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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7331424" data-attributes="member: 2209">Myrkridder – The Demonic dead<a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/152790/Myrkridder--The-Demonic-Dead?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Myrkridder – The Demonic dead</a>Labyrinth LordMyrkridder: Myrkridder are intelligent undead animated through magical means, usually by a necromancer exhuming a corpse or assembling one from other bits of corpses, and either by calling back the spirit that once occupied the corpse or by summoning a different fiendish spirit, devil, or demon to animate the assembled corpse.The vast majority of myrkridder spirits are summoned from Hell or one of the other Underworlds of the Damned. These Evil souls are usually quite happy to be dragged back to the world of the living, even in service as an undead creature enslaved to their creator, as this means they are no longer being tormented, and can often act in the evil and vile ways that they enjoyed in life. Souls condemned to one of the more neutral afterlives could be called back, but would be more free-willed and more likely to resist the control of their maker. Some necromancers, if they trap the soul of a recently deceased Goodly person ere it goes to its rightful reward, can magically force the Good soul into a corpse and compel it to serve them as a myrkridder; these accursed beings live a virtual hell on earth, forced to do the vile bidding of their unnatural master.Most myrkridder are created from humans; a few are created from elves, while dwarf and halfling myrkridder are virtually unknown.Myrkridder Carrion Steed: Hestermorth myrkridder outrider special ability.Once per night a myrkridder outrider has the ability to kill a horse (or horse-like animal that can be used as a mount) with a mere touch; the horse rises again as a carrion steed 1d3 rounds later. Carrion steeds created this way are destroyed with the light of the next sunrise.Myrkridder Champion: Myrkridder champions are myrkridder soldiers and sergeants who have risen through the ranks or were prominent villains in their mortal lives; some were created from the body parts of the most despicable villains and animated by the spirit of a potent devil or demon.Myrkridder Hag: The only common female myrkridder are myrkridder hags, created by necromancers with certain unnatural lusts beyond even those common to their kind. These are usually the animated bodies of once-beautiful women; some were witches or sorceresses in life, returned to serve a new master, others courtesans or noblewomen animated by the spirits of devils or demons.Myrkridder Minstrel: Myrkridder minstrels are special myrkridder, in their former lives bards, skalds, minstrels, troubadours, or other musically-inclined entertainers of little to great talents.Myrkridder Myrkulf: Myrkulfs are a horrible form of undead that combines body parts from humans and dire wolves, infused with the magical essence of werewolves and the blood of trolls.Due to the methods and rituals involved in their creation, myrkulfs can pass on the werewolf lycanthropic disease to those whom they have damage, as per any normal lycanthrope.Myrkridder Outrider: ?Myrkridder Sergeant: In life, myrkridder sergeants were warrior noblemen, robber barons, and other mid-level villains of some talent, wealth, and status.Myrkridder Soldier: They are the animated corpses of common soldiers and rabble, their vile souls summoned back from Hell to do their creator’s bidding.Most are inhabited by the souls of brigands, thieves, ruffians, and ne’er-do-wells, though a few are of more elevated origins, such as noblemen or infamous outlaws, and like to remind their fellow myrkridder and their victims of their high-society or famous status.Purple Svein: PURPLE SVEIN was a poisoner in life; he was slain by application of large quantities of the same poison he used to kill his victims.Finnbogi the Flayed: FINNBOGI THE FLAYED was a cannibal and murder, flayed to death for his crimes.Janglebones: JANGLEBONES had lost most of his flesh before he was animated.Arkyn the Ancient: ARKYN THE ANCIENT died of old age and got away with his terrible crimes unpunished during his lifetime.Garm the Wolf: GARM THE WOLF literally has a wolf’s head; his creator discovered the body of a mighty but headless warrior and his dire wolf companion in a barrow, and decided to have an interesting experiment.Goldbelly: GOLDBELLY was a greedy glutton in life, and was put to death for embezzling from his chieftain.Grimhilda: GRIMHILDA was thought to be a witch, but really she was merely an old gossip who used her knowledge to blackmail her neighbors. They had her condemned as a witch and had her body staked in a bog to keep it from rising as a draugr. Some of the magic of other nearby staked witches passed on to her ere she was brought back as a myrkridder.Crow Killer: CROW KILLER was a wild-man who killed anyone foolish enough to pass through his fells; eventually the local lord and his men caught up with his and hung him for the crows.Pete o' the Bog: PETE O’ THE BOG is a bog myrkridder; in his case he was a cultist of Loki who stole from his priest and ended up being a sacrifice, tied and drowned in a bog.Lovely Varskuld: LOVELY VARSKULD was the concubine of a chieftain who sought to rise higher by killing her master’s wife; she failed, was caught, and was punished by being torn apart by oxen. Her necromancer master re-assembled her, hoping to create a paramour, but her damned soul ripped from Hell was too drear and evil even for him.Garth the Heartless: GARTH THE HEARTLESS was a fallen paladin of Hermod; he was a giant of a man, given to great mirth and kindness, ere he fell to the wiles of an enchantress. He was slain by his paramour’s enemy, the necromancer who now commands him as a myrkridder champion. His master carved out his heart, which still had a glimmer of hope and goodness, and keeps it in a magically locked and trapped box in a hidden crypt. In place of the heart, in the open wound, Garth now carried a jar holding a cackling imp who mocks the former paladin with the recitation of his sins merely for his master’s amusement.Einar the Angry: EINAR THE ANGRY was a member of a band of outlaws; he rarely followed orders, and ended up getting himself and several of his companions killed when he didn’t retreat when he was ordered to do so.Eirik the Odious: EIRIK THE ODIOUS was a most unpleasant man in life; he was an inveterate molester, buggerer, and rapist of anyone and anything he could get his hands on. The law finally caught up with him and he was thoroughly broken on a wheel. His shattered body was mostly re-assembled by his master, though the bits he valued most had been cut away and burnt to ashes by his executioner. He makes for a bitter, angry myrkridder; he walks in a disjointed way, with many a creak and clatter, as his bones never really fused together well with the necromantic ritual.The Spider: THE SPIDER was a strange experiment; his creator thought perhaps he could get more use out of a single myrkridder with a human body, four human legs, four human arms, and the head of a giant spider, and so one was assembled, with a bestial demon summoned to inhabit the corpse.Audolf: AUDOLF was a noble warrior, part of a warband, though he was craven and cowardly fled from a battle that got his chieftain’s son killed. As punishment he was buried alive in a barrow; too cowardly to kill himself, he drank barrow water and ate rats and the rotting flesh of the barrow’s inhabitants until he slowly died from lack of fresh water and real food.Big Bruin: BIG BRUIN was a werebear in life; as a myrkridder he is eternally cursed to be caught in the form of a half-man, half-bear, with blood-matted fur, great fangs, and terrible claw-like hands. He betrayed his clan to his necromancer master for gold and power; he just did not understand what the “power” offered by his new master meant.Jigsaw: JIGSAW is stitched together from dozens of different bodies and is inhabited by a potent demon; he has a few too many fingers, a couple of odd eyeballs in strange places, and a second face in place of his genitals.Wee Jack: WEE JACK was merely a child of 10 years when he was staked; what crimes he committed none know, not even his master, but the terrible smile that crosses his face when he is asked makes even hardened myrkridder shudder in fear.Black Andras: BLACK ANDRAS was a midwife who amused herself by ensuring the stillborn-births of women she disliked. She was drowned in a bog for her crimes.Storr the Mighty: STORR THE MIGHTY was a great outlaw chieftain in life; he now serves his master as a champion.</blockquote>

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