levels of power that Orcus does so only infrequently. Hordethrone OverviewThe only known settlement in Deadhold, Hordethrone is a small outpost that sits within a plateau in the midst of the Sea of Rot. A narrow bridge connects it to nearby high ground. When Thrullzon commanded the Shambling Horde, he ruled from here. *****Now granted the actual description above does include some fluff parts you'd probably not necessarily want involved for your story (Orcus being one of them), but then again there's nothing within the actual description that makes it plain to travelers there that it *is* a staging ground for Orcus.  All that really needs to be stated is that Ras Nzi has his portal that feeds into the Sea of Rot that gives him a virtually endless supply of zombies.  The Orcus thing (if you even go in that direction) might not even come up unless your group actually traveled through the portal to Deadhold itself.I found 'Demon Queen's Enclave' to actually be one of the better 4E modules WotC produced, as it was a wonderful smaller-scale drow political intrigue adventure.  A really compact and interesting drow settlement with some really interesting NPCs.  And it was much easier to use than trying to navigate the size of like the Menzoberanzan box set.</blockquote>

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