Undead Origins

Oerth Journal 17
3.5
Skulltwister: The skulltwisters origins date back to many millennia ago when the clerics of the dread god, Tharizdun first came into opposition with the other gods of Oerth. The skulltwister was formed from the dark entropy of the Abyss, the larcenous vileness of the Nine Hells, and the vast emptiness of the Gray Wastes. All these energies were focused by 13 clerics of Tharizdun in a day long ritual. The clerics formed these volatile energies into a solid form on the Plane of Shadow, then gave it sentience by infusing the spirit of a nightshade.
Skulltwister, Champion of the Powers of Darkness, Abyssal Menace, Humanoid-Looking Horror With Great Ragged Wings Viscous Tusks a Bladed Prehensile Tail and Ragged Leathery Flesh That Ebbs With a Shadowy-Essence: ?
Undead: ?
Non-Corporeal Undead: Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league.
Banshee: Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league.
Sword Wraith: Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league.
Vecna, Whispered One, Most Infamous Lich: ?
Ghoul: ?
Nightshade: ?
Shadow: ?
Greater Shadow: ?
Aisula, Vampire Goddess, Vampiric Wife, Wife, Goddess of Death and Rebirth, Euroz Deity, Vampire, Vampire Euroz: While traveling the planes in search of adventure and another lover, Aisula met and seduced a young god, who unknown to her was a vampire deity. He eventually turned upon her and they fought. Who this god was she will not say, but it is rumored to be Kas the Destroyer. Needless to say, Aisula suffered grievous wounds. She barely made it home to Luthic’s doorstep before she succumbed to her wounds and died, only to rise again as a vampire euroz.
Vampire Deity: ?
Kas the Destroyer, Vampire Deity: ?
Wraith: ?
Dread Wraith: ?
 

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Oerth Journal 19
3.5
Undead: ?
Tireless Undead Crewmember: ?
Undead Worker: ?
Undead Servant: ?
Normal Ghast: ?
More Powerful Than Normal Ghast: Two ghasts lurk in the pit; the remnants of Areth-Langa’s last victims. They are more powerful than normal ghasts, as they were created within a desecrate affect.
Abi Dahlzim, Ghost: ?
Desert Ghoul: ?
Ghoul: ?
Human Warrior Skeleton, Skeletal Rower: ?
Troll Skeleton: ?
Wight: ?
Zombie: ?
Shriveled Up Zombie, Dry One: ?
Zombified Humanoid: ?
Human Commoner Zombie: Gravewind keeps a pack of 10 zombies animated from the crews of other ships he has successfully plundered here.
Human Commoner Zombie, Zombie Skirmisher, Zombie Sailor, Zombified Crewmember, Slow Sloppy Worker: ?
 



Oerth Journal 22
3.5
Duke Szeffrin, Undead Animus: ?
Undead: One of the many unmentionable acts inflicted by Duke Szeffrin’s forces involved the priests, who used unholy rites to create various undead of the bodies of those slain in defending the keep.
Tormented Undead: ?
Twisted Form of Undead: The ruins of Chathold are inhabited primarily by magically based and extra-dimensional creatures, most common are twisted forms of undead derived from the original citizens of the city.
Queen Sharafere, Fey Queen of the City of Summer Stars, Ghost, Apparition of a Gray-Elven Woman, Elven Maiden: ?
Ghoul: ?
Lich: ?
Vecna: ?
Nightshade Nightcrawler, Guardian: ?
Kas of Tycheron: ?
Zombie: ?
Hunefer: Though severely drained by their efforts the wizards, unbeknownst to history, did not die. Complex interactions and resonances between the ashen staff, Tovag Baragu, energy from the positive and negative energy planes, as well as divine energy from Dorgha Torgu himself, transformed them into the cursed soulless husks called hunefers.
Ilkben, Hunefer, Cursed Soulless Husk, Undead Demipower, Threat to All Life, Soul Husk, Spellcaster, Husk: Though severely drained by their efforts the wizards, unbeknownst to history, did not die. Complex interactions and resonances between the ashen staff, Tovag Baragu, energy from the positive and negative energy planes, as well as divine energy from Dorgha Torgu himself, transformed them into the cursed soulless husks called hunefers.
Hunefer, Cursed Soulless Husk, Undead Demipower, Threat to All Life, Soul Husk, Spellcaster, Husk: ?
 

Oerth Journal 23
3.5
Advanced Elite Evolved Voidwraith Rogue 6/Assassin 1: The voidwraith was once an assassin sent to murder Afelbain. After he failed to kill Afelbain, the mad assassin died in the Demiplane of Gloomwalk, where he was reborn as a voidwraith.
Undead: ?
Erik Maure, Ghost: The long lost Erik Maure was actually buried alive beneath the castle and his ghost cries out for vengeance.
Aeltoqq, Lich, Twisted Sorcerer, Useful Ally: ?
Dread Wraith: The house is actually the former dwelling of a group of demonic cultists who sought favor with the Demon Prince Demogorgon. When the murders in the tenements occurred this group was to blame, but rather than reward his adherents, Demogorgon cursed them to become dread wraiths and delighted as they fell upon one another as the roof to their dwelling caved in, burying them alive.
 

Oerth Journal 24
3.5
Undead, Undead Creature: ?
Incorporeal Undead: ?
Undead Inhabitant: ?
Undead Follower: ?
Ancient Nightwalker, Advanced Elite Evolved Nightwalker Nightshade: ?
Dagath, Advanced Elite Paragon Quasi-Deity Bodak, Ur-Flan Necromancer: By far the most cruel and sadistic of the three Ur-Flan, Dagath was devastated by the divine backlash and transformed into a paragon bodak.
Bodak: Humanoids that die from [Dagath's death gaze] attack are transformed into bodaks in one day.
Skulking Cyst Spawn Mob, Mob of Small Skulking Cyst Spawn: During the backlash, Kasha-Lom’s mother cyst mutated physically and supernaturally with her body. Her lower extremities melded with the cyst into a giant eggsac, giving her the ability to spawn skulking cysts.
Skulking Cyst Spawn: During the backlash, Kasha-Lom’s mother cyst mutated physically and supernaturally with her body. Her lower extremities melded with the cyst into a giant eggsac, giving her the ability to spawn skulking cysts.
Skulking Cyst Spawn, Pustules of Flesh, Balls of Flesh, Skulking Cyst Offspring ?
Ukriel the Anguished, Abomination Atropal, Charred Embryonic Form of a Human Child – Severely Malformed and Unfinished: While searching for weaknesses to exploit in their foes, the Ur-Flannae uncovered the secret burial site of the Oeridian king Ukriel – a paladin of Heironeous undergoing divine ascension. The three necromancers conspired to thwart this would-be deity by stealing his divine spark. From the island edifice, they conducted a ruinous ritual that siphoned Ukriel’s soul and filtered it through the causeway. However, the fusion of holy power and evil magic created a catastrophic backlash that mutated the Oeridian king into an atropal – a stillborn godling.
Consulting the heavens strongly indicate that a divine alteration had occurred after Ukriel’s death; possibly his apotheosis. But something interrupted this change and Ukriel’s soul was forever trapped behind four impenetrable seals on the Isle of Cursed Souls.
Abomination Atropal, Stillborn Godling: ?
Azkazel, Human Death Knight Fighter 12/Blackguard 9, Hulking Armored Death Knight, Bodyguard: The atropal is accompanied by two death knights, who were Ukriel’s lieutenant knights in their mortal lives. When they died they were entombed with their lord, and were also inadvertently drawn into the divine maelstrom that followed.
Sakyazma, Human Death Knight Fighter 21, Hulking Armored Death Knight, Bodyguard: The atropal is accompanied by two death knights, who were Ukriel’s lieutenant knights in their mortal lives. When they died they were entombed with their lord, and were also inadvertently drawn into the divine maelstrom that followed.
Deathbringer: ?
Advanced Deathshrieker: ?
Banshee: ?
Ghost, Incorporeal Undead: ?
Luz, Lich Human Wizard 5/Cleric 5/True Necromancer 14, Ur-Flan Lich, Wildcard: ?
Shadow: ?
Greater Shadow: ?
Skeletal Servant: ?
Specter: Atropal Negative Energy Aura power.
Specter, Incorporeal Undead: ?
Wraith, Incorporeal Undead: ?
Dread Wraith: ?
Zombie: Kasha Lom's Deathless Master's Touch power.

Negative Energy Aura (Su): All undead in a 30ft. radius (including the atropal) have turn resistance +20 and a negative energy version of fast healing 20. Living creatures in the aura receive 10 negative levels unless they have protection from negative energy or protection from evil. Creatures of 10 hit dice or less perish and rise as specters under the atropal’s command 1 minute later.

Deathless Master’s Touch: A living foe of up to one size category larger than a pale master hit by the pale master’s touch attack must succeed on a Fortitude save or die. A slain creature automatically animates 1 round later as a zombie and is under the pale master’s control as if he had animated it. Undead created using this power do not count against a pale master’s HD total for controlling undead.
 

Oerth Journal 25
3.5
Undead: ?
Wandering Undead: ?
Bodak: ?
Ghost: ?
The Walker, Ghost, Legendary Personage: Rumored to be an aspect of Celestian or Fharlanghn, a being undergoing divine transformation, a disguised fiend, or a ghost forever cursed to stalk the land, his true purpose remains unguessable to all but the most puissant scholars of the ancient and arcane.
Vecna, Lich: ?
Ur-Flan Lich: ?
Greater Shadow: Ilvitreus took two greater shadows and eight shadows created by Cyril, two shadow umber hulks as well as a dozen trolls.
Shadow: Ilvitreus took two greater shadows and eight shadows created by Cyril, two shadow umber hulks as well as a dozen trolls.
Medium Skeleton, Wandering Undead: ?
Swordwraith, Elite Incorporeal Swordwraith: ?
Medium Zombie, Wandering Undead: ?
Particularly Resilient Zombie: ?
Gargantuan Corpse Gatherer: ?
 


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