Undead Origins

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Legend
Dark Streets & Darker Secrets
Black Hack
Undead: Undead are nefarious creatures that challenge nature by simply existing. They remain in a stage between life and death, refusing to follow the natural circle of life and usually feed on mortals in various ways. This is usually caused by the influence of sorcery or the forces of the Abyss.
Animate Dead power.
Ghoul: ?
Young Vampire: ?
Vampire: ?
Elder Vampire: ?
Vampire Lord: ?
Apparition: Tormented souls stuck in the mortal world due to unfinished business, traumatizing deaths, or sorcerous bondages.
Ghost: Tormented souls stuck in the mortal world due to unfinished business, traumatizing deaths, or sorcerous bondages.
Spectre: Tormented souls stuck in the mortal world due to unfinished business, traumatizing deaths, or sorcerous bondages.
Shadow: Tormented souls stuck in the mortal world due to unfinished business, traumatizing deaths, or sorcerous bondages.
Undead Spirit: ?
Zombie: ?

Animate Dead: Can animate up to 2 times its HD of undead minions. They last until killed again.
 
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Legend
From Unformed Realms
The Black Hack
Zombie: Zombification power.

Zombification – Anyone exposed to the fluid, through: 1-2 – wounds, 3-4 – digestion, 5 – respiration, 6 – skin contact, suffers from nausea, sensory disconnection, headaches and then black-outs. After a period of 2D6 [1-2: minutes, 3-5: hours, 6: days], the exposed fall unconscious and then on revival lose all control and any remnant of intelligence. A slathering, psychopathic, flesh-hungry zombie remains, riddled with cysts and abscesses, oozing with a vile black liquid.
 

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Legend
Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Addendum
Black Hack
Undead: Undead are nefarious creatures that challenge nature by simply existing. They remain in a stage between life and death, refusing to follow the natural circle of life and usually feed on mortals in various ways.
Undead creatures are created from living beings that, for some reason, stop the natural process of death and remain in a stage of undeath.
Animate Dead power.

Animate Dead: Can animate up to 2 times its HD of undead minions. They last until killed again.
 

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Legend
Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells
Black Hack
Undead: Undead creatures are created from living beings that, for some reason, stop the natural process of death and remain in a stage of undeath.
Creatures that were supposed to be dead but have been infused with Void energy and now continue to walk and fly throughout the universe. Most of the undead are the creation of the Undead Queen of the Dead Zone or her disciples, who have been spreading undeath amongst the stars.
The Undead Queen is actually the First Sorcerer who returned from the dead after she was betrayed by the Galactic Overlords and is just biding her time before she completely wipes them from the universe, spreading death, and undeath, to all.
Over the last centuries she has spread a terrible plague among a great number of systems, now collectively known as the Dead Zone. This disease kills sentients of any species and some say it even affects Void creatures, turning them immediately into undead servants of the sorceress.
Who was resurrected by a sinister cult.
Created by the Undead Queen to spread a powerful plague.
Who turns those killed by it into other undead.
Creatures killed by the Specter return as other Undead.
Animate Dead power.
Undead Queen: The Undead Queen is actually the First Sorcerer who returned from the dead after she was betrayed by the Galactic Overlords and is just biding her time before she completely wipes them from the universe, spreading death, and undeath, to all.
Undead Star: ?
Colossal Undead Moth: ?
Undead Giant Insectoid Creature: ?
Undead Plant Creature: ?
Undead Worm: ?
Undead Sorcerer: ?
Zombie Soldier: ?
Skeleton Assassin: ?
Specter: ?
Manifestation: Invoke Ghosts power.
Space Ghost: ?
Ghost: The Cleansing Wars destroyed many planets, wiping dozens of species from existence. Their ghosts, however, still haunt the planets where they experienced terrible deaths, ready to exercise their wrath on anyone they can find.
A megacity planet with buildings and most of its technology intact. It’s completely deserted though as a powerful plague killed the population. Their ghosts haunt the place.
A planet formed by the blades of all weapons used to take a life in the many universes of existence. It’s inhabited by the ghost of those killed by them, but can also hide great legendary swords.
A ruined megacity world where the ghosts of the people who were frozen when the nearest sun was snuffed out haunt any visitors and steal the warmth of their lives.
A group of travelers stuck in a derelict starship asking for help. They are actually ghosts that died a long time ago.
Psychic Ghost: Too many souls met a grizzly death during the Cleansing Wars and for some their end was so terrible their minds created a psychic ghost to divide their suffering with the living.
Sorrow Ghost: ?
Ghost, Galactic Overlord: ?
Lich: ?
Skeleton Soldier: ?
Vampire: ?
Psychic Vampire: ?
Zombie: A powerful sentient virus who transform those infected by it into zombies.
White Rot disease.
Cold Zombie: ?
Night Shade: ?

Animate Dead
The character can animate up to PL HD in undead creatures they touch. They can sacrifice a HD to give a creature a Special Ability. Once animated these undead can resist being controlled rolling against the character’s Willpower.

Invoke Ghosts
Inscribing runes over an area of up to medium distance radius, the character creates manifestations that haunt the place for PL hours. Anyone but the character who enters the area suffers a Negative Die to all actions attempted there. Can be resisted.

Animate Dead: Can animate up to 2 times its HD of undead minions. They last until killed again.

White Rot: This terrible disease is rumored to have been fabricated by the Galactic Overlords during the Cleansing Wars but it has run out of their control. Infected individuals begin to rot on the places they have touched other hosts, and the rotting area grows each day. Whenever a character touches or is touched by someone with the disease they need to make a Physique test to avoid being infected. Failure means they will start losing 1 point of Physique everyday until they die. There is no known cure for the disease but some manage to survive by immediately severing the infected limb as soon as the disease is diagnosed. Anyone who is seen carrying the disease is usually immediately killed, preferable by burning, to prevent further infections. It’s rumored that if the disease runs its course the host becomes a zombie under the control of the Void.
 

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Legend
The Blue Lotus Hack: The Kingdoms of Varas
Black Hack
Skeleton: The reanimated remains of some poor sod or beast.
Animate Dead spell.
Bonesong spell.
Zombie: Animate Dead spell.
Bone Centipede: ?
Soul Fragment: ?
Husk: Next Moment after attack, a person rendered Out Of Action by a vampire becomes a husk or moonmad.
The pitiful remnants of a body drained of soulstuff, but dangerous nonetheless.
Sanguine: ?
Shattered One: A conglomeration of bone and ice and soulstuff, sharp and vaguely humanoid.
Shadow: These inky unliving creatures may be angered ancestors or shades from defiled tombs.
Howling Wight: ?
Poison Cadavre: ?
Entombed: An unliving horror caked in clay and fired ceramic intended to preserve the ancient corpse.
Plague Knight: ?
Silver Shadow: ?
Vampire: Blood-drinkers who sold their souls to the Pale Lords completely.
Draugr: An honourable burial was not enough to keep this unliving horror in the grave.
Whisper: ?
Nullwing: ?
Pale Fang of Night: ?
White Prince Pale Lord: ?
Ephemeral: ?
Pale Lord: ?
Twilight Soulforger, Pale Lord: ?
Xacala, Pale Lord: ?

Level 3
Bonesong: Create 1 Skeleton with HD/Level, from nearby bodies.

Level 5
Animate Dead: Create 2d4 Skeletons/Zombies, with HD/Level, from nearby bodies.
 
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Legend
The World of Skarynth
Black Hack
Famine Zombie: Victims of the Wasting Disease rise from the dead as Famine Zombies. Famine
Zombies' attacks spread the Wasting Disease.
Any creature killed by a Blighted One’s Hunger Curse or Wasting Disease returns to life as a Famine Zombie.
Moorspawn: Moorspawn are the most evil of men returned from the dead to cause even more death and destruction. They are usually criminals who were sentenced to death by drowning in the moors.
Ghost: It is that said two sisters fought over a man and ended up killing each other. As it would turn out the man had deceived both of them and their ghosts haunted him to death.
Warped Undead: It is that said two sisters fought over a man and ended up killing each other. As it would turn out the man had deceived both of them and their ghosts haunted him to death.
Mummy: ?
Spectral Sorcerer: ?
Ancient Weakened Zombie: ?
Zombie Horde: ?
Zolaster, Huge Undead Scorpion-Human Abomination: Zolaster has been transformed into the hideous scorpion creature.
 

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Legend
Blueholme Prentice Rules
Blueholme
Skeleton: ?
Spectre: Any humanoid being slain by a spectre becomes a spectre under the command of its killer.
Vampire: Living creatures struck by a vampire lose two experience levels. A human drained to less than level 0 returns as a vampire spawn, enslaved until his master’s destruction.
Wight: Any human slain by a wight becomes a wight, and remains enslaved until its destruction.
Wraith: Wraiths are incorporeal creatures born of evil and darkness. Living creatures hit by a wraith’s incorporeal touch attack lose 1 experience level in addition to taking damage. Any human slain by a wraith becomes a wraith under the command of its killer.
Zombie: ?
 

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Legend
BLUEHOLME Journeymanne Rules
Blueholme
Undead: The undead are beings that somehow retain an animating life force after death.
Lich: A lich is an undead spell caster, usually a magic-user but sometimes a cleric, who has used magical powers to unnaturally extend existence beyond death.
Undeath spell, caster level 20.
Mummy: Mummies are preserved undead corpses animated through the auspices of dark gods.
Skeleton: Skeletons are the undead animated bones of dead humans, mindless automatons that obey the orders of their evil masters.
Animate Dead spell.
Lesser Skeleton: ?
Greater Skeleton: ?
Spectre: Any humanoid slain by a spectre becomes a spectre under the command of the spectre that spawned it.
Undeath spell, caster level 18.
Vampire: A human drained to less than level 0 returns as a vampire spawn, enslaved until his or her master’s destruction.
Undeath spell, caster level 19.
Wight: A human slain by a wight rises as a wight under the command of the killer, and remains enslaved until destroyed.
Undeath spell, caster level 16.
Wraith: Wraiths are incorporeal creatures born of evil and darkness.
Any human slain by a wraith also becomes a wraith, forever under the command of his or her killer.
Undeath spell, caster level 17.
Zombie: Zombies are corpses reanimated through dark and sinister magic.
Animate Dead spell.

6TH LEVEL CLERICAL SPELL
Animate Dead
Range: Touch Duration: Permanent
This spell turns the bones or bodies of dead creatures into animated undead skeletons or zombies under the control of the caster.
A 12th level caster creates 4HD of undead, +1 HD for every level thereafter. A skeleton can be created only from a complete skeleton; a zombie can be created only from an intact corpse. The undead remain active indefinitely if not destroyed.

5TH LEVEL MAGIC-USER SPELL
Animate Dead
Range: Touch Duration: Permanent
Turns dead creatures into undead skeletons or zombies under the control of the caster. It creates 1HD of undead at 9th level, plus an additional HD for every level thereafter. A skeleton can be created only from a complete skeleton; a zombie can be created only from an intact corpse. The undead thus created remain active indefinitely unless destroyed.

8TH LEVEL MAGIC-USER SPELL
Undeath
Range: Caster Duration: Permanent
This spell allows the caster to attain immortality as one of the undead. The type of undead creature possible is determined by caster level. The caster gains all of the abilities, immunities, and weaknesses of the undead type, but loses a number of levels depending on the type of undead transformed into:
Caster Level Undead Type Level Loss
16 Wight 1
17 Wraith 2
18 Spectre 3
19 Vampire 4
20 Lich 5
 



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