Undead Origins

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The Doomgrinder (2e)
2e
Undead, Undead Individual, Undead Creature: ?
Powerful Undead Being: ?
Undead Dragon: Finally, perhaps a more obscure evil mastermind was behind the theft; perhaps the mysterious dracolich Dragotha has stolen the magical treasures, and intends to use them to power a wave of necromantic magic that will animate hundreds of forgotten dragon carcasses across the Flanaess. Under Dragotha's aegis, the undead dragons will wreak terrible vengeance on the living.
Maybe Lyzandred is the one trying to raise dragon carcasses across Oerik and Dragotha is trying to stop this heinous act.
Dragotha, Mysterious Dracolich: ?
Banshee: The banshee is the spirit of an elf woman who was captured by the derro and slowly tortured to death after she was forced to watch her beloved husband die.
Banshee, Spirit of an Elf Woman: ?
Ghoul, Ravenous Creature: ?
Lich, Powerful Undead Being: ?
Lyzandred the Mad, Lich, Powerful Individual, Powerful Lich Diviner, Mage, Mad Lich, Surface Dweller, Lich Mage, Odd Wizard: ?
Mummy: ?
Slow Shadow: ?
Skeleton: ?
Derro Skeleton: The skeletons and zombies are derro bodies. While the living derro have not discovered Lyzandred's tunnel to their underground settlements, it passes through a forgotten derro burial cave where on slow days the lich animated the dead dwarves.
Vampire: ?
Willow, Vampire Druid, Vampire, Charge: A few months ago a trio of wandering druids were turned into undead by a vampire. The youngest of the three, a woman named Willow, was corrupted first, and she killed the others before they realized what she had become.
Dannen, Vampire Druid, Vampire, Thrall, Elder Druid: A few months ago a trio of wandering druids were turned into undead by a vampire. The youngest of the three, a woman named Willow, was corrupted first, and she killed the others before they realized what she had become.
Nannen, Vampire Druid, Vampire, Thrall, Charge: A few months ago a trio of wandering druids were turned into undead by a vampire. The youngest of the three, a woman named Willow, was corrupted first, and she killed the others before they realized what she had become.
Wight, Full Wight: Characters killed by the wight's energy-draining power rise again under Its direct control with the powers and abilities of wights, but with half their experience levels, class abilities and Hit Dice; if the first wight is killed, controlled wights are instantly freed of its control, lose their remaining "living" characteristics, and become full wights.
Derro Zombie: The skeletons and zombies are derro bodies. While the living derro have not discovered Lyzandred's tunnel to their underground settlements, it passes through a forgotten derro burial cave where on slow days the lich animated the dead dwarves.

 

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The Eternal Boundary (2e)
2e
Undead: ?
Freewilled Undead: ?
Horrible Undead: ?
Ghast: ?
Ghoul: ?
Skall, Lich Wizard 19, Powerful Lich: ?
Mummy: ?
Skeleton: ?
Monster Skeleton: ?
Giant Skeleton, More Powerful Creature: ?
Skeleton, Laborer: ?
Armored Skeleton: ?
Hill Giant Skeleton, Huge Skeleton: ?
Skeleton Warrior: ?
Skeleton, Guard: ?
Spectre, Restless Spirit of the Dead: ?
Wight, Freewilled Undead: ?
Wraith, Freewilled Undead: ?
Zombie: ?
Monster Zombie, More Powerful Creature: ?
Zombie, Laborer: ?
Juju Zombie: ?

 

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The Factol's Manifesto (2e)
2e
Undead: ?
Walking Dead: ?
Free-Willed Undead: Another corner of the dark concerns Factol Skall. 'Course, Initiates already know he can raise corpses as zombies and skeletons with just a touch. But, he also can create free-willed undead, like wights, through a ceremony only he knows.
Lesser Undead: ?
Undead Guardian: ?
Lesser Free-Willed Undead: ?
Ghost: ?
Ghast, Lesser Free-Willed Undead: ?
Lich: ?
Factol Skall, Lich Wizard 19, Lich of Advanced Years, Being Virtually Without Emotion: ?
Skeleton: He [Factol Skall] animates dead simply by touching a corpse, causing it to rise as a zombie or skeleton.
Another corner of the dark concerns Facto! Skall. 'Course, Initiates already know he can raise corpses as zombies and skeletons with just a touch.
Skeleton, Lesser Undead, Laborer: ?
Spectre: ?
Vampire: ?
Wight, Free-Willed Undead, Lesser Free-Willed Undead: ?
Wight: Another corner of the dark concerns Factol Skall. 'Course, Initiates already know he can raise corpses as zombies and skeletons with just a touch. But, he also can create free-willed undead, like wights, through a ceremony only he knows.
Wraith, Free-Willed Undead, Lesser Free-Willed Undead: ?
Zombie: He [Factol Skall] animates dead simply by touching a corpse, causing it to rise as a zombie or skeleton.
Another corner of the dark concerns Facto! Skall. 'Course, Initiates already know he can raise corpses as zombies and skeletons with just a touch.
Zombie, Lesser Undead, Laborer: ?
Ju-Ju Zombie: ?
Ju-Ju Zombie Guard: ?

 

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The Gates of Firestorm Peak (2e)
2e
Undead, Undead Creature: ?
Unquiet Spirit: ?
Undead Spirit: ?
Crypt Thing: This undead has been created by Grymange, the Duergar high priest of old, and is commanded to attack any living creature which passes its post; from its concealed location, it has a clear view of the corridor.
This crypt thing was created by Grymange (Naentoth's predecessor) to assist in temple services, guard the temple against unlawful intrusion, and to keep the place clean (a stone cabinet behind the stool holds buckets, mops, and sponges).
Crypt Thing, Crypt Thing Servant, Temple Crypt Thing, Temple Custodian: ?
Mummy: ?
Shadow: ?
Shadow of a Tentacled Horror: ?
Giant Skeleton: This chamber is home to undead creatures created by Duergar priestly enchantments in combination with their powers of enlargement. Three giant skeletons (of Duergar warriors slain in combat) lurk in this chamber with orders to kill any who venture within.
Giant Skeleton, Skeleton, Guardian: ?
Wraith, Dangerous Wraith, Wrathful Wraith: ?
Zombie: Nightcaller magic item.

Nightcaller
There is also a glass (nephelium) whistle with the name "Nightcaller" inscribed upon it in Duergarish characters. When blown over a grave in darkness or at night, one corpse below animates, as per animate dead, and claws its way to the surface (if interred in soft earth or under loose stones). This zombie serves the whistler faithfully until destroyed or turned. The whistle can be used once per week. Good-aligned characters are risking a change in alignment if they use this item after learning its unholy purpose.

 

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The Great Modron March (2e)
2e
Undead, Undead Creature: ?
Undead Servant, Fiend: ?
Screaming Banshee: ?
Orcus, Primus, Shadowy Figure, Shadow, Shadowy Creature: ?
Cryvistin, Vampire Mage 8, Guardian Vampire, Vampire: For that purpose he used Cryvistin, an adventuring wizard who became a vampire when he fell victim to a curse in Undermountain.
Zombie: ?
Hobgoblin Zombie, Undead Hobgoblin: ?

 

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The Ivory Triangle (2e)
2e
Zombie Salt: The salt zombie is an undead creature born of hate (and possibly a subtle magic of the Great Ivory Plain). Resembling the common zombie, these animated corpses are much more powerful (and even a little more intelligent) than their purely magical brethren. These creatures are formed when a human or demihuman dies of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain.
There appear to be several areas of the Great Ivory Plain where a person who has died of thirst will become a salt zombie. (A person who dies of thirst through hit point loss does not become a salt zombie.) The sheer force of will of an individual refusing to die seems to somehow reanimate their corpse in these peculiar regions. It is unknown what sort of residual magic may linger in these areas to cause such an effect There is a 5% chance that any person dying of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain will reanimate.
Some believe that these creatures wandered here from the ruins of Bodach, while the nomads believe that those who die of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain return as zombies, adding to the undead population of the region.
Zombie Salt, Animated Corpse: ?
Undead, Undead Creature: Nibenay then raised the dead warriors of Gulg and led the undead force against the survivors of the oba's army.
The dead are all placed on slabs within the chambers, which are then sealed and flooded with water. A cleric of earth or water always presides over the internment in order to protect the body from undeath. Naturally, such precautions do not always work, and visitors are advised not to venture into these areas without the aid of clerical magic.
For centuries slaves were buried in shallow graves in fields set aside for that purpose. A cleric was always paid to conduct the ceremony, for a slave is as susceptible to undeath as a free citizen or noble. Recently, the enterprising abbot of the Temple of the Sun has begun to offer a service to collect and cremate dead slaves for a fee that is somewhat less than the cost of burying them in the fields.
Undead Rezhatta Beetle, Undead War Beetle, Horrific Undead War Machine: ?
Undead Watroach, Horrific Undead War Machine: ?
Wheelock, Undead Ghoul of Extraordinary Cunning, Poisoner, Man So Riddled With Poison That He Walked On the Threshold Between Life and Death, Decrepit Creature, Greatest Poisoner, Human Bard 16: ?
Skeleton, Common Skeleton: ?
Skeleton, Unintelligent Undead: ?
Animated Animal Skeleton, Unintelligent Undead: ?
Monster Skeleton: ?
Zombie, Common Zombie: The salt zombie is an undead creature born of hate (and possibly a subtle magic of the Great Ivory Plain). Resembling the common zombie, these animated corpses are much more powerful (and even a little more intelligent) than their purely magical brethren. These creatures are formed when a human or demihuman dies of thirst in the Great Ivory Plain.
Zombie, Unintelligent Undead: ?
Monster Zombie, Unintelligent Undead: ?
B'rohg Zombie, Unintelligent Undead: ?
Giant Zombie, Unintelligent Undead: ?