Undead Origins

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Mists of Akuma: Trade War Adventure Path (5E)
5e
Gaki: Greedy and avaricious souls that fail to find peace in the afterlife never truly leave Soburin, their spirits instead transforming into insatiable oni.
Ichizo Ando, The Pale Master, Long-Defeated Evil, Ancient Enemy, Ancient Necromancer, Necromancer, Dark One, Malevolent Specter, Foul Undead Mage, Disembodied Specter, Master, Specter, Foul Spirit, Dark Master, Even Greater Power, Despicable Ally, Primordial Evil Entity, Cannibal Specter, Robed Figure, Skeletal Lord, Ancient Evil, Skeletal Sorcerer: Ichizo Ando—vicious and cruel, both feared and hated by samurai and commoner alike—ruled Kizaki and the surrounding lands for decades before being slain. He murdered his family in order to obtain power, was known to eat the flesh of captured enemies, and flayed any servants or subordinates that displeased him. These stories and others (detailing all manner of macabre practices) were whispered among his subjects and beyond but despite the horrible nature of the tales they paled in comparison to the truth. Trained by a demonologist that spread his practices under the guise of an itinerant teacher, Ichizo developed an insatiable lust for power that sped him along the descent into darkness. As he aged and his mastery grew he began to lust after immortality, delving into necromancy, and from the Hone-Noroi Keep he sought out forbidden secrets and cast fell rituals that demanded blood sacrifice on an appalling scale. Ichizo’s evil and gradual necromantic transformation eventually garnered him the moniker “the Pale Master” by his remaining subordinates, a name spoken with utter dread.
Knowledge of Ichizo’s blasphemous quest for immortality made its way to the ears of those capable of challenging him and a trio of famous adventurers were sought out in secret by a young nobleman named Shinzo Kitamura to free his land from the Pale Master’s monstrous rule. These three—a potent yamabushi named Maru Okita, the famous samurai duelist Ukiyo Machi, and a mage of great skill named Takanibu Imai—made their way to the Hone-Noroi Keep with Shinzo and attacked Ichizo while he was performing a great magical rite. They killed him but not before he transformed into a disembodied specter, twisted by the disrupted energies, and in an attempt to constrain his evil Maru invoked a great sutra that required the blood of all three heroes, anchoring the Pale Master’s soul to the seat of his rule before it could drift free to leave him nearly powerless.
Harionago, Harianago: When an innocent young lover is tragically murdered—especially by their beloved—the harionago is the horrific result. Twisted by the injustice of their death these oni wander the countryside looking for revenge, driven by a rage so strong that even if destroyed they can rise again, never to rest until their murderer is dead.
Onryo: When a person dies feeling wronged—from a spouse’s infidelity or the disinheritance of a relative—their bodies may rise up to correct the injustice done to them.
Greater Onryo: ?
Necromage: Along with the four bone outposts around Hone-Noroi Keep the Pale Master has animated a quartet of necromages.
Even so there is staunch opposition awaiting them (undead necromancers animated by the Pale Master) and Hone-Noroi Keep itself resists them.
Undead Samurai: ?
Skeleton Warrior: ?
Skeleton Archer, Skeletal Archer: ?
Undead Dire Wolf: ?
Adeddo Dire Wolf: ?
Abominable Dire Wolf: ?
Jiang-Shi: ?
Gundan-Oni, Dreaded Gundan-Oni: Spoken of in legend with the same fear shown to gashadokuro, the dreaded gundan-oni is a creature formed from piles of the dead. This is more than a simple reanimated corpse or gargantuan amalgamation of skeletons however for the dreaded monster is the culmination of dozens, scores, and sometimes even hundreds of the fallen, all of their rotting flesh and coagulated blood working into its form—it is a walking shrine to the dead.
Adeddo-Oni: The Mists of Akuma change people, transforming them into abominations with malevolent dead hearts that beat with a thirst for blood.
Giants, monstrosities, and any creature type other than beast or undead can become adeddo-oni.
When Muraoka is destroyed in this accursed tower instead of transforming into mist, his spirit is torn apart into wisps that seek to bind to the adventurers’ souls. A PC requires no saving throw to resist it successfully but any that accept its presence recover as if they have just finished a long rest and if they haven’t yet done so while within Hone-Noroi Keep, gain a level.
This is Mists of Akuma however and there’s a cost for this bounty: the PC’s Haitoku increases by 1d12 the next time they complete a long rest (possibly transforming them into adeddo-oni that will make for a great villain in another campaign).
A humanoid slain in this way [by the Pale Master's Pale Touch power] rises immediately as an adeddo-oni under his control.
Exactly what the adventurers do—and if they all remain as they are, assuming that none accepted Muraoka’s “gift” and turn into adeddo-oni—is in their hands.
Chaotic oni, Imperial Dragons, and rogue Kengen generals each pose a great threat to the clans but nothing menaces the continent like the Mists of Akuma. The corrupting fog is remembered through whispered myths from the ancient past (before even the Ichizoku Wars) and it has returned once more to terrify the populace, sowing chaos across the land. Since their reappearance demons and oni have been growing more common, but worse than that is what happens to men or beasts who find themselves exposed to the cursed haze for too long—changing into horrific monsters intent only on bloodlust and violence.
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling: Gundan-Oni lair action.
Adeddo-Oni Ninja: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai: The middle of the gundan-oni’s face has a kind of augmetic eye, similar to but larger and cruder than Shigeru’s. It glows every time the gundan-oni takes an action. It can be targeted like normal augmetics (AC 23). If an attack made against the eye deals 25 points of damage at once, the gundan-oni falls apart, leaving behind an adeddo-oni samurai.
Adeddo-Oni Mage: ?
Tekihakai, Gaki Chef: ?
Gaki, Insatiable Oni, Most Common Type of Monster to Prey on the Prefecture, Oni: ?
Gaki, Cunning Predator: ?
Greater Onryo, Onryo With the Capacity for Causing Natural Disasters, Stronger Onryo, Being Capable of Great Disasters: ?
Necromage, Undead Necromancer, Undead Defender: ?
Undead Samurai, Undead Defender: ?
Harionago, Horrific Result, Oni: ?
Undead Dire Wolf, Skinless Amalgamation of Wolf Corpses: ?
Adeddo Dire Wolf, Undead Wolf: ?
Abominable Dire Wolf, Freakish Wolf-Like Monstrosity: ?
Jiang-Shi, Undead Oni, Emaciated Creature: ?
Gundan-Oni, Large Figure, Conglomeration of Human Bodies, Creature Formed From Piles of the Dead, Dreaded Monster, Walking Shrine to the Dead, Undead Giant: ?
Reanimated Corpse: ?
Gargantuan Amalgamation of Skeletons: ?
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling, Humanoid Shape, Monstrous Oni: ?
Adeddo-Oni Ninja, Red-Skinned Adeddo-Oni: ?
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling, Gruesome Figure: ?
Adeddo-Oni Ninja, Gruesome Figure: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Gruesome Figure: ?
Adeddo-Oni Ninja, Monstrous Ninja: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Fool: ?
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling, Guard: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Guard: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Minion: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Lackey: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage, Lackey: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Abomination With a Malevolent Dead Heart That Beats With a Thirst for Blood, Foul Undead, Horrific Monster Intent Only on Bloodlust and Violence, Feral Zombie: ?
Necroji: ?
Markus the Machinist, Necroji, Undead Necroscientist: ?
Bake-Kujira: ?
Gashadokuro, Massive Skeleton: ?
Manananggal: A humanoid slain by the penanggalen’s bite rises the following night as a manananggal under the penanggalen’s control.
Undead: Seiya’s remains are kept at the Graveyard of the Damned, a remote cemetery where the cremated corpses of murderers, madmen, and others believed to be at higher risk of rising as undead are kept—if Fujioka has returned from the dead, the priest would almost certainly know.
Ghost of a Dead Noble, Enigmatic Monster: ?
Shinzo the Eater, Ghost, Ghost of a Cannibalistic Murderer, Hungry Ghost, Most Vicious Inhabitant, Serial Killer, Spirit, Spectral Form of an Older Man, Enraged Ghost: The ghost of a cannibalistic murderer descendant of Shinzo Kitamura that lurks in the Kizaki Graveyard, brought to madness and despair before rising once more.
Unfortunately one of the cemetery’s most vicious inhabitants, a serial killer named Shinzo the Eater that was recently interred after being killed by the watch, has burst forth from the grave. A tragic victim of a conflict of which he was an unwilling participant and fated by his name to a dreadful end, as a child Shinzo found himself the only survivor of a Hakaisuru raid on the small town where his family ran a traveller’s inn. When the attack occurred they took shelter in the cellar where a stray cannonball collapsed the building atop them, killing everyone except for Shinzo and trapping him in the rubble with only the corpse of his sister Haruka for company. Days passed and his mind broke—drawing the attentions of the Pale Master. Having been named after his ancestor (Shinzo Kitamura, witness of the Crimson Vigil) the necromancer saw an opportunity to forever dishonor the name and touched the already shattered youth’s psyche. Driven by hunger and corrupted by the ancient evil, Shinzo resorted to eating her corpse, trapped in the dark and sobbing even as he forced her flesh down his throat.
Days later he was rescued and eventually placed in an orphanage but he never truly escaped those terrible days in the dark; constantly tormented by dreams of fire, darkness, and the terrible taste of flesh. When he finally came of age and was released he found work in another inn before eventually succumbing to the terrible hunger that had been born within him. By the time he was caught Shinzo had murdered and devoured nine young women, each of them resembling his sister. His torments in the hells below have distilled his madness and hunger—separating it from the broken child that first spawned it and giving it a life of its own—and the preparations for the Pale Master’s ritual have provided that fragment with the means to drag itself back into the world of the living.
Ghost: ?
Ghoul: ?
Shadow: ?
Skeleton: ?
Specter: ?
Kiyoshi Muraoka, Vampire, Vampire Servant, Chief Servant, Servant, Agent, True Master of Kizaki, Bengoshi, Slightly Older Lithe Man, Advisor, Great Friend to Kizaki, Vicious Inhuman Predator, Villain, True Threat, Immortal Blood Drinking Monster, Evil Agent, Torturous Servant, Inhuman Monster That Seem Immortal and Averse to the Light of Day, Dangerous Adversary: ?
Vampire Spawn: ?
Vampire Spawn, Sister, Sibling: ?
Vampire Spawn, Wife: ?
Vampire Spawn, Trusted Servant: ?
Wight: ?
Will-o'-Wisp: ?
Wraith: ?
Evil Spirit: ?
Zombie: ?

When fighting inside of the well of Itami, the gundan-oni can affect its environment. On initiative count 20 (losing all initiative ties), the gundan-oni can use one of its lair action options. It can’t do so while incapacitated or otherwise unable to take actions. If surprised, it can’t use one until after its first turn in the combat.
An adeddo-oni hunchling reanimates from one of the bodies and crawls out of the cavern walls.

New Condition: Misted
Misted is measured in eight levels. An effect can give a creature one or more levels of misted, as specified in the effect’s description. Creatures always have a minimum number of levels of misted condition equal to their Haitoku modifier. Kami, oni, and tsukumogami are immune to the misted condition.
Table: Misted Effects
Level Effect
1 Mild auditory effect
2 Mild visual effect
3 Speed +10 feet during combat; Disadvantage on Dignity ability checks
4 Severe auditory effect
5 Severe visual effect
6 Visible physical mutation, providing +1 to two attributes, –1 to one attribute; Disadvantage on Dignity saving throws and you gain the hated condition
7 Ignore the first 3 points of damage from each attack or spell
8 Death and transformation into adeddo-oni
Auditory and visual effects are not perpetual but they are frequent and obvious when they occur. Some example effects are:
Mild Auditory Effect. A disembodied voice repeats everything you say in a barely audible whisper.
Mild Visual Effect. Your hands and feet smolder with red energy during your katas, in battle or out.
Severe Auditory Effect. Whenever you draw your weapon a clap of thunder echoes around you.
Severe Visual Effect. Whenever your ire is raised (even slightly), your image stretches and distorts to make you appear look much larger and more demonic than you are.

 

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Pure Steam Campaign Setting 5e
5e
Reanimated Corpse: Reanimated Corpses are forced into the vile state by mad scientists who use illegal reagents.
The corpse of any aberration, beast, dragon, giant, humanoid or monstrosity may be twisted into a reanimated corpse.
Reanimated Corpse, Walking Corpse, Unthinking Automaton, Mindless Soldier, Slow Moving Abomination That is Tough to Destroy, Tough Abomination: ?
Variant Reanimated Corpse: ?
Fast Reanimated Corpse: ?
Plagued Reanimated Corpse: These reanimated corpses carry a terrible disease that perpetuates their living dead lineage—those infected by a plagued reanimated corpse’s contagion rise as reanimated corpses themselves when they perish.
If the [unliving rot] disease reduces the target’s hit point maximum to 0, the target dies, and it rises as a plagued reanimated corpse after 2d6 minutes.
Undead, Undead Creature: ?
Fell Spirit: ?
Non-Incorporeal Creature: ?
Banshee: ?
Reemus Feathercrown, Unique Ghost, Spiritual Embodiment: ?
Shade: ?
Shadow: ?
Zombie: ?

 

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Rise of the Drow: Collector's Edition
5e
Bone Collective: ?
Despair: When a mortal soul cannot find its way to the afterlife and the mortal in question died with a lonesome, grief-stricken heart, a despair is the result. Whether a brave adventurer on some distant plane of existence or a forsaken commoner, bereft of family and community, a despair appears physically much as they did in life.
If an adventurer dies on the Demiplane of Venom, they sink into the landscape, returning moments later as a despair.
Dodelig: Born of the skeletal remains of long-interred halflings and animated by a dying lich’s final spell, dødelig are a race that was never meant to be.
Mort is also a vehement champion of using the dødeligization spell to dødeligify the whole halfling race.
Dodelig Bandit: ?
Drow Ghoul: But too often the innate drow lust for status leads a male to attempt to move beyond their station. When such attempts fail, there is but one option if the drow would avoid becoming a slave or sacrifice: to become a ghoul.
A drow ghoul is a dishonored drow, given one last chance for redemption. These former dark elves retain their innate lust for power, but as undead they are thrall to any priestess.
The drow heirarchy incorporates the narcotic ertia into religious practices to reinforce the belief that from Naraneus flows all power. As a result, many common drow form an addiction to the substance, and a lifelong reliance on ertia is why many drow embrace becoming ghouls.
Ghost: When a soul is not allowed to rest due to some great injustice, either real or perceived, it sometimes comes back as a ghost. Such beings are in eternal anguish, lacking in substance and unable to set things right. Although ghosts can be any alignment, the majority cling to the living world out of a powerful sense of rage and hatred, and as a result are chaotic evil—even the ghost of a good or lawful creature can become hateful and cruel in its afterlife.
Ghoul, Common Ghoul: Robe of Bones magic item.
Ghoul Ghast: ?
Ghoul Ghoublin: Yoflid is the drow agent responsible for stealing the Moonshard. While laying his plans in the forest surrounding Rybalka, he came upon a group of goblins in the woods—he slaughtered them all, and then transformed each into a type of undead called ghoublins.
Gnome Necromancer: ?
Gogelid: It’s unknown what creature the gøgelid was before it was interred in the Underworld, but its love of play and bright colors suggest a creature of fey origins.
Severed Skull: Sounding their anguish with mournful cries and pained screams, severed skulls possess only fragments of their former lives. Whether a necromancer collects skulls from a mass grave or a series of executions causes tortured and fragmented souls to coalesce their energies, the skull exist now only to suffer.
Severed Skull Flaming Skull: Robe of Bones magic item.
Severed Skull Screaming Skull: Legend says the combatants of this battle were buried alive, up to their heads. The truth remains lost to history, but what is evident are the 5 (2d4) screaming skulls that emerge from the mud.
Shadow, Undead Shadow: Rampant covetousness and grasping greed lead some people down the dark path of evil and betrayal, eventually ending in a reprehensible death. While most such petty and despicable souls travel on to their final rewards the same way everyone else does, in some cases gluttons, misers, and thieves waste away into nothing but shadows—undead things that reach and grab, but cannot hold.
If a non-evil humanoid dies from this [shadow's strength drain] attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.
If a non-evil humanoid dies from this [ancient shadow's strength drain] attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.
If a non-evil humanoid dies from this [swarm of shadow bat's bite] attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.
Ancient Shadow: Ancient shadows are undead that have lingered on the Material Pane for generations, slowly absorbing necrotic energy as it seeps through their lairs within lost catacombs and corpse-strewn oubliettes.
Skeleton: Robe of Bones magic item.
Troll Skeleton: ?
Frost Giant Skeleton: ?
Specter: Specters are evil undead that hate sunlight and living things. Most are the remnants of murdered or evil humans, their anger preventing them from entering the afterlife.
Whether created by the darkest of magic, or by the summoning call of a wraith, every one of these foul undead wants power, so they can take revenge on life itself. The power they crave grants them control over the undead and, if they in turn become wraiths, the ability to draw further specters from the humanoids they kill.
The four prisoners who were held captive in these chambers survived the castle’s slaughter only to be abandoned and eventually die of starvation. Their spirits quietly call for help from their cells.
Wraith Create Specter power.
Wraith Lord Create Specter power.
Spite Spitter: These foul creatures, former humanoids consumed by petty malice towards others, continue to cause havoc wherever they dwell much as they did in life.
A character who succeeds on a DC 18 Intelligence (History) check knows the houses and their leaders to be Nahta-Noj and Khodadad (1), Eddot and Vulpeya (2), Mailliw and Gugg’Hiermu (3), Nehpets and Ixtebe (4), and finally Nylorac and Xhoanah (5), whose leaders’ corpses became the spite spitters after Maelora’s ancestors dispossessed them of their wealth and position, and then sacrificed their crushed souls to Naraneus.
Vampire, Full Vampire, Fully-Formed Vampire: ?
Vampire Spawn: A humanoid slain in this way [from a vampire's bite attack] and then buried in the ground rises the following night as a vampire spawn under the vampire’s control.
Soul Shard: Vidre Soul Shearing power.
Wight: Wights are humanoids who rise as undead due to necromancy, a violent death, or an extremely malevolent personality. In some cases, a wight arises when an evil undead spirit permanently bonds with a corpse, often the corpse of a slain warrior.
Wight Necromancer: ?
Venomwight: A wight who through one means or another gains the interest of the drow spider goddess finds they possess an increased desire for mayhem and bloodsport. Becoming a venomwight is not a choice one makes, but rather the outcome of a life—or unlife—spent tormenting the living, of gloating over one’s victims, of succumbing to one’s basest thoughts.
Naraneus herself seems to care little for venomwights themselves, their existence a mere moment of distraction for the goddess of machinations and power mongering. Still, when a venomwight who displays a command of instinctual desire and devotes themselves to honoring the spider goddess, Naraneus takes note. Eventually such a creature finds a home on the demiplane of venom, as an agent of the spider goddess herself.
Wraith: Wraiths are undead creatures born of evil and darkness.
Wraith Lord: Wraiths are undead creatures born of evil and darkness.
Zombie, Normal Zombie: A humanoid slain by [a wight's life drain] attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under the wight’s control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed.
A humanoid slain by [a wight necromancer's life drain] attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under the wight’s control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed.
A humanoid slain by [a venomwight's life drain] attack rises 24 hours later as a zombie under the wight’s control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed.
“As we stood chained to the wall, we were forced to watch Yul at work – and hideous employment it was too! He took Abylo, our nimble scout, and made a few incisions into his still-living body.
As our friend cried out in painful torment, the necromancer flayed Abylo’s skin from his muscles, slit open his chest and rib cage, and exposed his still-beating heart. It was all too much for our companion, who expired with a final curse on his tormentor. Yul simply chuckled, inserted his hand between the bones and grasped the yet-fluttering organ.
Muttering an incantation swiftly, our jailer squeezed the heart until blood burst over his arms. Then, to our horror, what was once Abylo uttered a soul-chilling moan and struggled from the table he’d been pinned to, tearing free from the restraining nails and rising as a zombie!”—Fin Starling, proprietor of the Thirsty Serpent Tavern
The spirits of Adrik’s Folly have been dormant for almost a decade, but with the reoccupation of the castle they have begun to stir. While there are a number of specific specters within Adrik’s Folly, there are also several spirits that have begun to manifest anywhere within a quarter of a mile of the castle walls. These spirits fade when the other haunts of Adrik’s Folly are sent to rest.
The Dead Walk
The spirits of the dead crave life, but inhabiting the freshly killed is the closest they can achieve. There is a 25% chance any time a humanoid dies that it becomes a zombie the next round.
Robe of Bones magic item.
Zombie Mammoth: A huge Vikmordere war mammoth rises from the mud, reanimated by the ambient energies that surround the keep and “awake” again after sensing the passing adventurers.
Bone Collective, Almost a Fluid, Spy, Sneak: ?
Bone Collective, Humanoid Form: ?
Bone Collective, Clattering Swarm: ?
Bone Collective, Undead Guardian: ?
Despair, Former Adventurer: ?
Despair, Initial Dreamer: ?
Dodelig, Short Mineralized Skeleton, Former Halfling, Quasi-Undead, Once-Halfling: ?
Iolra Gamesy, Maestro of Meats, Dodelig, Famous Chef: ?
Lia Chulja, Lady of Lard, Dodelig, Charitable Person, Chef, Matriarch: ?
Dodelig Maestro: ?
Mort Pips, Dodelig, Very Exotic Skeletal Femme Fatale, Optimist, Born Pragmatist, Vehement Champion: ?
Dodelig Skull-Juggler: ?
Drow Ghoul, Dishonored Drow, Former Dark Elf: ?
Yoflid Gullion, Drow Ghoul, Exiled Member of House Gullion, Drow Agent, Clever Lieutenant, Undead Drow: ?
Drow Ghoul, Disciple of Yoflid: ?
Drow Ghoul, Undead Dark Elf: ?
Adrik Holmir, Ghost, Spirit: Adrik’s spirit still haunts his keep, full of rage at the Vikmordere and bound to his armor and sword.
Venthori, Ghost, Ghostly-Looking Drow: ?
Ucecarni, Ghost, Ghostly-Looking Drow: ?
Ghoul, Undead Scavenger, Free-Willed Undead: ?
Strong-Willed Ghoul: ?
Ghoul King: ?
Senior Ghoul: ?
Ghoul, Lesser Undead: ?
Vexronios, Ancient Ghoul Overlord: ?
Ghast, Previous Elite Member of the City's Population: ?
Ghast Who Practices Druidry: ?
Senior Ghast: ?
Gore Pudding: ?
Gogelid, Family Pet: ?
Gogelid, Fierce Front Line of Protection: ?
Gogelid, Vengeful Predator: ?
Mol, Ancient Shadow, Valued House Servant, Shade: Through all this [Mathorn's] memory for Mol burned fiercely, and on a daily basis she openly told Naraneus how she wished the tutor was with her still. It was only when she wrapped herself in the gloom that she realized Mol had been returned to her as a shadow.
Shadow, Undead Thing That Reaches and Grabs But Cannot Hold: ?
Skeleton, Staggering Skeleton: ?
Jarl Jeirrod, Frost Giant Skeleton: The foul energy and diabolic influence upon the Dark Wood causes devils to appear or the dead to rise. Jarl Jeirrod slumbers away the centuries in his great stone dais, but wakes to meet any who disturb his final chambers.
Skeleton, Newly Animated Skeleton: ?
Bonestitched Skeleton, Gigantic Misshapen Skeleton: ?
Skeleton, Minor Undead: ?
Undead Skeletal Giant: ?
Skeleton, Lesser Undead: ?
Specter, Evil Undead That Hates Sunlight and Living Things, Foul Undead: ?
Specter, Remnants of a Murdered Human: ?
Specter, Remnants of an Evil Human: ?
Specter, Beleagured Spirit, Forsaken Prisoner: ?
Matron Mother Xhoanah Nylorac, Spite Spitter: ?
Vampire Spawn, Soulless Creature: ?
Vampire, Sentient Undead: ?
Alin Durqua, Weakened Vampire Spawn: All is not what it seems, however; Durqua was slain by a tribe of vampire Vikmordere, which then attempted to turn him into a vampire spawn—he resisted with all his heart, and the effect never fully took place.
Vampire Vikmodere: ?
Vampire, Pale Wiry Undead: ?
Strong-Willed Vampire: ?
Soul Shard, Ethereal Undead: ?
Underwater Wight: ?
Wight, Wight Craftsman: ?
Yul the Necromancer, Wight Necromancer, Undead Necromancer, Opportunist: Although thoroughly defeated, Yul’s corrupted spirit refused to leave the keep. It existed as a bitter, wraith-like form bound to the torture room where Tathious had killed him.
Here, Yul poured over his books and scrolls, seeking to regain his former power yet still angry at his inability to control his undead army. Finally he understood his error; alive he was never “one of them” and had to rule by fear, a weak and fragile tool, as opposed to commanding by authority alone. Yul re-entered his body and rose as an undead necromancer, able to hold sway over countless undead.
Yul the Necromancer, Wraith-Like Form, Opportunist: Although thoroughly defeated, Yul’s corrupted spirit refused to leave the keep. It existed as a bitter, wraith-like form bound to the torture room where Tathious had killed him.
Venomwight, Sea-Green Aquatic Drow: ?
Wight-Knight: ?
Wight, Lesser Undead: ?
Wraith, Dark Shape With Two Flickering Pinpoints of Light Where Its Eyes Should Be, Undead Creature Born of Evil and Darkness: ?
Wraith, Grim-Looking Undead: ?
Tarankeerath, Wraith Lord: ?
Zombie, Gray Shape, Walking Dead: ?
Zombie, Zombie Elf: ?
Zombie, Recently Animated Zombie: ?
Zombie, Worker Zombie: ?
Mammoth Zombie, Huge Vikmodere War Mammoth: ?
Freshly Made Zombie Drow: ?
Drow Zombie: ?
Zombie Slave: ?
Humanoid Zombie: ?
Zombie Minion: ?
Zombie, Minor Undead Being, Lesser Undead: ?
Zombie, Lake Zombie, Zombified Remains of a Drow Patrol Member: ?
Zombie Mount: ?
Undead, Undead Creature: ?
Undead Minion: ?
Undead Servant: Libram Necrolis
A slim tome bound in a leather crafted from dwarf skin, this volume is dedicated to the creation and control of undead servants—not just a collection of spells, more a “How To” on creating lower forms of undead that are robust and less prone to falling apart. It is written by Makinnga Gullion.
Mindless Undead: ?
Undead Admirer: ?
Undead Companion: ?
Undead Ancestor: ?
Undead Soul: ?
Drifting Incorporeal Undead: ?
Xulthara, Banshee, Mindless Undead, Former Matron: With Xulthara finally dead at their feet, her sentence was enacted; the Xarenrae animated her corpse as a mindless undead and imprisoned her deep within the ruined fortress, a punishment far worse than a swift death for a drow.
Spectral Undead: ?
Expendable Undead: ?
Undead Worker: ?
Undead Soldier: ?
Minor Undead Being: ?
Free-Willed Undead: ?
Rakha, Undead Intelligence, Immobile Mummified Husk, No-Longer-All-Dead Alpha Female: Lograx is surprisingly sentimental—as far as this can be claimed for the deadly predator-race. Unbeknownst to his kin he has created a secret shrine that can only be accessed via a tunnel under the lake’s waters where he has mummified the remains of his erstwhile love, offering profane sacrifices to any entity that may be listening. The twitches of unlife are starting to show in the dried husk of his lady’s corpse.
Undead Dwarven Warrior: ?
Undead Dwarven Battle Mage: ?
Undead Crewmember: ?
Undead Grick: ?
Undersea Undead: ?
Listless Undead: ?
Drow Undead: ?
Lesser Undead: ?
Undead Race: ?
Faithful Undead Follower: ?
Undead Giant: ?
Undead Virus: [A]n undead virus created by the first lich Udødelig.
Evil Undead Spirit: ?
Sentient Undead: ?
Death-Knight: ?
Lacedon: ?
Lich: The process to becoming a lich is both difficult and profoundly arcane.
Lawful Good High Elven Lich: ?
Tarankeerath, Lich, Robed Emaciated Creature: ?
Puolihaamu, Demilich: ?
Lich, Free-Willed Undead: ?
Sealich: ?
Demi-Lich, Demilich: ?
Udodelig, The First Lich: ?
Mummy, Free-Willed Undead: ?
Nightwalker: ?

Create Specter. The wraith targets a humanoid within 10 feet of it that has been dead for no longer than 1 minute and died violently. The target’s spirit rises as a specter in the space of its corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. The specter is under the wraith’s control. The wraith can have no more than seven specters under its control at one time.

Create Specter. The wraith [lord] targets a humanoid within 20 feet of it that has been dead for no longer than 1 minute and died violently. The target’s spirit rises as a specter in the space of its corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. The specter is under the wraith’s control. The wraith can have no more than 10 specters under its control at one time.

Soul Searing (Recharge 6). The vidre unleashes a searing beam of radiant energy at a creature within 60 feet. The target takes 24 (3d12 + 5) radiant damage and must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, the target is knocked prone and pushed back 20 feet, leaving behind a soul shard that is under the vidre’s control.

Robe of Bones
Wondrous item, rare
(requires attunement)
This robe is adorned with embroidery that resembles various undead creatures. Once per day the user can grasp a bit of embroidery to bring forth undead that appear within 30 feet of the user. The user spend an action to create one of the following:
◊ 2d4 skeletons
◊ 1d8 zombies
◊ a flaming skull
◊ a ghoul

 

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S&S: The Eternia Archive
5e
Irradiated Specter: ?

 

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Mists of Akuma: A Village Corrupted (Quickstart Adventure)
5e
Adeddo-Saionji: The PCs have to fight the corrupted nobleman twice—when he’s reduced to 10 hit points or less, he drinks some shibito wine from a flask on his belt and rapidly transforms into an adeddo-oni in a gruesome scene that may well turn the adventurers’ stomachs.
Adeddo-Villager: Should he poison the settlement’s populace with shibito wine a second time, the end of the festival is punctuated by a surge of suddenly transformed adeddo-oni (specifically adeddo-villagers) wrecking Hason-Shita from within, forcing the party to oversee a mass evacuation, killing as many as possible before they too are forced to flee for their lives.
Adeddo-Oni: The Mists of Akuma change people, transforming them into abominations with malevolent dead hearts that beat with a thirst for blood.
Giants, monstrosities, and any creature type other than beast or undead can become adeddo-oni. An adeddo-oni keeps its statistics, except as follows.
Misted condition level 8.
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling: ?
Adeddo-Oni Ninja: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage: ?
Necroji: ?
Kanden, Necroji Rogue 3, Necroji, Last Shinobi of the Jitsuri-Teki, Ninja, Cunning Necroji Ninja, Undead Shinobi, Skeleton Laced With Strange Technology, Technological Abomination, Mechanized Undead, Powerful Invasive Tool, Undead Abomination, Survivor, Necroji Ninja, Loner, Undead Shinobi: ?
Undead: ?
Cackling Creature: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Ravenous Undead, Abomination With a Malevolent Dead Heart That Beats With a Thirst for Blood: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Zombie Samurai: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Lackey: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage, Lackey: ?
Vicious Adeddo-Oni: As a recent design it cost the warrior no small amount of coin and he treated it with great care before being killed by a ship of pirates that fell afoul of the Mists of Akuma, now vicious adeddo-oni that slaughtered every sailor they encountered (although Saza had the last laugh, igniting both vessels before his dying breath to doom everyone in the conflict).
Massive Bakekujira, Whale: ?
Ancestral Ghost, Vengeful Ghost, Spirit, Ancestral Poltergeist: ?
Ancestral Ghost, Vengeful Ghost, Spirit, Ancestral Poltergeist, Spirit of a Soldier: ?
Ancestral Ghost, Vengeful Ghost, Spirit, Ancestral Poltergeist, Poltergeist of a Slain Ninja: ?
Simona, Necroji Black Market Trader: ?
Angry Ghost: ?

New Condition: Misted
Misted is measured in eight levels. An effect can give a creature one or more levels of misted, as specified in the effect’s description. Creatures always have a minimum number of levels of misted condition equal to their Haitoku modifier. Kami, oni, and tsukumogami are immune to the misted condition.
Table: Misted Effects
Level Effect
1 Mild auditory effect
2 Mild visual effect
3 Speed +10 feet during combat; Disadvantage on Dignity ability checks
4 Severe auditory effect
5 Severe visual effect
6 Visible physical mutation, +1 to two ability scores, –1 to one ability score; Disadvantage on Dignity saving throws and you gain the hated condition
7 Ignore the first 3 points of damage from each attack or spell
8 Death and transformation into adeddo-oni
These effects are not constant, but they are frequent and obvious when they occur.
Your effects should be unique to your character, but here are some examples:
Mild Auditory Effect. A disembodied voice repeats everything you say in a barely audible whisper.
Mild Visual Effect. Your hands and feet smolder with red energy during your katas, in battle or out.
Severe Auditory Effect. Whenever you draw your weapon a clap of thunder echoes around you.
Severe Visual Effect. Whenever your ire is raised even slightly your image stretches and distorts to make you appear larger and more demonic than you are.

 

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Mists of Akuma: Fangs of Revenge
5e
Adeddo-Oni: The Mists of Akuma change people, transforming them into abominations with malevolent dead hearts that beat with a thirst for blood.
Giants, monstrosities, and any creature type other than beast or undead can become adeddo-oni.
Misted condition level 8.
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling: ?
Adeddo-Oni Ninja: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Abomination With a Malevolent Dead Heart That Beats With a Thirst for Blood: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Lackey: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage, Lackey: ?

New Condition: Misted
Misted is measured in eight levels. An effect can give a creature one or more levels of misted, as specified in the effect’s description. Creatures always have a minimum number of levels of misted condition equal to their Haitoku modifier. Kami, oni, and tsukumogami are immune to the misted condition.
Table: Misted Effects
Level Effect
1 Mild auditory effect
2 Mild visual effect
3 Speed +10 feet during combat; Disadvantage on Dignity ability checks
4 Severe auditory effect
5 Severe visual effect
6 Visible physical mutation, providing +1 to two attributes, –1 to one attribute; Disadvantage on Dignity saving throws and you gain the hated condition
7 Ignore the first 3 points of damage from each attack or spell
8 Death and transformation into adeddo-oni
Auditory and visual effects are not perpetual but they are frequent and obvious when they occur. Some example effects are:
Mild Auditory Effect. A disembodied voice repeats everything you say in a barely audible whisper.
Mild Visual Effect. Your fists and feet smolder with red energy during your katas, in battle or out.
Severe Auditory Effect. Whenever you draw your weapon a clap of thunder echoes around you.
Severe Visual Effect. Whenever your ire is raised (even slightly), your image stretches and distorts to make you appear look much larger and more demonic than you are.

 

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Mists of Akuma: Honorable Wills
5e
Harionago, Harianago: ?
Umibozu: When a great collection of holy folk or umibo die at sea the souls can become lost within the abyss, drifting aimlessly in the alien depths rather than moving on into the afterlife. The lost spirits transform into an umibōzu, a blue-black mass with lidless staring eyes and a wide (even jovial) grin. They retain the psionic sensitivity of their mortal forms but lose their individuality down there in the void.
Adeddo-Oni: The Mists of Akuma change people, transforming them into abominations with malevolent dead hearts that beat with a thirst for blood.
Giants, monstrosities, and any creature type other than beast or undead can become adeddo-oni.
Misted condition level 8.
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling ?
Adeddo-Oni Ninja: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samuari: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage: ?
Fushin, The Dragon's Maiden, Harianago, Beautiful Maiden: In reality, the maiden is a harianago—two centuries ago a young adulterous woman named Fushin was drowned in the spring by her jealous husband while the other patrons watched and did nothing. Now she haunts the place, luring those foolish enough to follow her (especially married men) into a secluded part of the spring to mercilessly slay them, hiding the bones within an underwater cave.
Umibozu, Blue-Black Mass With Lidless Staring Eyes and a Wide Grin: ?
The Pet, Umibozu, Horrifying Umibozu, Fearsome Normally Rare Umibozu, Psionically-Attuned Sea Monster, Beast, Instrument of Death, Murderous Pet, Looming Black Shape: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Abomination With a Malevolent Dead Heart That Beats With a Thirst for Blood: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Lackey: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage, Lackey: ?
The Smirk, Ghost: ?

New Condition: Misted
Misted is measured in eight levels. An effect can give a creature one or more levels of misted, as specified in the effect’s description. Creatures always have a minimum number of levels of misted condition equal to their Haitoku modifier. Kami, oni, and tsukumogami are immune to the misted condition.
Table: Misted Effects
Level Effect
1 Mild auditory effect
2 Mild visual effect
3 Speed +10 feet during combat; Disadvantage on Dignity ability checks
4 Severe auditory effect
5 Severe visual effect
6 Visible physical mutation, providing +1 to two ability scores, –1 to one ability score; Disadvantage on Dignity saving throws and you gain the hated condition
7 Ignore the first 3 points of damage from each attack or spell
8 Death and transformation into adeddo-oni
Auditory and visual effects are not perpetual but they are frequent and obvious when they occur. Some example effects are:
Mild Auditory Effect. A disembodied voice repeats everything you say in a barely audible whisper.
Mild Visual Effect. Your hands and feet smolder with red energy during your katas, in battle or out.
Severe Auditory Effect. Whenever you draw your weapon a clap of thunder echoes around you.
Severe Visual Effect. Whenever your ire is raised (even slightly), your image stretches and distorts to make you appear look much larger and more demonic than you are.

 

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Mists of Akuma: Revenge of the Pale Master
5e
Adeddo-Oni: The Mists of Akuma change people, transforming them into abominations with malevolent dead hearts that beat with a thirst for blood.
Giants, monstrosities, and any creature type other than beast or undead can become adeddo-oni.
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling: ?
Adeddo-Oni Ninja: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage: ?
Gaki: Greedy and avaricious souls that fail to find peace in the afterlife never truly leave Soburin, their spirits instead transforming into insatiable oni.
Harionago: When an innocent young lover is tragically murdered—especially by their beloved—the harionago is the horrific result. Twisted by the injustice of their death these oni wander the countryside looking for revenge, driven by a rage so strong that even if destroyed they can rise again, never to rest until their murderer is dead.
Onryo: When a person dies feeling wronged—such as from a spouse’s infidelity or the disinheritance of a relative—their bodies may rise up to correct the injustice done to them.
Greater Onryo: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Minion: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Abomination With a Malevolent Dead Heart That Beats With a Thirst for Blood: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Lackey: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage, Lackey: ?
Gaki, Insatiable Oni, Most Common Types of Monster to Prey on the Prefecture: ?
Gaki, Cunning Predator: ?
Harionago, Horrific Result, Oni: ?
Onryo, Persistent Hunter: ?
Greater Onryo, Variant Onryo, Onryo With the Capacity for Causing Natural Disasters, Stronger Onryo, Being Capable of Great Disasters: ?
Gashadokuro, Massive Skeleton, Larger Ally: ?
Undead: Seiya’s remains are kept at the Graveyard of the Damned, a remote cemetery where the cremated corpses of murderers, madmen, and others believed to be at higher risk of rising as undead are kept—if Fujioka has returned from the dead, the priest would almost certainly know.
Shinzo the Eater, Ghost, Ghost of a Cannibalistic Murderer, Hungry Ghost, Most Vicious Inhabitant, Serial Killer, Fragment, Spirit, Spectral Form of an Older Man: Unfortunately one of the cemetery’s most vicious inhabitants, a serial killer named Shinzo the Eater that was recently interred after being killed by the watch, has burst forth from the grave. A tragic victim of a conflict of which he was an unwilling participant and fated by his name to a dreadful end, as a child Shinzo found himself the only survivor of a Hakaisuru raid on the small town where his family ran a traveller’s inn. When the attack occurred they took shelter in the cellar where a stray cannonball collapsed the building atop them, killing everyone except for Shinzo and trapping him in the rubble with only the corpse of his sister Haruka for company. Days passed and his mind broke—drawing the attentions of the Pale Master. Having been named after his ancestor (Shinzo Kitamura, founder of the Crimson Vigil), the necromancer saw an opportunity to forever dishonor the name and touched the already shattered youth’s psyche. Driven by hunger and corrupted by the ancient evil, Shinzo resorted to eating her corpse, trapped in the dark and sobbing even as he forced her flesh down his throat.
Days later he was rescued and eventually placed in an orphanage but he never truly escaped those terrible days in the dark; constantly tormented by dreams of fire, darkness, and the terrible taste of flesh. When he finally came of age and was released he found work in another inn before eventually succumbing to the terrible hunger that had been born within him. By the time he was caught Shinzo had murdered and devoured nine young women, each of them resembling his sister. His torments in the hells below have distilled his madness and hunger—separating it from the broken child that first spawned it and giving it a life of its own—and the preparations for the Pale Master’s ritual have provided that fragment with the means to drag itself back into the world of the living.
Ghost: ?
Ichizo Ando, The Pale Master, Malevolent Specter, Foul Undead Mage, Disembodied Specter, Necromancer, Ancient Evil, Ancient Necromancer, Specter, Foul Spirit, Even Greater Power: Ichizo Ando—vicious and cruel, both feared and hated by samurai and commoner alike—ruled Kizaki and the surrounding lands for decades before being slain. He murdered his family in order to obtain power, was known to eat the flesh of captured enemies, and flayed any servants or subordinates that displeased him. These stories and others (detailing all manner of macabre practices) were whispered among his subjects and beyond but despite the horrible nature of the tales they paled in comparison to the truth. Trained by a demonologist that spread his practices under the guise of an itinerant teacher, Ichizo developed an insatiable lust for power that sped him along the descent into darkness. As he aged and his mastery grew he began to lust after immortality, delving into necromancy, and from the Crimson Keep he sought out forbidden secrets and cast fel rituals that demanded blood sacrifice on an appalling scale. Ichizo’s evil and gradual necromantic transformation eventually garnered him the moniker “the Pale Master” by his remaining subordinates, a name spoken with utter dread.
Eventually knowledge of Ichizo’s blasphemous quest for immortality made its way to the ears of those capable of challenging him and a trio of famous adventurers were sought out in secret by a young nobleman named Shinzo Kitamura to free his land from the Pale Master’s monstrous rule. These three—a potent yamabushi named Maru Okita, the famous samurai duelist Ukiyo Machi, and a mage of great skill named Takanibu Imai—made their way to the Crimson Keep with Shinzo and attacked Ichizo while he was performing a great magical rite. They killed him but not before he transformed into a disembodied specter, twisted by the disrupted energies, and in an attempt to constrain his evil Maru invoked a great sutra that required the blood of all three heroes, anchoring the Pale Master’s soul to the seat of his rule before it could drift free and leaving him nearly powerless.
Specter: ?
Kiyoshi Muraoka, Vampire, Servant, Agent, True Master of Kizaki, Bengoshi, Slightly Older Lithe Man, Vicious Inhuman Predator, Villain, True Threat, Immortal Blood Drinking Monster, Evil Agent, Torturous Servant, Inhuman Monster That Seems to Be Immortal and Averse to the Light of Day, Nobleman, Dangerous Adversary: ?
Vampire Spawn, Sister, Sibling: ?
Vampire Spawn, Wife: ?
Vampire Spawn, Trusted Servant, Servant: ?

 

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Mists of Akuma: Seven Grains of Rice
5e
Adeddo-Oni: The Mists of Akuma change people, transforming them into abominations with malevolent dead hearts that beat with a thirst for blood.
Giants, monstrosities, and any creature type other than beast or undead can become adeddo-oni.
Misted condition level 8.
Adeddo-Oni Hunchling: ?
Adeddo-Oni Ninja: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage: ?
Adeddo-Oni, Ravenous Undead, Abomination With a Malevolent Dead Heart That Beats With a Thirst for Blood: ?
Adeddo-Oni Samurai, Lackey: ?
Adeddo-Oni Mage, Lackey: ?
Bake-Kujira: ?
Gaki: ?
Onryo: ?
Greater Onryo: ?
Undead: ?
Ghost: ?
Ghoul: ?
Skeletal Archer: ?
Wight: ?
Will-o'-Wisp: ?

New Condition: Misted
Misted is measured in eight levels. An effect can give a creature one or more levels of misted, as specified in the effect’s description. Creatures always have a minimum number of levels of misted condition equal to their Haitoku modifier. Kami, oni, and tsukumogami are immune to the misted condition.
Table: Misted Effects
Level Effect
1 Mild auditory effect
2 Mild visual effect
3 Speed +10 feet during combat; Disadvantage on Dignity ability checks
4 Severe auditory effect
5 Severe visual effect
6 Visible physical mutation, +1 to two ability scores, –1 to one ability score; Disadvantage on Dignity saving throws and you gain the hated condition
7 Ignore the first 3 points of damage from each attack or spell
8 Death and transformation into adeddo-oni
These effects are not constant, but they are frequent and obvious when they occur. Your effects should be unique to your character, but here are some examples:
Mild Auditory Effect. A disembodied voice repeats everything you say in a barely audible whisper.
Mild Visual Effect. Your hands and feet smolder with red energy during your katas, in battle or out.
Severe Auditory Effect. Whenever you draw your weapon a clap of thunder echoes around you.
Severe Visual Effect. Whenever your ire is raised even slightly your image stretches and distorts to make you appear larger and more demonic than you are.

 

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Tavern Tales Vol. 1: A Trip Away Inn
5e
Source Skeleton: The Source Skeleton is imbued with arcane energy by the Ribbon Spirits and therefore immune to all non-magical sources of damage.
Undead Minion: ?
Fungal Growth Skeleton Swarm, Fungal Growth Skeleton Mob: ?
Swarm Skeleton: ?
Undead: ?
Undead Worker: ?
Armored Source Skeleton: ?
Tosscobble, Swarm Skeleton: ?
Dowager Armara Ardelean, Lady Ardelean, Human Ghost, Terrifying Spirit, Angry Ghost: When the dowager died they planned their escape, but the mother’s jealousy and bitterness proved more powerful than the grave.
At the core of her evil is an unresolved loneliness, an anger at being abandoned by her husband when he died. She was alone and miserable, and her daughter's happiness and prospects for a wonderful future were too much to bear.
Also on the desk is a journal, in which the Dowager Ardelean chronicled her increasing loneliness and resentment. Smashed on the floor is the missing portrait of Lady Ileana and Sir Blake.
Guardian Spirit, Ghost Friend: ?
Ghost: Aeverys's Draining Touch legendary action.
Eddawyn Therafyl, Ghost, Muse, Ghostwriter: Eddawyn explains to the party that she was murdered several years ago. A halfling thief, wearing a cloak and a scarf over her face, broke into her house to steal her most prized possession: a book that she had been working on for the entirety of a decade, entitled Sword’s Edge: Lesser Known Histories, Mysteries, and Witcheries of Melterra. The thief was startled to see Eddawyn home, and more surprised when Eddawyn took the opportunity to cast burning hands at the intruder. Unfortunately, the thief was too quick, dodged out of the way of the spell, and slipped a dagger through Eddawyn’s rib cage. The next thing that Eddawyn knew, she was hovering over her own body, lying in a pool of blood, and her book was missing. Her ghost has been bound to the interior of the house ever since.
Drow Ghost: ?
Drow Ghost, Undead Drow: ?
Minstra, Drow Ghost: ?
Shadow: ?
Skeleton: ?
Armored Skeleton: ?
Will-o'-Wisp, Will o' Wisp: ?
Will-o'-Wisp, Glowing Orb, Mere Ball of Light: ?

Draining Touch (1 action). Melee Weapon Attack:
+9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 19 (4d6 + 5) necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the creature finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A creature slain by this attack rises 24 hours later as a ghost, unless the creature is restored to life or its body is destroyed.