Quests of Doom 3
5e
Bog Mummy: When a corpse preserved by swamp mud is imbued with necrotic energy, it rises as a bog mummy.
Any humanoid that dies from bog rot becomes a bog mummy in 1d4 days unless a lesser restoration is cast (within one day after death) or the creature is brought back to life (raise dead is ineffective, but resurrection or true resurrection works).
The hateful bog mummy aspires to create more minions to serve her; therefore she slams her victims to the precipice of death so that they rise as bog mummies under her command.
Drauger, Draugr, Reanimated Remains of a Sailor Who Drowned at Sea in Regions That Are Cursed or Haunted by Evil Spirits: Draugr are the reanimated remains of sailors who drowned at sea in regions that are cursed or haunted by evil spirits.
Shadow Rat Swarm: A shadow rat swarm is simply a massive number of shadow rats that have clustered or banded together for survival or food.
Spectre, Full-Fledged Free-Willed Spectre, Hateful Undead Remnants of a Murdered or Evil Human Whose Anger is So Great That They Cannot Enter the Afterlife, Typical Spectre: Spectres are the hateful undead remnants of murdered or evil humans whose anger is so great that they cannot enter the afterlife.
Spawn are under the command of the spectre that created them and remain enslaved until its death, at which point they lose their spawn penalties and become full-fledged, free-willed spectres.
Spectre Spawn, Lesser Spectre: Any humanoids slain by a spectre become spectres themselves in 1d4 rounds.
Any living creature touched by a spectre must make a DC15 Con save. On a failure, the target’s maximum hit points are reduced by an amount equal to the damage that its touch inflicted. The reduction lasts until the target takes a long rest. A target reduced to 0 maximum hit points in this fashion becomes a spectre spawn.
[H]umanoids slain by spectre become lesser spectres in 1d4 rounds, under spectre’s command.
Devourer: Any living creature that comes in direct physical contact with the watery star has its Con score reduced by 1d4 and immediately becomes insane. There is no saving throw to resist these effects. Whenever the watery star reduces an arcane spellcaster’s Con score to 0, the creature’s psyche is pulled into the extradimensional space, while its body rises as a devourer.
El-Aurens: Natural dangers claim their fair share of desert travelers every year. The bodies of most victims are forever lost beneath the dunes, but some emerge from their graves and resume their appointed tasks. These shambling cadavers are known as el-aurens. They are typically found in groups, leading sages to conclude that they once belonged to an expedition force or an exploration group.
Juju Zombie Desert Giant: Juju zombies are the undead remains of creatures slain by necrotic magic such as vampiric touch, blight and finger of death. They are emaciated creatures with gnarled grey skin, possessed by hatred of the living.
Allip, Spirit of a Mortal Cursed With Madness Who Has Taken Their Own Life: Allip are the spirits of mortals cursed with madness who have taken their own lives.
In his deranged state, Tiblu never accepted the servants as his equals. He confined them to their quarters and, in time, each took his or her own life as they sank into despair and eventual insanity. These unfortunate souls now haunt their former homes as undead spirits.
Demiurge, Undead Spirit of an Evil Human Returned From the Grave With a Wrathful Vengeance Against All Living Creatures: The demiurge is the undead spirit of an evil human returned from the grave with a wrathful vengeance against all living creatures that enter its domain. The demiurge is very territorial, usually haunting an area of up to three square miles surrounding its place of death.
Dullahan: Dullahans are soul-reaping creatures created by powerful fiends from the cruelest generals, the most savage warlords and other fearsome military leaders.
Attic Whisperer, Risen Spirit of a Lonely Neglected or Abused Child: An attic whisperer is the risen spirit of a lonely, neglected or abused child. It manifests from the discarded clothing, toys and other detritus from the child’s life. Initially headless, attic whisperers seek out the skulls of small animals as heads. Attic whisperers haunt the places where they perished, and are typically found in old houses, slums, workhouses, orphanages and similar dreary and tragic places. Sometimes such creatures lie dormant for years, but can be reawakened by the coming of new children, whose innocence kindles the sad spirit’s longing for companionship.
Dire Rat Zombie: In the absence of fresh meat, the dire rats that frightened Lakta back into her hiding space underwent the transition from life to undeath becoming 12 dire rat zombies.
Ghul, Jann Who Displeased Their Lord Ahriman and Were Cursed With Undeath: Ghuls are jann who displeased their lord Ahriman and were cursed with undeath.
Poltergeist: A poltergeist is an angry spirit that is unable to leave the site of its death. This may be due to unfinished tasks, great tragedy, or because its resting place has been desecrated — if, for example a home or other structure is unknowingly built atop a grave or similar sacred site.
Nawalapuura, Bog Mummy, Malevolent Bog Mummy, Hateful Bog Mummy, Ghastly Corpse, Undead Monstrosity: Meanwhile, Chasshagra’s lionweres grow frustrated with the villagers’ lack of cooperation and the need to suppress their inherent murderous instincts. No one knew where to find their quarry, or at least that is what they told the lionweres posing as three strangers. The situation reached its boiling point during a particularly tense encounter with an elderly farmer and his grandniece. Conversation devolved into an argument, and the disagreement then escalated into violence. The lionweres slew both family members. As an unintended consequence, the murders loosened the villagers’ tongues. To further improve their surreptitious ruse, the lionweres committed additional murders in their lion form and claimed that they were also game hunters seeking Game Over’s assistance in ridding the village of these man-eating beasts. In addition to creating the desired effects among the villagers, the lionweres’ murderous deeds inadvertently stirred an ancient evil from her slumber. Sensing the presence of residual magic from her long-forgotten tome, the slumbering Nawalapuura rose from the banks of the Pesha River as a bog mummy where she stalked the El-Rauf Farm on the village’s outskirts in search of live bodies to swell the ranks of her minions.
The lionweres’ killings stir King of Beasts’ former owner, Nawalapuura, from her watery grave along the banks of the Pesha River. She rises from the muck as a malevolent bog mummy and infects Mesut Azaz, a local farmhand from the El-Rauf Farm with her evil curse.
The lionweres slay another victim on the grounds of the El-Rouf Farm. The evil deed stirs the corpse of their former master, Nawalapuura, a bog mummy buried along the banks of the Pesha River.
The lionweres’ killings stir King of Beasts’ former owner, Nawalapuura, from her watery grave along the banks of the Pesha River. She rises from the muck as a malevolent bog mummy and infects Mesut Azaz, a local farmhand from the El-Rauf Farm with her evil curse.
Draugr, Draugr Minion: The force of her will and the corruption of her soul were so great that four unfortunate men that drowned countless ages ago also rose from the mire as 4 draugrs.
Undead Rat That Can Assume An Incorporeal Form: ?
Shadow Rat: ?
Shadow Rat Swarm, Undead Vermin: ?
Shadow Rat, Clever Undead Rodent: ?
Yeshua, Spectre, Restless Spirit, Translucent Spectre, Angry Spectre: An argument ensued, and the lionweres morphed into their hybrid form and killed Yeshua and Shadara.
Thozzaggard, Devourer, Undead Monstrosity, Ungodly Abomination, Monstrous Devourer, Undead Abomination, Intelligent Creature, 10-Foot Tall Withered Corpse: This time, the wily sorcerer would not escape the god particle’s grasp. Madness overcame him shortly before the alien substance sucked the last vestiges of life from him and hurled his ravaged soul into the void beyond reality. What later rose where his corpse now lay was an undead monstrosity that longed to spread its curse to every living creature.
The plan initially worked until Thozzaggard arrived and foolishly teleported to the other side. Like Ahmad, the bizarre mineral captivated his imagination and poisoned his mind. In time, the watery star’s extradimensional properties and his own madness got the better of him transforming him into the undead abomination on the other side of the door.
Countless millennia ago, Thozzaggard also found the watery star; however he succumbed to its power and became an undead abomination.
This time, the wily sorcerer would not escape the god particle’s grasp. Madness overcame him shortly before the alien substance sucked the last vestiges of life from him and hurled his ravaged soul into the void beyond reality. What later rose where his corpse now lay was an undead monstrosity that longed to spread its curse to every living creature.
The plan initially worked until Thozzaggard arrived and foolishly teleported to the other side. Like Ahmad, the bizarre mineral captivated his imagination and poisoned his mind. In time, the watery star’s extradimensional properties and his own madness got the better of him transforming him into the undead abomination on the other side of the door.
Ahmad, Devourer: Hopefully, the PCs realize that they must stop Ahmad at all costs and by any means necessary to prevent a devastating cataclysm. This may include subduing him, incapacitating him, grappling him or if all else fails killing him. If the PCs opt for the last option, the watery star consumes Ahmad’s psyche, and his body rises as a devourer 1d4+1 rounds later.
Shambling Cadaver: ?
El-Aurens, Living Dead, Undead Wanderer, Undead Explorer: These intrepid beings devoted themselves to a life of discovery and exploration in the harshest climate possible. Sadly, somewhere along the way, the very sands that they loved claimed their broken bodies as their own. However, their devotion to duty and their quest for knowledge were so strong, that they rose from their dusty graves and resumed their life’s work albeit as members of the living dead.
For the last twelve years, the exploratory society known as the Brotherhood of the Desert has been crisscrossing its way across the Maighib Desert. For the better part of their first decade, they did so in their human form; however for the last few years, they have done so as undead wanderers.
Boran Ahombra, El-Aurens, Living Dead, Undead Wanderer, Undead Explorer: These intrepid beings devoted themselves to a life of discovery and exploration in the harshest climate possible. Sadly, somewhere along the way, the very sands that they loved claimed their broken bodies as their own. However, their devotion to duty and their quest for knowledge were so strong, that they rose from their dusty graves and resumed their life’s work albeit as members of the living dead.
For the last twelve years, the exploratory society known as the Brotherhood of the Desert has been crisscrossing its way across the Maighib Desert. For the better part of their first decade, they did so in their human form; however for the last few years, they have done so as undead wanderers.
Creature: ?
Juju Zombie: Juju zombies are the undead remains of creatures slain by necrotic magic such as vampiric touch, blight and finger of death.
Emaciated Creature With Gnarled Grey Skin Possessed by Hatred of the Living: ?
Fazzellon, Juju Zombie Desert Giant, Incredibly Powerful Giant: After his destruction at Eyegouger’s claws, Fazzellon rose from death as a juju zombie desert giant.
Shana, Allip, Insane Undead: On that fateful day a century ago, Shana came to this remote field to hang herself from the only tree she knew of in the area. The presumably inanimate tree had other plans. Much to Shana’s horror, she soon discovered that the mighty plant was in fact a hangman tree — a carnivorous plant that devours any creature that wanders too close to it. The monstrous plant strangled Shana to death, a fate she intended to inflict upon herself. Unlike the hangman tree’s other unwitting victims, Shana wanted to die that day, and her death caused her spirit to transform into an allip that still haunts the field to this very day.
Allip, Spiteful Creature, Hateful Being, Undead Spirit, Vengeful Monstrosity, Incorporeal Creature, Cunning Creature: ?
Elapay, Demiurge, Angry Spirit, Wrathful Humanoid Spirit With a Sunken Nose Hollow Eye Sockets and Semitransparent Flesh, Spiteful Monster, Malevolent Spirit: During his short life, the enigmatic Elapay gladly laid down his life for others he barely knew in the heat of battle, yet as soon as he stepped off the killing fields, the curmudgeon would not even acknowledge his fellow man’s existence. Elapay fulfilled his lifelong ambition to die in a blaze of glory a few, short days ago, and no one noticed. The surly warrior lived alone and no one claimed his belongings or has even set foot in his tipi. Though Elapay lived out his dream, his angry spirit remains in the only place he felt comfortable — his tipi.
The misanthropic Elapay’s death transformed him into a demiurge. The spiteful monster obsesses over the only things that brought him joy — the thrill of battle and his possessions.
Soul-Reaping Creature: ?
Canotay, Dullahan, Headless Horseman, Vengeful Dullahan: Avarice and cruelty found a home in Canotay’s evil heart, and his brutality gained him many enemies. After three years of bloody savagery, Canotay’s earthly reign of terror came to a gruesome end. A coalition of neighboring communities and Canotay’s own people proved too much for the tyrant to resist. It took a dozen wounds to fell the fearsome warrior and free the village from his tyrannical reign, but Kimitah’s liberation was short-lived.
The Lords of Hell saw fit to once again unleash Canotay upon this world in his new incarnation — as a headless horseman atop a black steed.
Sad Spirit: ?
Lonely Attic Whisperer, Neglected Undead Creature: ?
Dire Rat Zombie, Ravenous Creature: In the absence of fresh meat, the dire rats that frightened Lakta back into her hiding space underwent the transition from life to undeath becoming 12 dire rat zombies.
Ghul, Undead Abomination, Bitter Creature: ?
Angry Spirit: ?
Poltergeist, Undead Spirit, Ghostly Abomination, Restless Apparition, Being: It is haunted by 4 poltergeists that are the undead spirits of those rare individuals that nearly discovered the house’s concealed basement and inner workings.
Ghostly Skeletal Form: ?
Undead Abomination: Chasshagra returned to Chass searching for an ancient magical book given to him centuries earlier by a hermetic Omaruri high priestess named Nawalapuura. While she walked the earth, the benevolent sphinx avoided the wicked cleric whenever possible because of her reputation for worshipping the Omaruri’s dark earth mother, Owomarari. Rumors persisted that she animated corpses into undead abominations and summoned sinister beasts to her aid during her evil rituals.
Undead Minion: ?
Undead: ?
Red Jester, Bizarre Undead, Strange Creature: ?
Incorporeal Undead Creature: ?
Undead Servant: ?
Lesser Undead: ?
Arcuri, Demonic Knight, Deadly Bloodthirsty Death Knight: The warrior-king Del’Mashon, a worshipper of the demon god Tsathogga, devoted himself to acquiring ancient relics to further his god’s power. In his fervor, Del’Mashon ordered holy relics of other temples brought to him, and demanded that all priests and worshippers of “unworthy” gods be slain. Del’Mashon’s three daughters, secret converts to Arden, an ancient god of the sun, led a small number of Arden’s faithful away from their father’s executioners to safety, guiding them out of the city through secret escape routes known only to the royal family. Their plan was to find a group of Arden’s faithful in a temple built deep within a narrow jungle-filled canyon. When Del’Mashon discovered this betrayal, he ordered the fleeing worshippers, including his daughters, put to the sword. Arden’s temple was burned, and riders were dispatched to hunt down and slaughter the escaping worshippers.
Arden’s faithful suffered many casualties on the arduous journey, leading many to despair and question their faith. But even through their hardships, the sun god directed his faithful to safety through dreams and visions. Following these dreams, Arden’s faithful discovered a series of jungle-filled canyons that eventually led to a door fused with an iron-streaked rock wall. The door opened into a forgotten vault dedicated to Arden. The priests hid, nourished through create food and water spells that created fruits and vegetables and fresh water, and uplifted with ancient texts praising their god. For a while the worshippers thought themselves safe, but it wasn’t long before the thunderous rumblings of horses reverberated through the canyon walls. The riders had found the faithful.
The faithful were put to a final test as the riders galloped closer. Many fell to their knees weeping, while others prayed for Arden’s mercy. Arden heard their cries, and hid the door behind illusions. The riders thundered past, riding down the long canyon in search of prey that cowered nearby.
Arcuri, the eldest daughter of Del’Mashon, could not believe the riders would be allowed to pass without some sort of vengeance being exacted. Her anger splintered the faithful, causing many to turn away from the woman whose heart was so overflowing with anger. Some say Tsathogga took advantage of her ire, promising her power to destroy her enemies — if she sacrificed those in the vault with her. Arcuri fought the malevolent urgings, but her desire to destroy the riders led to her doom. When the rumbling of the riders returning shook the canyon walls, she gave in to the whispered voices urging her to evil. Giving in to the offered temptations, Arcuri allowed Tsathogga’s dark forces to infuse her with demonic power. She was her father’s daughter after all.
Ghast: ?
Ghost: ?
Ghost of a Penitent Miser, Remorseful Spirit, Resident Spirit: ?
Ceruth, Ghost, Outraged Ghost, Spirit: The zither player is named Ceruth, a beggar that solicited donations by playing his zither during Iljanna’s decline. After death, the bitter musician refused to depart and became a ghost cursed to forever haunt the dollhouse.
Kuulagu, Ghost, Angry Spirit, Vengeful Ghost: A week before Cama Obuto’s lieutenants slew him, the cagey general murdered one of his male students in the boys’ dormitory. His victim, Kuulagu, realized that something was amiss with the academy and told Cama that he was going to leave and tell others. With no one else around, Cama flew into a rage and strangled Kuulagu. Yet even death could not quell the young man’s determination. Unable to find eternal peace, his spirit endured.
The transformation to undeath turned the otherwise good-natured Kuulagu into a vengeful ghost with one mission — to rid the world of Cama Obuto forever.
If asked about its death, the ghost admits that Cama Obuto killed him in the dormitory because he threatened to expose him as a fraud.
Ghoul: ?
Nika Tal'Shazar, Mummy Priestess of Hel Cleric 9: The coffin to the right is the resting place of Nika tal’ Shazar, a mummy priestess of Hel whose mummified body has been altered by the sulfur springs.
Normal Mummy: ?
Crystal Biltumur, Revenant, Frightful Monstrosity, Undead Abomination, Undead Horror, Hateful Undead Creature, Corpse of an Attractive Young Woman With Long Brown Hair and Lifeless Black Eyes, Menace: When young lovers are forever separated, one turns to a dark power for vengeance, and the other rises from the netherworld as a frightful monstrosity.
Sukh stammered for the right words, but Crystal spoke first. He heard nothing of what she said except for one word — pregnant. The thought of his unmarried daughter giving birth to an illegitimate child was bad enough, let alone a half-orc monstrosity. Sukh lost his mind. In an irrational fit of rage, he drew his blade and plunged it into his daughter’s abdomen in a subconscious effort to remove what he perceived to be the scandalous byproduct of an unholy union.
Rivers of blood poured from Crystal’s body as she collapsed, whispered “I love him,” and died.
Meanwhile, Sukh waited for news of Crystal’s murder to reach Ubuka. When it did and the eyewitnesses reported Stolen Tongue at the murder scene and made no mention of him, Sukh immediately blamed the orcs for Crystal’s murder and demanded Ubuka retaliate. He hastily buried his daughter’s body to conceal any evidence that might implicate him, but the dead girl refused to rest in peace. That night, hatred stirred her and her unborn child from eternal slumber, and she rose from the grave as a revenant.
Last evening, the town’s mayor, Sukh Biltumur, murdered his daughter, Crystal, and blamed the crime on his daughter’s clandestine lover, Stolen Tongue, the chieftain of a neighboring tribe of orcs. To conceal any evidence of the crime, Sukh hastily buried her body a few hours later in the outlying cemetery.
Love is a powerful emotion. The desire to spend an entire lifetime with one person can sometimes be so great that it transcends death. Crystal defied her father’s wishes to spend every available moment with her beloved Stolen Tongue. Even the grave’s cold embrace could not douse the fire of true passion. Yet, love wrongly denied has a will all its own. After her hasty burial, Crystal’s unrequited soul defied the power of death and assumed a new existence as an undead horror bent on fulfilling her lifelong desire to be with the only love of her life — Stolen Tongue — regardless of the price.
Skeleton: ?
Skeleton, Standard Undead Automaton, Undead Minion: ?
Specter: Cama Obuto buried his countless victims in this mass grave concealed beneath a few inches of loose stones and hardened earth. Still, an inspection of the floor reveals a stray bone or the crown of a small, humanoid skull protruding through the surface. Most of the corpses rest in peace, but a ragtag handful of undead refuses to depart this world so easily.
Cama Obuto, Spectral Wight, Wicked Resident, Malevolent Spirit, Wicked Apparition, Vile Malingering Spirit, Evil Entity, Spirit, Malevolent Presence, Malingering Spirit, Being, Disembodied Spirit, Rare and Peculiar Sort of Undead, Insubstantial Form, Wicked Undead, Menace, Ghost: They found the hidden entrance to his house of horrors and caught Cama with a young orc girl in a dank chamber where dozens or perhaps even hundreds of tiny skeletons lay strewn about the floor. The blubbering child serial killer groveled and begged for mercy, but the six mortified soldiers slew their perverted ruler with unbridled ferocity. To rid the earth of Cama’s legacy, the citizens razed his stronghold and abandoned the settlement in its entirety. But Cama’s malevolent spirit lingered and waited.
Stories claim that Cama Obuto murdered children for his own sadistic amusement. His crimes were so heinous that his own soldiers killed him to punish him for his brutal acts, and the citizens abandoned the community shortly thereafter.
Twelve years into his reign, his most loyal and trusted advisors finally uncovered the ghastly truth: Cama Obuto, the innovator and the reformer, was truly the cruelest and most-sadistic monster imaginable. In a secret house of horrors beneath his quarters, Zabladai’s ruler concealed his barbarous handiwork. There, his lieutenants caught the serial murderer in the midst of torturing a young orc girl. Horrified by the disgusting sight, they slew him where he stood. But nothing they did could erase the stain of evil that plagued Zabladai. Though violence and brutality are endemic among orcs, Cama’s crimes were too great and sickening for even them to stomach.
Restless Spirit: ?
Spirit: ?
Sad Spirit: ?
Wight, Undead Horror: The stains of evil are difficult to remove, especially in the case of Cama Obuto. Having been in his presence, one of the fallen orcs rose from the dead as a wight.
Wight: ?
Will-o'-Wisp: ?
Wraith: ?
Human Zombie: Kor guards his cave with 6 human zombies made from the corpses of several villagers that attempted to attack the bugbears a few months ago.
Zombie: ?
