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Voadam

Legend
Orcus Monsters
4e
Undead: ?
Poltergeist: ?
Abyssal Mummy: Over the millennia, kings, emperors and high priests who sold their souls to Orcus have been marshalled as his undead servants.
Ghoul: If the target [of a ghoul claw attack] loses all their recoveries, they turn into a ghoul after their next long rest.
Ghoul Lacedon: ?
Ghast: ?
Ghast Lacedon: ?
Ichor-Ghoul, Terrifying Undead Ichor-Ghoul: Hundreds of years ago, a secret organization in pursuit of power made the mistake of combining two powerful magical items: an orb of chaos and the mysterious necrosis cube. The result was the creation of the terrifying undead ichor-ghouls.
Desiccated Husk: Ichor-ghouls that go too long without feeding shrivel and become moribund. Their blood-drenched flesh dries, and they become desiccated husks.
Bloody Bones: ?
Inevitable Undying: The Undying are elves and fey who attempted to extend their lifespans by unnatural means, and were struck down by the god Enoran as punishment.
Jiang-Shi, Hopping Vampire: ?
Jiang-Shi Scholar: ?
Jiang-Shi Magistrate: If a jiang-shi scholar has drunk the breath of 10 or more humanoids, then the next time it is reduced to 0 HP, it reforms as a jiang-shi magistrate.
Skeleton: ?
Skeleton Warrior: ?
Smoldering Skeleton: ?
Failed Sacrifice: A skeleton of a victim from a dark ritual gone awry, driven by hunger for revenge against those responsible for its fate.
Revenant Skeleton: A skeletal figure escaped from the Plane of Shadow to seek retribution against its killers.
Greater Failed Sacrifice: ?
Specter: ?
Peaceful Specter: ?
Spectral Spawn: ?
Specter of Chivalry: A gallant specter, born of the soul of one betrayed while upholding their sworn duty.
Specter of Sorrow: ?
Deathgaunt: Deathgaunts and gloomwardens are specters that remain on the Prime Material Plane to cause trouble and suffering, even after being given a chance to move on to the afterlife.
Gloomwarden: Deathgaunts and gloomwardens are specters that remain on the Prime Material Plane to cause trouble and suffering, even after being given a chance to move on to the afterlife.
Zombie: A reanimated but decaying corpse, the zombie shambles aimlessly.
Fast Zombie: ?
Putrid Zombie: ?
Zombified Wyvern: ?
Abyssal Mummy, Undead Servant: Over the millennia, kings, emperors and high priests who sold their souls to Orcus have been marshalled as his undead servants.
Ghoul, Foul Ravenous Undead: ?
Bloody Bones, Glistening Mass of Raw Muscle Pulsing With Thick Veins of Crimson-Black Blood, Skeletal Humanoid With Bits of Muscle and Sinew Hanging From its Body: ?
Jiang-Shi, Very Fast Counter: ?
Skeleton Warrior, Animated Skeleton: ?
Smoldering Skeleton, Charred Skeleton Wreathed in Flames and Embers: ?
Revenant Skeleton, Skeletal Figure: ?
Peaceful Specter, Serene Spirit: ?
Free-Willed Spectral Spawn: Any humanoid killed by a specter rises as a free-willed spectral spawn at the start of its creator’s next turn, appearing in the space where it died (or nearest unoccupied space).
Specter of Chivalry, Gallant Specter: ?
Specter of Sorrow, Melancholic Specter: ?
Undead Soldier: When not warring against rival demon princes, Orcus likes to travel the planes, particularly the Material Plane. Should a foolish spellcaster open a gate and speak his name, he is more than likely going to hear the call and step through to the Material Plane. What happens to the spellcaster that called him usually depends on the reason for the summons and the power of the spellcaster. Extremely powerful spellcasters are usually slain after a while and turned into undead soldiers or generals in his armies.
Undead General: When not warring against rival demon princes, Orcus likes to travel the planes, particularly the Material Plane. Should a foolish spellcaster open a gate and speak his name, he is more than likely going to hear the call and step through to the Material Plane. What happens to the spellcaster that called him usually depends on the reason for the summons and the power of the spellcaster. Extremely powerful spellcasters are usually slain after a while and turned into undead soldiers or generals in his armies.
Undead Serpent: ?
Zombie, Reanimated But Decaying Corpse: ?
 
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Voadam

Legend
Orcus Rulebook
4e
Undead: Undead are once-living creatures brought to a horrifying state of undeath through the practice of necromantic magic or some unholy curse.
Created from a dead body.
Created from a dead spirit or soul.
Automatons are creatures made of animated matter, whether that is animated elements (elementals), corpses (undead) or plant matter (plants).
Ghost, Bodiless Spirit: ?
Lich: ?
Skeleton, Undead That Has Been Reanimated From Body Parts: ?
Specter, Undead That is a Separate Soul, Bodiless Spirit: ?
Vampire, Undead That Has Been Transformed From Their Living Form: ?
Zombie, Undead That Has Been Reanimated From a Body, Walking Corpse: ?
Undead That Has Been Reanimated From a Body: ?
Undead That Has Been Reanimated From Body Parts: ?
Undead That Has Been Transformed From Their Living Form: ?
Undead That is a Separate Soul: ?
Bodiless Spirit: ?
Walking Corpse: ?
 
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Voadam

Legend
P1 Conversion
4e
Undead Servant: ?
Undead: ?
Sharrin the Crone, The Crow, Lich, High-Priestess, Creature of the Raven Queen, High Priestess, Old Crone: ?
Sharrin the Crone, The Crow, Ghost, High-Priestess, Creature of the Raven Queen, High Priestess, Old Crone: ?
Boneshard Troll Skeleton: The skeletons here are not as decrepit as they appear. Shortly after Skalmad declared himself king, these five lesser clan chiefs tried to seize power for themselves. After slaying them, the troll king had them turned into boneshard skeletons and placed as guards in this clearing below Mross-Kagg.
Boneshard Troll Skeleton, Broken Troll Skeleton, Large Skeleton: ?
Vyrellis Corpse, Vyrellis the Cursed, Betrayer of Blood and Land, Sugarplum, Eladrin Traitor, Aunt, Younger Sister, Accursed Sister, Black Sheep, Young Eladrin Woman, More Troubling Presence, Daughter, Sister: She has learnt from the fomorian dark master’s how to leave the orb and take possession of recently killed beings. She currently possesses a captured young eladrin female whose throat was slit for this purpose.
“Yes, I have learnt some more tricks from my fomorian friends since we parted."
Vard, King of All Trolls, Troll King of Old, Founder of Vardar, True King of All Trolls, Undead Troll King, Former Ally, Immense Troll: The PC discovers the following passage of prophecy in one of Celduilon’s old tomes, “When the troll king returns and the Stone Cauldron is used two times, then Vard himself shall rule again.”
Blackfire Flameskull: ?
Ghost Troll Render: ?
Archlich: ?
 

Voadam

Legend
P2 Conversion
4e
Undead, Undead Creature, Living Dead: When the Tower of Zoramadria was moved across the Underdark through the ritual, the life force of many of its inhabitants was drained off to power that ritual. Many of Zoramadria’s students that escaped permanent destruction did so only by embracing undeath.
“… She collapsed the space around her tower, transferring it and all her students in one fell swoop to a far corner of the Underdark. But the strain was to great – I tried to help her but I was not strong enough. As the Tower was moved across the Underdark through the ritual, the life force of all of its inhabitants was drained off to power the ritual. Zoramadria saved us from permanent destruction – but at the cost of all of us embracing undeath. Zoramadria did not make it, the strain of the ritual was too much, and her soul shattered. All that remains is her empty husk. A corpse bereft of its soul – tricked even from unlife.”
Matron Urlvrain, Vampire: The evil high priestess Matron Urlvrain has fallen from the grace of Lolth. Rather than stepping down from the position and give it to Lolth’s chosen – Lareen, she has made a pact with Orcus. She agreed to betray her brethren and give over the drow city to Orcus unholy legions, in return of being the master of the undead drow that remained after the battle. Matron Urlvrain used her charms and the vampiric blessings she received from Orcus to turn the proud warrior knight Zirithian into her loyal vassal.
Lareen, Vampire Lord, Master: ?
Zirithian the Unfettered, Vampire, Ebony Black Drow, Loyal Vassal, Exarch, Hordemaster, Warrior, Heavy Hitter: She managed to seduce the leader of the armed forces in Phaervorul, the powerful warrior Zirithian and managed to convince him to rise against Phaervorul’s ruler, Matron Urlvrain. But Matron Urlvrain sensed the deceit, and ordered Zirithian killed. To[o] late did Lareen find out about Matron Urlvrain[']s order. She found him dying in his villa at the hands of Maarth the Assassin. Seeing all her work destroyed by the blade of an assassin, she reached out and “blessed” Zirithian with vampirism.
Orcus turned him into his exarch, transforming him into a vampire with a few of the lesser powers.
Zombie: ?
Wraith: ?
Parthal, Archlich of the Tower of Zoramadria, Lord of the Tower of Zoramadria, Guardian of Phaervorul, Archlich, Drow Lich, Majestic Floating Humanoid, Last Remaining Disciple, Necromancer: He is a necromancer, but not a lich. Rather an undead by the magical oath he gave to Zoramadria a long time ago to preserve the knowledge how the portal to the Shadowfell could be closed and how the undead hordes of Orcus could be defeated.
“… She collapsed the space around her tower, transferring it and all her students in one fell swoop to a far corner of the Underdark. But the strain was to great – I tried to help her but I was not strong enough. As the Tower was moved across the Underdark through the ritual, the life force of all of its inhabitants was drained off to power the ritual. Zoramadria saved us from permanent destruction – but at the cost of all of us embracing undeath. Zoramadria did not make it, the strain of the ritual was too much, and her soul shattered. All that remains is her empty husk. A corpse bereft of its soul – tricked even from unlife.”
Drow Horde Ghoul: ?
Drow Horde Ghoul, Slavering Undead Humanoid, Ghoul Minion: ?
Sword Wraith: ?
Free-Willed Sword Wraith: Any humanoid killed by the sword wraith rises as a free-willed sword wraith at the start of its creator’s next turn, appearing in the space where it died, or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied.
Free-Willed Sword Wraith, Spawned Wraith: ?
Undead Drow: ?
Undead Servant: Phaervorul is just a beach head for the dark ambitions of Orcus. Once he has taken Pharevorul his hordes will swarm the Underdark in search of prey. Sooner or later they will find a way to the surface world where the hordes will turn all the living into undead servants of Orcus.
Ghoul: ?
Raving Ghoul: ?
Brain-Smelling Zombie: ?
Lurking Zombie: ?
Lurking Undead: ?
Undead Minion: ?
Abyssal Ghoul: ?
Abyssal Ghoul Devourer: ?
Boneclaw Impaler: ?
Vampire Spawn Bloodstalker: ?
Vampire Spawn Bloodstalker, Cannon Fodder: ?
Perverted Undead Creature: ?
Lord Dust, Lich, Heavy Hitter: ?
Abyssal Ghoul Hungerer: As Orcus slayed Tomari he perverted her essence of love, pleasure, and harmony into hate, pain and chaos. Transforming the fruits of love – birth of a child – into a vile creation of undeath and zombies. Whenever a player takes normal or acid damage, spilling blood on the flesh of the goddess, her flesh gives birth to one zombie rager that attacks last the following round. As an immediate reaction to the blood damage – Tomari’s Womb shudder and quakes while giving “birth” to the zombie, forcing the PC and any allies within 2 squares to make a DC 31 Acrobatic check or fall prone. If the spilled blood comes from a lawful good PC, one abyssal ghoul hungerer is born instead. A single attack cannot generate more than one zombie rager or ghoul hungerer.
Zombie Rager: As Orcus slayed Tomari he perverted her essence of love, pleasure, and harmony into hate, pain and chaos. Transforming the fruits of love – birth of a child – into a vile creation of undeath and zombies. Whenever a player takes normal or acid damage, spilling blood on the flesh of the goddess, her flesh gives birth to one zombie rager that attacks last the following round. As an immediate reaction to the blood damage – Tomari’s Womb shudder and quakes while giving “birth” to the zombie, forcing the PC and any allies within 2 squares to make a DC 31 Acrobatic check or fall prone. If the spilled blood comes from a lawful good PC, one abyssal ghoul hungerer is born instead. A single attack cannot generate more than one zombie rager or ghoul hungerer.
Zombie Rager, Rotting Zombie: ?
Drow Battle Wight: ?
Balthrad, Abyssal Ghoul: ?
Ghoul Eyebiter: ?
Drow Battle Wight Commander: ?
Immolith: ?
Husk Spider: ?
Drow Vampire Spawn: ?
Wailing Ghost, Banshee: ?
Bodak Reaver: ?
Nightwalker: ?
Bodak Skulk: ?
Bone Naga: ?
Slaughter Wight: ?
Zombie Tombwalker: ?
Arath Nightcaller: ?
Demonic Flameskull: ?
Giant Mummy: ?
Zombie Mob: ?
Lord Carrion, Death Knight: ?
 
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