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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MortalPlague" data-source="post: 6138576" data-attributes="member: 62721">Sir, this is a gem of an idea, and I will be using it.I really like what I have going on with the fey, however, so I'm going to adapt it thusly:The fey in the lake desired the prince as their consort, so they drowned him.  Desperate to find his son's body, the lord drained the lake and killed the fey.  To avenge their fallen sisters, the fey of the woodlands called down the rains, a curse against the callous, destructive humans.Unbeknownst to the fey, a gargantuan primordial ooze lay dormant, entombed within the earth, dried and broken and forgotten.  The rain began to trickle down, and bit by bit, the ooze began to awaken.  The alien sentience began to seep up, sending up separate pieces detached from the greater ooze to scout, to secure hosts and allies.  So the ooze re-animated the bodies of the prince and the fallen fey, and began to re-animate other bodies too.These re-animated hosts are at war with the ooze's alien mind; it can't maintain a hive mind, but each piece of ooze has its own mind whose goals align with the ooze.  Creatures with a strong will like the prince or the fey maintain most of their own mind, and keep control over themselves.  Others, animals or weaker-willed humanoids, are consumed by the ooze's sentience, becoming mindless zombies in its thrall.</blockquote>