Malevolent & Benign II
OSRIC
Autumnal Rider: ?
Banfaet: It is not only magic users and clerics that seek immortality via magic: illusionists and even some druids do as well. Those who follow this road become banfaets instead of liches, and unlike liches which share a singular form regardless their background, banfaets come in two forms.
The first is the path of the illusionist. These banfaets replace their body with a mix of phantasm, illusion, and shadow-stuff, and encase their soul into a single giant black pearl worth at least 5,000 gp which acts as their phylactery. They are illusionists of at least 14th-level and their touch drains 1 point of strength in addition to normal damage.
A druidic banfeat substitutes much of their body with either fungus or slime molds, resulting in what looks to be an animated skeleton with either fungal or slimy flesh. They encase their souls in giant chunk of amber weighing at least 10 pounds (2,000 gp). They are druids of at least 14th-level and, in addition to normal damage, their touch corrodes metal as a does a rust monster.
Lich: ?
Barrow Lord: Barrow lords are tribal or clan leaders whose desire to defend their lands and people is so strong that their spirits are unable to leave the mortal plane.
Barrow Lord Undead Follower Skeleton: ?
Barrow Lord Special Guardian Skeleton: These are the remains of trusted followers who agreed to continue serving their master in death.
Children of Coyle: In cases of family horror, where children are murdered by their parents, they may rise as one of the Children of Coyle, named after the first child-murderer who met his fate at the undead hands of the very children he slayed.
Dust Centurion: A dust centurion is the departed spirit of a former warrior who perished at the hands of magic, unable to achieve the death in combat that it desired. This longing, combined with the magical energies from its death, transform it into a spirit that animates the dust and wreckage left from the calamity, forming into a humanoid shape when approached.
The precise material that a dust centurion is made of depends on the great calamity that it perished in; one that died in a massive magical blaze may be made of ash, whereas one that died to an unnatural blizzard could be made of floating crystals of ice.
Eloko: Eloko are the spirits of people who have died in a forest. They haunt a forest because of a grudge left unsettled: typically one about hunting.
Exhumed: The exhumed are not so much creatures as they are physical manifestations of a curse: a curse against those who disturb the rest of the dead! Whenever a human body is disinterred, there is a slight chance that the spiritual detritus left behind coalesces into an exhumed 1-8 days after their resting place has been looted.
Ghoul Skin Thief: ?
Guishu: ?
Haugbui: These are undead warriors, servants of Sorana, Goddess of Death, who were so evil in life that they attracted the interest of the goddess.
Monster Vestige: Monsters, unlike humans, rarely continue into undeath as ghosts or similar undead. Instead, in very rare instances, a portion of their essence remains bound to their lair, held by their strong connection to the area or a strong emotion associated with their means of death. The process by which a vestige is formed typically takes months, so a monster slain cannot immediately confront its slayers in vestige form.
Ghost: ?
Mummy Medusa: In some places, religiously-inclined medusae are known to mummify and bury their dead. As with humans, at times these medusa mummies can return to life to plague the living.
Zombie: Creatures that die from the Nekomata's wasting disease and lose their soul to the nekomata rise as animated corpses similar to zombies.
The bite of a wightrat has a chance to cause disease, but more fearsomely it may drain an energy level if the victim fails a save against death magic. Any human drained of all life energy rises as a zombie under the control of the wightrat.
Osseopod: Osseopods arise out of mass graves.
Osseopod Large: Larger osseopods (4 HD) may form from the remains of larger creatures, such as ogres and bugbears. 6 HD osseopods may form from giants.
Pishacha: ?
Skeleton Fungal: Fungal skeletons are the remains of long-dead victims of the creeping peril.
Zombie Fungal: The more powerful initial variant, the fungal zombie, is created once a person dies from the creeping peril.
Anyone killed by a fungal skeleton will rise as a fungal zombie in 1-4 days.
Undead Rat Ghoulrat: Ghoulrats are developed undead from zombirats who managed to slay and eat a man-sized opponent of average intelligence or greater. They add the flesh of the corpse to their own, transforming into a ghoulrat the next day.
Zombirats seek out intelligence flesh to consume to add to their own, transforming into ghoulrats. Just a single human-sized corpse is enough to transform 10 zombirats into ghoulrats.
Undead Rat Skelirat: Skelirats are the animated remains of giant rats.
Undead Rat Wightrat: The final stage of undead rat development, wightrats live only to kill and raise their victims as zombies.
If ghoulrats consume 10 man-sized opponent of average intelligence or greater they transform into the final type of undead giant rat, the wightrat.
Unead Rat Zombirat: Zombirats are developed undead from skelirats who managed to slay and eat some local animals.
If skelirats manage to kill a large enough animal (roughly the size of a medium-sized dog or larger) they add some of the creature’s flesh to their own and transform into a zombirat the next day.
Weggeest: Weggeest are spirits of humans killed upon a particular path or road.
Wendigo: Wendigo are spirits of hunger and desire.
Ziburinis: Spirits of dead who passed away in the forest, ziburinis have the green glow of the forest upon them.
Humanoids killed by ziburinis have a 10% chance to rise as a ziburinis within 24 hours.
Zombie Hound: Zombie hounds are the risen corpses of large canines, such as war dogs, wolves, or mastiffs.
The Creeping Peril: This fungus itself takes the form of tiny yellow puff-balls that attach themselves to anything in close proximity. These puff-balls expel negative-energy-filled spores when touched. The spores are ingested or inhaled by their hosts, and remain dormant as they circulate throughout the bloodstream. The spores do not “activate” until they reach a certain concentration (50%) in their host, at which time they mature and multiply. Spore concentration increases as long as a victim remains in a contaminated area, at a rate of 10% every half-hour – which means that from time of first exposure a victim will begin to succumb to the effects after 2 ½ hours of continuous exposure. Spores cannot survive outside their habitat for long, and will begin to die off after the host leaves, or is removed from, a contaminated area for at least six hours. Concentrations in the blood fall afterwards, at a rate of 2% per hour. The decline stops as soon as the victim re-exposes themselves to contamination. Casting the clerical spell cure disease removes all spores from the bloodstream.
If someone is bitten or hit by something infected by the fungus, they must save vs. poison or become infected. As with environmental contamination, the fungal concentrations in the victim’s blood will increase only as long as they are in an area where the fungus is present. Once the concentration exceeds 50%, the following symptoms manifest:
Conc. Effects
51-65% Victim begins to feel feverish and lethargic (-1 to hit and damage, -10% penalty on other actions).
65-75% Skin develops yellow patches, lethargy increases (-2 to hit and damage, -20% penalty on other actions, movement rate penalized by 25%).
76-85% Fungal growths sprout on body, lose 1-4 hit points per hour.
86-95% State of delirium and hallucinations. GM discretion if victim is unable to distinguish friend from foe.
96-99% Coma.
100% Death. Victim reanimates as a fungal zombie in 1-2 days.
