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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 6556650" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><strong>Warlords of the Accordlands Monsters and Lairs</strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/55629/Warlords-of-the-Accordlands-Monsters-and-Lairs?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Warlords of the Accordlands: Monsters and Lairs:</a></p><p>3.5</p><p><strong>Gravel Spawn:</strong> Gravel spawn are an abomination -- undead gargoyles formed from the hacked bits and pieces of slain gargoyles.</p><p><strong>Gaunt Crypt:</strong> A Crypt gaunt is created through ritual.</p><p><strong>Gaunt Swamp:</strong> Most swamp gaunts were men and women killed deep in the marshes of the Accordlands. Marsh hags are notoriously careless with their refuse, and discard failed experiments into the swamps, where it suffuses the corpses. The potions' magical energy grants the swamp gaunts unholy animation.</p><p><strong>Ghost Bog:</strong> Ghost bogs are the animated corpses of the fallen whose bodies are so saturated with magic that they are reanimated in death.</p><p><strong>Hag Undead:</strong> Certain powerful hags have used their potions to give themselves the immortality of the undead. </p><p><strong>Nekrast:</strong> Occasionally, a necromancer of insufficient power to become a lich spontaneously arises after death as a nekrast. Those with a penchant for fire magic have the best chance at returning as one of these creatures. Rumors say that books of lost lore can guide a necromancer along the path to becoming a nekrast; these have yet to be verified.</p><p><strong>Unclean Spirit:</strong> Unclean spirits are the undead remnants of dead elves, fueled by intense hatred.</p><p><strong>Woundwraith:</strong> Popular belief (to the extent that anyone is willing to think at much length about woundwraiths) holds that they are the restless spirits of those lost to madness.</p><p><strong>Purgatoire:</strong> Those who are bound to serve a king or great lord and who die in some grand quest or fundamental duty may rise as a purgatoire. Bodyguards who fail to protect their charges and questing knights who die in pursuit of their goal are the most common purgatoires.</p><p>"Purgatoire" is a template that can be added to any humanoid or monstrous humanoids creature.</p><p><strong>Severed:</strong> The Severed are undead elves who have willingly given their own lives in order to trade mortality for the everlasting youth of undeath.</p><p>To become Severed undead requires a great sacrifice to one of the Elements, the elven pseudo-gods, with each Element demanding a different type of sacrifice and offering a different form of immortality: Blood (ritual murder of a blood relation, to become a Severed vampire), Bone (24 hour rite in which the would-be Severed's every bone is broken, to become a Severed revenant), Flesh (a simple mass slaughter of a dozen people to become a Severed ghoul), and Spirit (ritually removing and rebinding the would-be Severed's soul to his own body, to become a Severed wraith).</p><p>"Severed" is a template that can be added to any elven or half-elven creature.</p><p></p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 6556650, member: 2209"] [b]Warlords of the Accordlands Monsters and Lairs[/b] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/55629/Warlords-of-the-Accordlands-Monsters-and-Lairs?affiliate_id=17596]Warlords of the Accordlands: Monsters and Lairs:[/URL] 3.5 [b]Gravel Spawn:[/b] Gravel spawn are an abomination -- undead gargoyles formed from the hacked bits and pieces of slain gargoyles. [b]Gaunt Crypt:[/b] A Crypt gaunt is created through ritual. [b]Gaunt Swamp:[/b] Most swamp gaunts were men and women killed deep in the marshes of the Accordlands. Marsh hags are notoriously careless with their refuse, and discard failed experiments into the swamps, where it suffuses the corpses. The potions' magical energy grants the swamp gaunts unholy animation. [b]Ghost Bog:[/b] Ghost bogs are the animated corpses of the fallen whose bodies are so saturated with magic that they are reanimated in death. [b]Hag Undead:[/b] Certain powerful hags have used their potions to give themselves the immortality of the undead. [b]Nekrast:[/b] Occasionally, a necromancer of insufficient power to become a lich spontaneously arises after death as a nekrast. Those with a penchant for fire magic have the best chance at returning as one of these creatures. Rumors say that books of lost lore can guide a necromancer along the path to becoming a nekrast; these have yet to be verified. [b]Unclean Spirit:[/b] Unclean spirits are the undead remnants of dead elves, fueled by intense hatred. [b]Woundwraith:[/b] Popular belief (to the extent that anyone is willing to think at much length about woundwraiths) holds that they are the restless spirits of those lost to madness. [b]Purgatoire:[/b] Those who are bound to serve a king or great lord and who die in some grand quest or fundamental duty may rise as a purgatoire. Bodyguards who fail to protect their charges and questing knights who die in pursuit of their goal are the most common purgatoires. "Purgatoire" is a template that can be added to any humanoid or monstrous humanoids creature. [b]Severed:[/b] The Severed are undead elves who have willingly given their own lives in order to trade mortality for the everlasting youth of undeath. To become Severed undead requires a great sacrifice to one of the Elements, the elven pseudo-gods, with each Element demanding a different type of sacrifice and offering a different form of immortality: Blood (ritual murder of a blood relation, to become a Severed vampire), Bone (24 hour rite in which the would-be Severed's every bone is broken, to become a Severed revenant), Flesh (a simple mass slaughter of a dozen people to become a Severed ghoul), and Spirit (ritually removing and rebinding the would-be Severed's soul to his own body, to become a Severed wraith). "Severed" is a template that can be added to any elven or half-elven creature. [b]Lich:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Zombie:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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