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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7582957" data-attributes="member: 2209">13th Age Glorantha<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/234486/13th-Age-Glorantha?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">13th Age Glorantha</a>13th AgeUndead: Like other people, they’re mainly farmers and hunters, but life in the shadow of the Upland Marsh forces them to confront the undead horrors created by Delecti the Necromancer. If the PCs earn the trust of the ducks, the ducks favor them with a special blessing. It will strengthen them for the coming apocalypse, when the universe turns upside down and the dead attack the living. Most undead are created by ? Chaos, especially by the minions of the gods Thanatar and Vivamort. The only oddity in the rune column is that undead have three different rune possibilities. In Glorantha, undead creatures come in many sorts. Regardless of their source, undead creatures earn the undying enmity of Humakt and his devotees. Trolls, especially trolls connected to Zorak Zoran, create undead associated with o Darkness. These are reanimated, spiritless corpses, not ghouls or vampires. They are neither Chaotic nor, arguably, truly undead. They’re a bit more like constructs, since the soul of the dead creature is not trapped in the skeletal or zombie body. Troll-created undead appear with the o Darkness rune. Finally, the Upland Marsh is haunted by bizarre undead constructs, stitched together and powered by the undying sorcerer Delecti. They are the products of blasphemy, not Chaos. Undead associated with Delecti have the u Unlife/ Undead rune. It’s possible that there might also be Chaotic versions of those undead, but not if they belong to Delecti. Undead generally don’t have homelands. They can be found wherever Chaos violates the boundaries between Life and Death. And in Upland Marsh. Zombie Minion: ?Troll Skeleton: ?Vampire: ?Headless Skeleton: Acolyte of Than Compel the Dead ability.Headless Zombie: Acolyte of Than Compel the Dead ability.Zombie Cultist: By becoming zombies (heads intact), cultists achieve a sort of immortality and glory, or at least the total cessation of pain.Acolyte of Than Compel the Dead ability.Undead Head: Acolyte of Thanatari Create Magic Head ability.Battered Headless Skeleton: Thanatari priests press fallen enemies into unholy service after they’re decapitated. These victims have been in a number of hard battles, and it shows.Headless Archer: Weaker skeletons are given enchanted bows that grant the skeletons skill with it, even without eyes. Headless Warrior: Stronger skeletons are armed for close combat, although sometimes it seems like the enchanted spear is doing the fighting. Temple Guardian: An acolyte continues to protect their temple in this perverted form of “afterlife.”Headless Harrier: Created from the corpses of mighty foes and reanimated in a ghastly ritual, these undead are the scariest headless skeletons that the party has ever seen. So far.Headless Ghost: This powerful spirit is created out of betrayal. The priest who creates the headless ghost does so after decapitating an initiate, so either the initiate was a traitor or they’re the one being betrayed. Zombie Initiate: ?Superior Temple Guardian: Priests live on in this form, retaining little humanity other than bloodthirstiness.Headless Destroyer: ?Great Headless Ghost: A priest or doom master provides the spirit for this cursed guardian, the perpetrator or victim of betrayal. Dark Troll Zombie: Zorak Zoran, the troll war god of Disorder and Death, raises dead trolls as powerful undead warriors. Unlike Chaotic undead, the spirits aren’t trapped in these creatures. The souls have moved on. Vivamort: ?Vampire Spawn: ?Ghost: ?Dark Troll Zombie Crisscrossed with Runes and Magical Symbols: ?Dancer in the Dark, Vampire: ?Zombie Giant: ?Undead Killer Whale: ?Hybrid Zombie: These zombies are creations of Delecti. His sorcery creates abominations without invoking Chaos. Swine Monster: ?Undead Arm: ?Acolyte of Than t? Free-form ability—Compel the dead: With the right rituals and the right sacrifices, the acolyte can turn living people into headless skeletons, headless zombies, and zombie cultists. The rituals are elaborate, often including the sacrifice of animals. The chief sacrifice is always the victim that becomes undead. In practice, this means the acolyte of Than is almost always going to be accompanied by undead minions, unless it’s on a covert mission requiring finesse. In a battle in which an acolyte of Than is accompanied by undead, add another zombie or skeleton to the battle whenever Chaos steals the escalation die. The newly arrived undead could be a straggler, reinforcements, or a revivification of a previously dropped combatant. Acolyte of Thanatari yt? Free-form ability—Create magic heads: Given a severed head, the acolyte can turn it into an undead head that grants certain knowledge to a Thanatari who attunes their spirit to it. The best heads are those harvested when creating headless undead.</blockquote>

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