Undead Origins

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Legendary Worlds: Terminus

Legendary Worlds: Terminus
Pathfinder 1e
Blackfire Wight: Any humanoid creature that is slain by a blackfire wight becomes a blackfire wight itself in 1d6 rounds. Spawn so created are less powerful than typical blackfire wights, and suffer a –2 penalty on all d20 rolls and checks, as well as –2 hp per HD. Spawn are under the control of the blackfire wight that created them and remain enslaved until its death, at which point they lose their spawn penalties and become full-fledged and free-willed blackfire wights.
Blackfire wights are humanoid residents of Terminus who rise as undead after being killed by blackfire.
Blackfire Wight Spawn: Any humanoid creature that is slain by a blackfire wight becomes a blackfire wight itself in 1d6 rounds. Spawn so created are less powerful than typical blackfire wights, and suffer a –2 penalty on all d20 rolls and checks, as well as –2 hp per HD.

Undead: Those who die beneath the surface of Terminus have a much higher chance of spontaneously rising as undead. This may be another side effect of the strange mineral known as nightglass. Wandering skeletons and zombies are common, and those that die of starvation within the bowels of Terminus often rise as ghouls, as do those who practice cannibalism regularly. The most vicious and violent of prisoners have been known to return as mohrgs. This increase in undead activity is limited to corporeal undead. Incorporeal undead are no more likely to arise than on any other planet.
Skeleton: ?
Zombie: ?
Ghoul: Those who die beneath the surface of Terminus have a much higher chance of spontaneously rising as undead. This may be another side effect of the strange mineral known as nightglass. Wandering skeletons and zombies are common, and those that die of starvation within the bowels of Terminus often rise as ghouls, as do those who practice cannibalism regularly.
Mohrg: Those who die beneath the surface of Terminus have a much higher chance of spontaneously rising as undead. This may be another side effect of the strange mineral known as nightglass. Wandering skeletons and zombies are common, and those that die of starvation within the bowels of Terminus often rise as ghouls, as do those who practice cannibalism regularly. The most vicious and violent of prisoners have been known to return as mohrgs.
Corporeal Undead: Those who die beneath the surface of Terminus have a much higher chance of spontaneously rising as undead. This may be another side effect of the strange mineral known as nightglass. Wandering skeletons and zombies are common, and those that die of starvation within the bowels of Terminus often rise as ghouls, as do those who practice cannibalism regularly. The most vicious and violent of prisoners have been known to return as mohrgs. This increase in undead activity is limited to corporeal undead. Incorporeal undead are no more likely to arise than on any other planet.
Incorporeal Undead: ?

 

[Rory Fansler]

The simplest and best origins of Undead I recall was from a game called Ysgarth.
Living things had a body, mind, and soul and if you took one or more away you had undead.
Zombies no mind
Spectral undead no body
vampires and mummies no soul.
Been a few decades so I might not remember it as well as I think I do.

 

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Malevolent Medium Monsters

Malevolent Medium Monsters
Pathfinder 1e
Faithslain: When the devout follower of a non-evil deity falls to the overwhelming power of servants to evil deities, they sometimes rise as faithslain. These powerful undead return as the result of exceptionally powerful evil or negative energy attacks suffusing their bodies. Many faithslain rise in the aftermath of an antipaladin’s smite attacks, or from the channeled negative energy of a powerful divine caster. Regardless of how the faithslain originally died, it rises from death, animated by powerful negative energy coursing through its body.
Faithborn: These are the animated souls of evil worshippers slain by the followers of good-aligned deities. Much like faithslain, the faithborn are raised into undeath, but as redeemed creatures seeking to spend their unlife righting the wrongs they made while alive.

 

[Voadam]

Mythic Magic: Horror Spells

Mythic Magic: Horror Spells
Pathfinder 1e
Zombie: Mythic Flesh Puppet spell.
Mythic Flesh Puppet Horde spell.
Mythic Flesh Wall spell.
Torpid Reanimation spell.
Skeleton: Torpid Reanimation spell.
Agile Mythic Simple Skeleton: Torpid Reanimation spell.
Agile Mythic Simple Zombie: Torpid Reanimation spell.
Savage Mythic Simple Skeleton: Torpid Reanimation spell.
Savage Mythic Simple Zombie: Torpid Reanimation spell.
Mythic Skeleton: Torpid Reanimation spell.

FLESH PUPPET
You ignore the spell’s material component cost, and add your tier to your caster level when determining how many Hit Dice of undead you can animate with a single casting of this spell. This doesn’t increase the total number of Hit Dice worth of undead you can control. You also add your mythic tier to your caster level for the purposes of determining the bonus on your Disguise check made to disguise the zombie, and the maximum length of the string created by the spell. As a standard action, you can direct the zombie to make a single melee attack.

FLESH PUPPET HORDE
You ignore the spell’s material component cost, and add your tier to your caster level when determining how many Hit Dice of undead you can animate with a single casting of this spell. This doesn’t increase the total number of Hit Dice worth of undead you can control. You also add your mythic tier to your caster level for the purposes of determining the bonus on your Disguise check made to disguise the zombie, and the maximum length of the string created by the spell. You can issue directions to multiple zombies with a single swift action, provided that you issue the same instructions to each zombie. You can issue different directions to any number of zombies as a move action. Finally, you can direct zombies created by this spell to attack without them gaining the staggered quality or ruining their disguises.

FLESH WALL
Each 5-foot square of the flesh wall has a number of hit points equal to 10 + 5 per mythic tier you possess, rather than the normal amount. Additionally, each section of the wall (and each zombie created from the wall) gains a bonus on attack and damage rolls equal to 1/2 your mythic tier. If a section of the all successfully damages a creature with its slam attack, it can attempt a combat maneuver check as a free action to attempt to pull the creature inside the wall, where it becomes trapped in the same fashion as a creature that failed a Strength check to move through the wall.

TORPID REANIMATION
Add your tier to your caster level when determining how many Hit Dice of undead you can animate with a single casting of this spell. This doesn’t increase the total number of Hit Dice worth of undead you can control. By expending a second use of mythic power, you can ignore this spell’s material component cost. Additionally, add your mythic tier to your caster level when determining the spell’s duration. Finally, until the animation is triggered, the spell’s aura is hidden as though with a magic aura spell, making it difficult to detect the spell’s presence before the corpses are animated.
Augmented (6th): If you expend two uses of mythic power, any skeletons or zombies you create gain either the agile or savage mythic simple template. This template last for a number of days equal to your tier. Alternatively, if you expend six uses of mythic power, any skeletons you create permanently gain the mythic skeleton template.

 

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Mythic Monsters 7: Inner Planes

Mythic Monsters 7: Inner Planes
Pathfinder 1e
Mythic Ghul: ?

 

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Mythic Monsters 9: Undead

Mythic Monsters 9: Undead
Pathfinder 1e
Nosferatu: ?
Count Dracula: ?
Mythic Undead: Undead are deadly at any time, but mythic undead are doubly so. Their origins are varied, and a great many undead arise from awful curses, bearing their corruption in life into a tormented undeath, or have been dragged unwillingly into the ranks of the undead as slaves spawned by their deathless masters. Magic often plays a hand in the creation of the undead, of course, from those created as slaves like a mythic skeleton to turning that mighty magic upon themselves like a mythic lich.
Mythic Baykok: ?
Mythic Demilich: ?
Mythic Devourer: ?
Mythic Dullahan: ?
Mythic Ghoul: ?
Mythic Ghast: ?
Mythic Pickled Punk: ?
Mythic Spectre: ?
Mythic Totenmaske: ?
Mythic Wight: ?
Mythic Witchfire: ?
Mythic Wraith: ?
Advanced Fast Zombie: Humanoid creatures killed by a mythic mohrg rise immediately as advanced fast zombies under the mythic mohrg’s control.
Jigsaw Man: When a talented, unrepentant serial killer is executed by quartering, the murderer can sometimes animate its own shredded remains through sheer force of will and rise as an undead monstrosity bent on continuing its homicidal existence.
As if a dozen mythic undead were not enough, we also bring you the severed slasher that is the jigsaw man; hanging was too good for him in life, so drawn and quartered he remains in undeath, his disparate parts driven by a malign will to sever the thread of life for any mortals unlucky enough to cross its path.

Ghost: ?
Vampire: ?
Allip: ?
Zombie: Animate Dead Lesser spell.
Shadow: ?
Skeleton: Animate Dead Lesser spell.
Lich: ?
Mythic Skeleton: Magic often plays a hand in the creation of the undead, of course, from those created as slaves like a mythic skeleton to turning that mighty magic upon themselves like a mythic lich.
Mythic Lich: Magic often plays a hand in the creation of the undead, of course, from those created as slaves like a mythic skeleton to turning that mighty magic upon themselves like a mythic lich.
Baykok: ?
Ghoul: A humanoid who dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the next midnight. A humanoid of 4 Hit Dice or more rises as a ghast.
Ghast: A humanoid who dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the next midnight. A humanoid of 4 Hit Dice or more rises as a ghast.
Mohrg: ?
Fast Zombie: ?
Pickled Punk: The body of a humanoid creature killed by a mythic pickled punk shrinks, contorts, and rises as a nonmythic pickled punk 1d6 rounds later.
Spectre: Any humanoids slain by a mythic spectre become nonmythic spectres themselves in one round.
Totenmaske: ?
Wight: Any humanoids slain by a mythic wight become nonmythic wights themselves in one round.
Witchfire: ?
Wraith: A humanoid slain by a mythic wraith becomes a wraith in 1 round.

ANIMATE DEAD, LESSER
This spell functions as mythic animate dead, but creates only a single Small or Medium skeleton or zombie.

Disease (Su) Ghoul Fever: Bite—injury; save Fort DC 13; onset 1 day; frequency 1/day; effect 1d3 Con and 1d3 Dex damage; cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Charisma-based. A humanoid who dies of a mythic ghoul's ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the next midnight. A humanoid who becomes a ghoul in this way retains none of the abilities it possessed in life. It is not under the control of any other ghouls, but it hungers for the flesh of the living and behaves like a normal ghoul in all respects. A humanoid of 4 Hit Dice or more rises as a ghast.

Disease (Su) Ghoul Fever: Bite—injury; save Fort DC 15; onset 1 day; frequency 1/day; effect 1d3 Con and 1d3 Dex damage; cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Charisma-based. A humanoid who dies of a mythic ghast's ghoul fever rises as a ghoul at the next midnight. A humanoid who becomes a ghoul in this way retains none of the abilities it possessed in life. It is not under the control of any other ghouls, but it hungers for the flesh of the living and behaves like a normal ghoul in all respects. A humanoid of 4 Hit Dice or more rises as a ghast.

 

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Mythic Monsters 10: Sea Monsters

Mythic Monsters 10: Sea Monsters
Pathfinder 1e
Mythic Draugr Crew: ?

Draugr: Any humanoid slain by a mythic draugr crew’s energy drain rises as a draugr (or draugr captain, if it has at least 5 Hit Dice) 1d4 rounds later. This draugr is assimilated into the crew, healing damage equal to twice the creature’s Hit Dice. Any creature slain by the crew while on board its ship, even if not slain by energy drain, also rises in this fashion if it fails a DC 19 Will save.
Draugr Captain: Any humanoid slain by a mythic draugr crew’s energy drain rises as a draugr (or draugr captain, if it has at least 5 Hit Dice) 1d4 rounds later. This draugr is assimilated into the crew, healing damage equal to twice the creature’s Hit Dice. Any creature slain by the crew while on board its ship, even if not slain by energy drain, also rises in this fashion if it fails a DC 19 Will save.
Lacedon: ?

 

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Mythic Monsters 14: Giants

Mythic Monsters 14: Giants
Pathfinder 1e
Mythic Brute Wight: ?

 

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Mythic Monsters 16: Monstrous Humanoids

Mythic Monsters 16: Monstrous Humanoids
Pathfinder 1e
Zombie: Any creature slain by a pukwudgie’s poisonous quills rises in 24 hours as a zombie.
Ghoul: ?
Vampire: ?

 

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Mythic Monsters 22: Emissaries of Evil

Mythic Monsters 22: Emissaries of Evil
Pathfinder 1e
Advanced Juju Zombie: Any creature charmed by an immortal ichor takes 1d6 points of Wisdom damage per day. When a charmed creature’s Wisdom damage equals its Wisdom score, it becomes completely subservient to the immortal ichor (as dominate monster, except it even obeys self-destructive orders) and loses the Wisdom damage it has taken from this ability. A subservient ally who is killed rises the next round as a juju zombie under the immortal ichor’s control. If the ichor is killed, these zombies are immediately destroyed. Juju zombies created by a mythic immortal ichor have the advanced simple template. By spending one use of mythic power, the ichor can instead apply the agile or invincible mythic simple template, as described in Chapter 6 of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Mythic Adventures, to a newly created juju zombie.
Agile Mythic Juju Zombie: Any creature charmed by an immortal ichor takes 1d6 points of Wisdom damage per day. When a charmed creature’s Wisdom damage equals its Wisdom score, it becomes completely subservient to the immortal ichor (as dominate monster, except it even obeys self-destructive orders) and loses the Wisdom damage it has taken from this ability. A subservient ally who is killed rises the next round as a juju zombie under the immortal ichor’s control. If the ichor is killed, these zombies are immediately destroyed. Juju zombies created by a mythic immortal ichor have the advanced simple template. By spending one use of mythic power, the ichor can instead apply the agile or invincible mythic simple template, as described in Chapter 6 of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Mythic Adventures, to a newly created juju zombie.
Invicible Mythic Juju Zombie: Any creature charmed by an immortal ichor takes 1d6 points of Wisdom damage per day. When a charmed creature’s Wisdom damage equals its Wisdom score, it becomes completely subservient to the immortal ichor (as dominate monster, except it even obeys self-destructive orders) and loses the Wisdom damage it has taken from this ability. A subservient ally who is killed rises the next round as a juju zombie under the immortal ichor’s control. If the ichor is killed, these zombies are immediately destroyed. Juju zombies created by a mythic immortal ichor have the advanced simple template. By spending one use of mythic power, the ichor can instead apply the agile or invincible mythic simple template, as described in Chapter 6 of Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Mythic Adventures, to a newly created juju zombie.

Juju Zombie: Any creature charmed by an immortal ichor takes 1d6 points of Wisdom damage per day. When a charmed creature’s Wisdom damage equals its Wisdom score, it becomes completely subservient to the immortal ichor (as dominate monster, except it even obeys self-destructive orders) and loses the Wisdom damage it has taken from this ability. A subservient ally who is killed rises the next round as a juju zombie under the immortal ichor’s control.