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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7527400" data-attributes="member: 2209">Blackdirge's Dungeon Denizens<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/59826/Blackdirges-Dungeon-Denizens?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Blackdirge's Dungeon Denizens</a>4eAsh Guardian: An ash guardian is a creature of dust, earth, and ash created when soil is fouled with the remains of innocent victims burned en masse. The angry spirits of the slain infest the earth itself with an unimaginable thirst for revenge, ultimately congealing into a single entity capable only of hate and evil.An ash guardian is a creature filled with dark energy of the Shadowfell. It is a terrible amalgamation of many tortured souls, their deaths combined into a single note of shrieking anger and pain.Bone Swarm: Created from failed necromantic experiments or arising spontaneously from ossuaries and bone yards, bone swarms are writhing masses of bony debris.Bone Swarm Grave Swarm: Grave swarms are the result of terrible amounts of necromantic energy released in an area with many corpses or skeletons, such as a battlefield or graveyard.Deathwarg: They are created by powerful necromancers, and are often used to hunt down and kill the enemies of their masters.Deathwargs are undead wolf-like creatures created via an obscure necromantic ritual. Although mortal warlocks and wizards are capable of creating deathwargs, they usually serve powerful undead spell casters, such as liches and vampires.Deathwarg Wightwarg: ?Deathwarg Lichwarg: ?Flayed Horror: Flayed horrors are undead created by particularly evil and cruel necromancers to serve as guardians or bodyguards. The process of creating a flayed horror requires a living, humanoid victim, who is slowly and torturously flayed alive. The terrible pain and horror suffered by the victim, as well as no small amount of necromantic energy, is combined to provide the spark of undeath necessary to animate the flayed horror.Flayed horrors are created through a horrific necromantic ritual called the flensing. The unfortunate individuals forced to endure this ritual are slowly flayed alive, and just before death, their bodies are infused with necromantic energy. This process creates a skinless, undead abomination, wracked with constant pain, and eager to replace its lost skin with that of humanoid victims.Undead: As often as not, a disaster that creates the living tear or living catastrophe also creates a large number of undead; the only creatures that can truly tolerate the aura of pain and grief generated by the ooze-like horrors.Ghoul: The price for Malotoch’s aid is steep; some whom she saves are allowed to live with merely their souls as payment, while others are transformed into ghouls or rooks as part of the exchange.Shambling Skullpile: A shambling skullpile is an undead monstrosity formed from the many skulls of ritually sacrificed creatures. The horror and torment of these sacrificed victims form a maelstrom of psychic energies, which take a physical form by animating and possessing skulls into a rough humanoid form.Xochatateo: Xochatateo are filthy undead humanoids, created from the sacrificial victims of particularly vile and bloodthirsty cults. Each bears a similar wound upon its chest, where its still beating heart was cut from its body just before the death of its corporal form. For some reason, the xochatateo lives on; a tormented creature cursed to exist between the realms of life and death, constantly seeking the hearts of the living to replace the one that once beat within its chest.It is unclear as to exactly why the xochatateo are created. Some scholars argue that they are created when a sacrifice ritual is conducted incorrectly; others believe that they are created when the subject being sacrificed simply refuses to die. A few cynics even believe that xochatateo are nothing more than a cruel god’s joke. Regardless of the reasons why the undead creature is created, there is no disputing how they come into existence: During a sacrifice ritual, when the still-beating heart is ripped from a humanoid creature’s chest, for some reason that creature does not die. Instead, it is reborn as a cruel, savage creature with a taste for mortal flesh.Greater Xochatateo: ?</blockquote>

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