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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5983500" data-attributes="member: 83822">THE SKINSACK SHED (16.18)  There is a shed around a mile from the road. Bags made of skin hang from iron hooks set into the roof of the shed.    It is not only horses that can be brought back from the dead by the secretive priests of Baron Autumn. If the stripped bones of a man or woman killed by black magic are placed in a bag of human skin, a child crawls from the bag.  These sack children are, like the cauldronborn, vague and distracted. They often accompany the sorcerers who created them, protecting them and assisting them with their sorcery, as well as performing menial tasks on their behalf.    While black magic is required to slay the subject of the ritual, the actual creation of a zombie is not considered black magic. Some white wizards take great pleasure in animating the victims of sorcerers and assisting the victim in slaying their murderer.  Hooks Who owns and uses the shed?Who in the Shrouded Lands is a zombie?  Does the process work on non-humans?  What does Baron Autumn ask in return?  How aware and intelligent are the zombies?  Are the zombies truly undead? If so, are the horses?  What is the connection between this process and that of the cauldronborn?  What happens to most people after death?    ---    Inspired by 'All I Needed to Know, I Learned from D&D' in Dragon 288.  THE ENIGMA (07.08)One of the witchways or merlinburrows that leads from the Sunless Sea forks about a mile below the surface. The lefthand path leads to an open cavern, the centre of which is occupied by a basalt slab at least fifty yards high. Strange words are carved around the base of the slab, and people who consider what the stone would look like from a distance realise that it would resemble an enormous bald head.  The head is a site of pilgrimage for adherents of the Stern Way, but they claim that the head is absent from their myths and histories.  Hooks  What is a witchway? What are the merlinburrows?  Who is depicted?  How was the head created and by whom?  What is the meaning of the words?  Is the head really absent from the lore of the Stern Way?</blockquote>

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