Undead Origins

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Weekly Beasties: Cursed Allip
5e
Cursed Allip: What happens to those poor creatures who neglect the gods or their alignments? If they are unlucky enough to die without recommitting themselves to a fixed path they may find themselves on a razor's edge – neither Good or Evil, but too passionate to dwell in purgatorial realms. This delicate state can shred the psyche of indecisive souls, leaving behind mad shades which are almost impossible to reason with.
Cursed Allip, Mad Shade: ?
Cursed Allip, Nuisance: ?
Cursed Allip, Fatal Hazard: ?

 

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Weekly Beasties: Dark Bodok
5e
Dark Bodak: Upon death [from a dark bodak's slow death gaze], the target’s body will rise again as a bodak after 1d12 rounds.
Unlike skeletons and zombies, which are remnants of necrotic magic, bodaks are created by a direct intrusion of Chaotic Evil into the material world.
Their greatest power is an ability to inflict their undead condition on other humanoids with a single glance, dooming that creature to a slow death.
Skeleton: Unlike skeletons and zombies, which are remnants of necrotic magic, bodaks are created by a direct intrusion of Chaotic Evil into the material world.
Zombie: Unlike skeletons and zombies, which are remnants of necrotic magic, bodaks are created by a direct intrusion of Chaotic Evil into the material world.

 

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Weekly Beasties: Gloom
5e
Gloom: ?
Gloom, Undead Spirit of the Most Lethal Variety: ?

 

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Weekly Beasties: Jawless
5e
Zombie Jawless: A gruesome guard often employed by necromancers to protect their lairs, the Jawless is a zombie that’s had its mouth removed.
Zombie Jawless, Gruesome Guard: ?

 

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Weekly Beasties: Silent Stalker
5e
Silent Stalker: Favored by wizards and sorcerers as a sentry, the only way to permanently defeat a Silent Stalker is to find and destroy the totem item made during its creation.
Silent Stalker, Raised Corpse Augmented With Powerful Necromantic Magics, Most Feared of the Undead: ?
Silent Stalker, Sentry: ?

 

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Weekly Beasties: The Clinging Shade
5e
Clinging Shade Ghost: Sometimes, when a person has their life unjustly taken from them, their spirit refuses to pass on to their next plane of existence and they become a Clinging Shade.
The happy bride killed on her wedding day. The soldier who dies after the war is won. The long-waiting mother who succumbs in the childbirth bed. These are the soil from which the Clinging Shade springs. Whenever players brush against an ironic tragedy, they should be wary. There’s always a chance that the victim will linger to haunt them and bring about their own terrible demise.

 

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Weekly Beasties: Unholy Bull
5e
Unholy Bull: In a last-ditch effort to save their businesses, some arenas hired necromancers to reanimate and empower bull corpses.
Zomb the Unholy, Unholy Bull: ?
Zombie: ?

 

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Weekly Beasties: Waste Slime
5e
Waste Slime: Excrement and waste aren’t just disgusting, they’re also a vessel of death. While most tend to forget it, feces is just the end product of people and animals eating things that were once alive. And when a necromancer forgets? The results can be unexpected and dire. Born from the residue of powerful necromantic spells, the Waste Slime is an undead pile of filth driven to kill by a hunger that it can’t understand and [can] never satisfy.
Waste slimes arise from horrid sewers, latrines, and befouled wells. While less common, waste slimes can also arise from stagnant bogs, marshes, or ponds.
Waste Slime, Undead Pile of Filth: ?

 

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Where There's a Will (5e)
5e
Captain Tyric Selflit, The Spectre of the Sea: Captain Selflit is some sort of undead, who won't rest until his original unjust death at the hands of authorities who wrongly accused him of piracy is avenged.
Undead: ?
Foul Drowned Cleric: ?

 

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Whisper House
5e
Undigested Swarm: Animated by Nalakai Labauve, the undigested swarm was placed here to serve as a guardian for the magical cauldron kept in the hall.
Undigested Swarm, Foul Ooze-Like Undead Horror That Resembles a Jumble of Melted Bones Floating Amid an Oozing Brown and Yellow Slurry That Reeks of Rotten Meat: ?
Lucretta Haraksos, Cruel Hateful Spectre: Nalakai’s last “wife” was a nobleman’s daughter named Lucretta Haraksos. Though Lucretta entered Labauve Manor a quiet, kind, and well-mannered young lady, her years living with Nalakai and his unwholesome progeny took their toll. By the time she gave birth to she and Nalakai’s first child, and despite months of prolonged physical and emotional abuse, Lucretta had developed a strong emotional tie to Nalakai—a form of capture bonding. This bond strengthened even more with time, until Lucretta believed she was truly in love with Nalakai. Within a few years, she quietly murdered the few remaining “wives” Nalakai kept at the manor and solidified her position as the lady of the manor. She bore three more children for her inhuman husband and spent many years rearing them and tending to Nalakai’s other offspring. Shortly after the birth of her fourth child, Nalakai abducted another young woman and brought her to the manor. Overwhelmed with feelings of anger and betrayal, Lucretta murdered the girl by tossing her into the pit in area B4 and then hung herself in this bedroom. A year later, on the eve of her suicide, Lucretta’s troubled spirit manifested as a cruel and hateful spectre.
Undead Creature: ?
Traditional Spectre, Standard Spectre: ?