Undead Origins

Freeport: The City of Adventure
3.0
Fire Spectre, Fire Specter: Fire spectres are undead creatures created when blackhearted villains are burned alive. Their hatred burns so strong that the fires transform them into supernatural terrors.
Fire spectre is a template that can be added to any corporeal giant, humanoid, or monstrous humanoid of evil alignment (hereafter referred to as the “base creature”). The creature must die by fire to be reborn as a fire spectre.
Kothar the Accursed, Fire Spectre Rogue 10: Kothar’s sentence was, as was always the case with pirate justice in those days, death. But it was a very special death that the Sea Lord decreed for Kothar. The pirate captain was securely tied to the mast of the ship he had attacked, and his crew bound and tossed in the hold. The Burning Tide was then piloted a few miles off the coast of the Serpent’s Teeth. There the entire craft was soaked in pitch and set alight. Kothar and his cutthroats were left to burn to death among the timbers of the ship that they had murdered so many to possess.
That should have been the end of Kothar and his crew—but it wasn’t. It was just the beginning. A single month had gone by when a burning ship was spotted on the night horizon off the coast of A’Val.
Ship of the Damned Crewman, Fire Spectre Fighter 2: Kothar’s sentence was, as was always the case with pirate justice in those days, death. But it was a very special death that the Sea Lord decreed for Kothar. The pirate captain was securely tied to the mast of the ship he had attacked, and his crew bound and tossed in the hold. The Burning Tide was then piloted a few miles off the coast of the Serpent’s Teeth. There the entire craft was soaked in pitch and set alight. Kothar and his cutthroats were left to burn to death among the timbers of the ship that they had murdered so many to possess.
That should have been the end of Kothar and his crew—but it wasn’t. It was just the beginning. A single month had gone by when a burning ship was spotted on the night horizon off the coast of A’Val.
Fire Spectre, Supernatural Terror: ?
Undead, Undead Creature: ?
Fiarella Donadrien, Ghost: A consortium of aristocrats built the Freeport Opera House nearly 100 years ago in an effort to bring some semblance of culture to the cesspool known as Freeport. To commemorate the occasion, the Sea Lord at the time commissioned a brand-new opera from one of the greatest composers of that time, an elf by the name of Fiarella Donadrien. This ancient songstress poured so much of her heart and soul into the composition, it’s said, that she actually expired shortly after its first performance.
Ghost: ?
Ghoul: ?
Skeleton: ?
Wealthy Vampire: ?
Vampiric Kraken: ?
Zombie: Dnulper magic item.

Dnulper
This +2 unholy guisarme is said to be the creation of Friar Ingiltere, a mad monk and necromancer of Freeport’s distant past, and named for the villain’s patron, a death slaad of unsurpassed power. The weapon’s shaft is carved from the lightning-struck trunk of a hangman’s tree, and the head is forged from the grave-sword of an ancient chieftain.
Any living, corporeal opponent slain by Dnulper rises on the next round as a zombie under the wielder’s control. These creations remain animated until the next sunrise or sunset, and must remain within 50 feet of their controller or revert to inanimate corpses. There is no limit to the number or total HD of zombies that may be created in this manner.
Caster Level: 10th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, animate dead, unholy blight, creator must be evil; Market Price: 84,809 gp; Cost to Create: 42,405 gp + 3,393 XP.
 

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General Guidelines for D20 Zothique
3.0
Ghorii, Jaghoul: A ghorii shaman invokes hellish powers to create more ghorii from jackal skeletons wrapped in human skin. This cannot be done in battle, and requires several hours of spell casting. Ghorii must be created in multiples of five, and each one requires a complete jackal skeleton and the entire skin plus some blood, brain & bones from a human.
Crawling Members: Crawling members are animated body parts severed into sections large enough to move and inflict damage.
Wraith Desert, Wraith: The desert wraith is a desiccated corpse, animated through a small portion of the malevolent spirit of the skriaxit that killed it.
Ghorii, Jaghoul, Devilish Undead, Gaunt Jackal-Like Form: ?
Crawling Members, Animated Body Parts Severed Into Sections Large Enough to Move and Inflict Damage: ?
Wraith Desert, Desiccated Corpse, Energy Draining Undeadl, Humanoid Form, Form of a Jackal, Shape of a Jacka: ?
Undead, Undead Monster: ?
Animated Dead: ?
Animate Dead: ?
Reanimated Dead, Lich: ?
Vampire-Like Undead: ?
Ghoul: ?
Lich: ?
Wizened Lich: Thasaidon is known and feared throughout Zothique, even where he is not worshiped. The vampires and lamiae pay him homage, and wizened liches drawn upon his power for continued earthly presence beyond the grave.
Vampire, Lamia, Vampiric Lamia, Undead Lamia, Undead Vampire: ?
Vampire, Solitary Former Human That Feasts on Blood: ?
Vampire Spawn, Lamia, Vampire: ?
Wraith: ?
Zombie: Any humanoid slain by crawling members becomes a zombie in 1d4 rounds.
Any humanoid slain by a desert wraiths energy drain attack becomes a zombie within 48 hours, even if raised from the dead, though this can be prevented if the body is washed in holy water.
 

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