Southlands Worldbook for 5th Edition
5e
Ghul: When an undead with the ability to raise more of their kind, such as a vampire, wight, or wraith, slays a geniekin or some other lesser elemental, the risen creature is a ghul instead.
Virtuoso Lich: A virtuoso lich is an artist whose love of art sustains it beyond death.
A virtuoso lich is created when an artist powerful in both its artistic and magical expression dies with art left undone. Such artists often die before completing or creating a masterpiece, and the torment of the art left undone couples with the artist’s powerful magical talents, turning the artist into a virtuoso lich. A virtuoso lich is bound to an object of art, such as a favorite musical instrument, painting, dance slippers, quill, or some other object of artistic expression that was significant to the lich in life. This piece of art is the lich’s phylactery.
Times have not been good for the Children of the Secret Springs, a tribe of water jinnborn. They wander the northern coastline of the Dominion, from the ruins of Jelle-Anda to the south and west as far away as Succhabar, stopping at springs and oases along the way, many of which are known only to them. Violent confrontations with angry nature spirits and desert trolls have thinned their numbers, and, worse still, those who have died have not traveled to the Hidden World as they should have. The Hidden World is a place of delights and wonders where jinnborn go after death if they have diligently followed the tenets of their sab siraat in life. Sages have theorized that the Hidden World is a hybrid of the Ethereal Plane and the Elemental Planes.
Instead, for some reason, the Children who have died recently have become monstrous ghuls and have returned to stalk the rest of the tribe.
Ghul-King: In the depths of one of the necropolis’s crypts, a ghul has apotheosized into a more powerful form.
Ghul, Monstrous Ghul: ?
God-Queen Jendayi Atla-Hebaya, Lady of Song and Beauty, Mistress of Prophecy, Friend to Isis and Wadjet, Mother of Temples, Divine Healer and Unerring Light, Virtuoso Lich: ?
Undead: ?
Undead Minotaur: ?
Undead Gnoll Warrior: ?
Chosen of Mot: Orcs of the Green Abyss that become undead are said to be the “Chosen of Mot,” who is Lord of the Undead and a close friend or even husband to the White Goddess.
Ibu Daripangan, Undead Behtu, Chief Priestess: ?
Intelligent Undead: ?
Undead With the Ability to Raise More of its Kind: ?
Undead Phoenix: ?
Ghast: ?
Menet Ka, Pitiful Ghost: The tale of Menet-Ka, a minor Nurian king of antiquity, is one of jealousy and hubris. The greedy monarch was turned into a pitiful ghost when his plans went awry and the ritual he performed to be reborn after his death backfired.
Ghost: Mot has three major works of scripture. They are, in order of availability, The Hand of Death, a stoic primer on correct action in the face of eternal nothingness; Revelations of Black Fire, a set of prophecies said to have been given to the lich-priest Astremolech; and the Fuligin Book of the Void, a work of such mind-blasting malevolence that anyone who reads it is often instantly transformed into a darakhul, a vampire, or a ghost.
Ghostly Marid: ?
Ghostly Titan: ?
Ghoul: Cult elders recruit temple slaves, and also perform the secret incantations to transform beggars into ghouls.
Chosen of Mot, Orc-Ghoul: ?
Ghoulish Follower: ?
Unclean Ghoul: ?
Ghoulkin: ?
Lich: Upon the death of a god-king or god-queen, the cult preserves and anoints the body before interring it, secure in the knowledge that these former rulers might return as mummies or liches if the gods decree the need is great enough.
Anu-Akma promotes purity and preserves order, watching over the timely and dignified death of all. His priests anoint those of royal blood to rise again as mummies or liches, and gnoll mortuary guards and guides protect vast ossuaries and cemeteries from desecration.
Yafram the Desolate, Human Lich: ?
Seth-rem Allasam, Lich: ?
Reborn Queen-Goddess Meskhenit, Mother of Destiny and Defender of the Realm, Lich: ?
God-Wizard Kuluma-Siris, Lich: ?
God-King Irsu Thanetsi Khamet, Keeper of the Passage to the Afterlife, Guardian of the Mysteries Beyond, Eye of Anu-Akma and Warden of the Red Portal, Witness to the Glories of Aten and the Depravities of Set, His Illuminated and Invincible Majesty, Returned to the Wadjet Throne and Rightful Heir to All Flesh, Lich: ?
Meskhenet, Lich: The tomb is over 1,000 years old and is said to be full of fiendish traps and wondrous treasures plundered by servants of the demonic god of thieves. A century ago, a renowned explorer and devotee of Nakresh named Meskhenet discovered the existence of the temple late in her life. Knowing death was close, she went inside the tomb, intending it to be her final resting place. A rockfall moments later buried the entrance, again concealing it from the outside world.
Meskhenet was surprised to find another explorer inside the tomb. She slew that trespasser in an epic magical battle and found out afterward that he had been researching a way to preserve himself after death. After taking up his work, Meskhenet transformed herself into a lich before she succumbed to old age.
Nula Nagoa, Archmage of Nangui, Eternal Lord of Kush, The Eternal Lord, Lich, Undead Ruler, Arch-Lich: ?
Ssessk’ai Us’kari, The Whisperer in Shadows, Five-Headed Naga Lich, Powerful Naga Lich: ?
Astremolech, Lich-Priest: ?
Jabir Al-Seki, Lich, High Priest, Necromancer: ?
Mummy: Upon the death of a god-king or god-queen, the cult preserves and anoints the body before interring it, secure in the knowledge that these former rulers might return as mummies or liches if the gods decree the need is great enough.
Anu-Akma promotes purity and preserves order, watching over the timely and dignified death of all. His priests anoint those of royal blood to rise again as mummies or liches, and gnoll mortuary guards and guides protect vast ossuaries and cemeteries from desecration.
God-King Sut-Akhaman, Mummy Lord: ?
God-King Irsu Thanetsi Khamet, Eye of Anu-Akma and Warden of the Red Portal, Mummy Lord: ?
Scroll Mummy: ?
Gnoll Mummy: ?
Mummified Sphinx: ?
Hungry Shade: Long ago, the remnants of a Mharoti army were swallowed up by the desert and churned out as hungry shades.
Hungry Shade, Restless Spirit, Undead Spirit: ?
Goblin Skeleton: ?
Poltergeist: ?
Vampire: Mot has three major works of scripture. They are, in order of availability, The Hand of Death, a stoic primer on correct action in the face of eternal nothingness; Revelations of Black Fire, a set of prophecies said to have been given to the lich-priest Astremolech; and the Fuligin Book of the Void, a work of such mind-blasting malevolence that anyone who reads it is often instantly transformed into a darakhul, a vampire, or a ghost.
Khafash, Vampire-Orc, Chosen of Mot, High Priest: ?
Vampire, Undead With the Ability to Raise More of its Kind: ?
Wight: ?
Wight, Undead With the Ability to Raise More of its Kind: ?
Wraith, Chosen of Mot: ?
Wraith, Undead With the Ability to Raise More of its Kind: ?
Zombie, Normal Zombie: A necromancer is kidnapping slaves from the Ghatazi Salt Pits and leaving their infernal overseers dead. He’s taking the grateful “liberated” slaves to his redoubt, located between the salt pits and Saph-Saph, where he is subjecting them to experiments using the blood and fluids extracted from the dead devils. He is hoping to discover a method of creating more powerful zombies, but up till now his experiments have done nothing but kill the subjects and cause them to rise as normal zombies.
More Powerful Zombie: ?
Zombie, Gnoll Zombie: ?
Ogre Zombie: ?
Tanya Ollevit, Vampire Priestess: ?
Idrenn, Darakhul Shadowmancer: ?
Lost Minotaur, Undead Lost Minotaur: ?
Lost Minotaur, Undead Form of a Minotaur Who Shut Itself Inside and Failed to Escape, Foul Creature: ?
Baltsar, Lost Minotaur: ?
Lost Minotaur, Undead Minotaur: ?
Wakkil Al-Ghul, Darakhul Black Knight Commander, Famed Warrior, Arbiter of Law: ?
Sand Silhouette: ?
Accursed Defiler: ?
Angatra: ?
Sated Fang, Darakhul: ?
Sarcophogus Slime: ?
Rotting Wind: ?
Venomous Mummy: ?
Gray Thirster: ?
