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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7792094" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpy9tok?Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game-Book-of-the-Damned" target="_blank">Book of the Damned</a>Pathfinder 1eKabriri: It is said that when the first humanoid (an elf, it so happened) to feed upon the flesh of his brother died, he was reborn in the Abyss in the reeking bowels of a vast necropolis that the plane created in his honor. This first ghoul abandoned his previous life and embraced his new undeath, becoming the demon lord Kabriri. Advanced Mohrg: ?Advanced Vampire: Vampirism exalted boon.Zura: Zura rose from the corpse of an Azlanti queen who had succumbed to a lust for eternal life and the flesh of her own kind. Scholars point to Zura’s acts as the start of Azlant’s fall into decadence—and perhaps even one of the catalysts for the Age of Darkness that followed. Even today, thousands of years later, tales of her baths of blood and hideous banquets persist as legends. While many tried to assassinate her, it was her own exuberance for blood that sent her soul spiraling into the Abyss after an accidental suicide tryst with several consorts. Yet such was the weight of her sin that when her soul arrived, she rose immediately as a powerful creature—a succubus vampire who swiftly went on to gain incredible power. Urgathoa: Although it is unclear whether Zura worshiped Urgathoa in life, there exist certain irrefutable connections between the Vampire Queen as a demon lord and Urgathoa, whom many believe to have been the first vampire. Burning Ghost: ?Mummified Demon: ?Fiendish Vampire: ?Rhuithvein, The Blood Emperor, Vampire: ?Undead: Nurgal's torso is deeply tanned and masculine, and he is rarely seen without a heavy mace, the head of which appears to be a miniature sun held in one four-fingered, taloned hand. This mace can deal horrific damage, scorching flesh and drawing moisture from the body so that those slain by the weapon instantly rise as sun-blackened undead slaves of the Shining Scourge. To the priesthood of Orcus, the lich is generally held as the height of power and the most glorious method of transcending life, not only due to the power a lich wields but also due to the simple fact that one must actually work to become a lich. Transforming into a lich requires patience, power, skill, and talent, and worshipers of Orcus often regard those undead spawned merely from being transformed by another undead creature via disease or otherwise as lesser incarnations of the undead state of being. To the worshipers of Orcus, there is no difference between a vampire and a leper. Vampirism is a disease, and like all diseases, it spreads most quickly among the weak—as a result, Orcus cultists maintain that vampires represent the weakest form of undeath. Accidental undeath ranks only slightly higher, but even then the lich who spent the majority of his living existence working toward a singular transformation feels jealousy and frustration over those who become ghosts simply by chance after death. To Orcus cultists, even mindless undead like skeletons and zombies are “purer” forms of undeath than ghosts, ghouls, and vampires, for as mindless as skeletons and zombies are, they exist only as a result of a necromancer’s skill at magic. They are not creations of mere chance or misfortune but calculated additions to the world, and as such their place in the church is much more valued. Fiendish lore holds that Ruzel’s tongue is so sharp he can turn living creatures into undead with a single well-aimed jest. Circiatto is an exceptionally gluttonous and ruthless fiend who consumes all enemies who stand in his way. Worse, the Glutton Slaver then vomits them back up as undead servants. Menxyr can pull forth bones from living creatures, animate the dead to serve his foul lusts, and even climb inside the bodies of the freshly dead to animate them and seduce those who mourn the loss of a loved one. The White Mountain, the highest point in Abaddon, reaches even higher than the peak housing the Cinder Furnace. This massive volcano belches forth neither ash nor lava but a miasma of corrosive, white-hot soul-stuff, spontaneously generated undead, and negative energy. The source of the White Mountain’s fury is unknown, and swirling rumors raise only more questions: they credit a lost artifact, the chamber of a dead or imprisoned harbinger, or another long-abandoned experiment by one of the Four. In reality, the carefully disguised proprietors—Carlissa, Melina, and Veria—are lioness-headed rakshasas who siphon a bit of life force from each customer who spends time at the Pillow. The sisters keep this life force in the form of stolen and bottled memories, which they store in magnificent amulets around their necks. Soon, after spending lifetimes collecting their unsettling bounty, the sisters plan to shatter their amulets, which will transform all of their living victims into undead scourges and turn those who’ve died into incorporeal undead poised to tear the city apart from within. Nabasu demons (also known as death demons or glutton demons) are dangerous for a spellcaster to conjure, though they are desirable as mighty combatants with strong battle and infiltration skills. They can become more powerful during their service, as well as recruit and create their own armies of undead slaves, so a spellcaster can quickly get in over his head should the nabasu manage to use its newfound power or minions to circumvent the strictures of its servitude. Ghoul: It is said that when the first humanoid (an elf, it so happened) to feed upon the flesh of his brother died, he was reborn in the Abyss in the reeking bowels of a vast necropolis that the plane created in his honor. This first ghoul abandoned his previous life and embraced his new undeath, becoming the demon lord Kabriri. For his first few centuries of existence, he traveled among the worlds of the Material Plane, sampling like a gourmand the contents of graveyards and spreading the infectious “word” of his condition to any who would listen—in effect, infecting the inhabitants of innumerable worlds with the first and strongest strain of ghoul fever. Yet wherever Kabriri traveled, he took pains to avoid the burial grounds of elves, and did not spread his word among their kind. Whether his restraint was due to a fragment of shame over his first act of cannibalism or fear of confronting even a tiny fragment of the life he’d left behind, Kabriri left the elven people alone. Repercussions of his avoidance continue to this very day, as the touch of ghouls cannot paralyze elves. In contrast, other humanoids who succumb to the disease find their ears growing long and pointed, as if in some cosmic mockery of the elven form. His favored weapon is a two-headed flail of iron and bone, its twin heads made from skulls wrapped in strips of spiked iron. This weapon is capable of transforming those it strikes into ghouls, and causes the flesh of the living to rot away. Kabriri’s breath can also transform the living into ghouls, and his gaze can instill an unholy cannibalistic hunger that can drive sane folk to go on murderous, gluttonous rampages. Ghoulish Apotheosis exalted boon.Death-stealing Gaze exalted boon.Ghast: Undertaker sentinel boon.Lacedon: ?Leng Ghoul: According to Kabriri’s religious teachings, the Leng ghouls came to be when he spread ghoul fever among that realm’s slumbering men and women, but they turned their backs on their creator and became pariahs. The Leng ghouls dispute this claim, citing compelling evidence that their kind has dwelt in Leng far longer than Kabriri himself has been in existence. Lich: To the priesthood of Orcus, the lich is generally held as the height of power and the most glorious method of transcending life, not only due to the power a lich wields but also due to the simple fact that one must actually work to become a lich. Transforming into a lich requires patience, power, skill, and talent, and worshipers of Orcus often regard those undead spawned merely from being transformed by another undead creature via disease or otherwise as lesser incarnations of the undead state of being. Among humanity, Yhidothrus’s cultists are typically loners obsessed with the encroaching threat of old age; desperate to avoid their fate, these few turn to blasphemy and demon worship as a means of escape. Many become liches as a result of their obsession—a Yhidothrin lich typically appears worm-eaten and moist compared to the typical specimen of that kind of undead.Mummy: ?Vampire: Vampirism exalted boon.Juju Zombie: Invoke Death exalted boon.Nightwing: ?Devourer: ?Ghost: Elder's Grace exalted boon.Skeleton: To Orcus cultists, even mindless undead like skeletons and zombies are “purer” forms of undeath than ghosts, ghouls, and vampires, for as mindless as skeletons and zombies are, they exist only as a result of a necromancer’s skill at magic. Zombie: To Orcus cultists, even mindless undead like skeletons and zombies are “purer” forms of undeath than ghosts, ghouls, and vampires, for as mindless as skeletons and zombies are, they exist only as a result of a necromancer’s skill at magic. Ghoulish Apotheosis (Ex) For you, death is not an ending but a beginning. The next time you die, you rise as a ghoul after 24 hours. Your type changes to undead and you lose all the abilities of your previous race, replacing them with a +2 natural armor bonus, darkvision 60 feet, channel resistance +2, and a ghoul’s physical attacks. You do not change your total Hit Dice or alter your ability scores. If you achieve this boon when you’re already an undead creature, you instead gain a +4 profane bonus to your Charisma score. Undertaker (Sp) With nothing but your will alone, you can slaughter and entomb your foes in one fell swoop. Once per day, you can cast finger of death as a spell-like ability. Any creature killed by this effect is immediately entombed 6 feet underground within a 6-inch-thick stone sarcophagus, along with its gear. One week after interment, a creature entombed by this ability breaks free from its sarcophagus as a chaotic evil ghast with all class levels it had in life; these ghasts are not under your control, but are often friendly toward you. Elder’s Grace (Ex) You immediately age to the next age category, gaining all of the appropriate bonuses to your mental ability scores without taking any penalties to your physical ability scores. If you are venerable when you achieve this boon, you die and become a ghost. Any illusion effect you create gains a +2 profane bonus to the save DC. This transformation into a ghost persists even if you fail to perform your obedience. Invoke Death (Sp) Once per day, you can cast slay living as a spell-like ability. A creature slain by this spell immediately rises from death as a juju zombieB2. The juju zombie is not under your control, but it will not attack you. Death-Stealing Gaze (Su) You gain the death-stealing gaze ability of a nabasu. You can activate this ability as a free action and use it for up to 3 rounds per day plus a number of additional rounds equal to your Constitution modifier—these rounds need not be consecutive, but they must be used in 1-round increments. All living creatures within 30 feet of you when your death-stealing gaze is active must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC = 10 + half your Hit Dice + your Charisma modifier) or gain a negative level. A humanoid slain in this manner immediately transforms into a ghoul under your control. You can create only one ghoul in this manner per round. If multiple humanoids die from this ability simultaneously, you choose which of them rises as a ghoul. Nabasu demons that gain this boon can instead use their death-stealing gaze at will, regardless of their total number of growth points. Vampirism (Su) While Zura’s favored worshipers are vampires, she still values the service of powerful cult members who yet live, for a living cultist can move about in the light of day and need not fear the weaknesses most vampires do. But this is not to say that Zura denies her greatest followers the bliss and rapture of becoming a vampire, at least for short periods of time. Thanks to your long-standing devotion to the Vampire Queen, you have become one of those chosen few to gain this peek into a vampire’s unlife without having to give up living. Once per day, you can infuse yourself with the qualities of a vampire. Apply the vampire template to yourself for the duration of this effect, which lasts for 1d6 rounds plus an additional number of rounds equal to your Charisma bonus. When the effect ends, you are staggered for 1d4 rounds. In time, most worshipers of Zura hope to become vampires, and those who do and have this boon find that they can still draw upon its effects to bolster their power. If you are already a vampire and you activate this boon, you gain the advanced creature simple template for the duration of this effect.</blockquote>

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