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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7850299" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/28492/Living-Greyhawk-Gazetteer-30?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Living Greyhawk Gazetteer</a></p><p>3.0</p><p><strong>Animus:</strong> Ivid attempted to ensure loyalty by having his generals and nobles assassinated and reanimated as intelligent undead (animuses), with all the abilities they possessed in life. He in turn was also assassinated, though the church of Hextor restored him to undead "life," after which he became a true monster known as Ivid the Undying.</p><p>The most serious internal threat to this realm (aside from the risk of a chaotic orc uprising) is a civil war centered around Rinloru, now devastated after a four-year siege. Ivid V had a noble, a minor priest, turned into an animus during the Greyhawk Wars to govern this city and surrounding lands.</p><p>During the Greyhawk Wars, in which Rel Astra defended itself against renegade Aerdy troops bent on looting it, Drax was forced to receive the "gift of undying" given to so many of Overking Ivid's subjects, and he became an animus.</p><p><strong>Swordwraith:</strong> The result of this was the bloody Battle of Gorna, which saw the defeat of the Keoish force. Some claim that powerful magic employed on behalf of the duke by the archmage Vargalian had a dire origin; many of the slain Keoish warriors remain in the Stark Mounds as undead swordwraiths to this day.</p><p><strong>Dahlvier, Lich Human Wizard 18:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Delgath the Undying, Animus Cleric 17:</strong> The most serious internal threat to this realm (aside from the risk of a chaotic orc uprising) is a civil war centered around Rinloru, now devastated after a four-year siege. Ivid V had a noble, a minor priest, turned into an animus during the Greyhawk Wars to govern this city and surrounding lands.</p><p><strong>His Most Lordly Nobility, Eternal Custodian and Lord Protector of Rel Astra, Drax the Invulnerable, Animus Wizard 11/Fighter 3:</strong> During the Greyhawk Wars, in which Rel Astra defended itself against renegade Aerdy troops bent on looting it, Drax was forced to receive the "gift of undying" given to so many of Overking Ivid's subjects, and he became an animus.</p><p><strong>Lich-Lord Ranial the Gaunt:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Demilich, Acererak:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vecna:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Maskaleyne, Vampire Wizard 12:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Sea Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p></p><p><strong>Undead:</strong> Devoted clerics of Beltar rise from the grave as undead within a year of their deaths, usually returning to aid their original tribe and show proof of the goddess' power.</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 7850299, member: 2209"] [URL=http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/28492/Living-Greyhawk-Gazetteer-30?affiliate_id=17596]Living Greyhawk Gazetteer[/URL] 3.0 [b]Animus:[/b] Ivid attempted to ensure loyalty by having his generals and nobles assassinated and reanimated as intelligent undead (animuses), with all the abilities they possessed in life. He in turn was also assassinated, though the church of Hextor restored him to undead "life," after which he became a true monster known as Ivid the Undying. The most serious internal threat to this realm (aside from the risk of a chaotic orc uprising) is a civil war centered around Rinloru, now devastated after a four-year siege. Ivid V had a noble, a minor priest, turned into an animus during the Greyhawk Wars to govern this city and surrounding lands. During the Greyhawk Wars, in which Rel Astra defended itself against renegade Aerdy troops bent on looting it, Drax was forced to receive the "gift of undying" given to so many of Overking Ivid's subjects, and he became an animus. [b]Swordwraith:[/b] The result of this was the bloody Battle of Gorna, which saw the defeat of the Keoish force. Some claim that powerful magic employed on behalf of the duke by the archmage Vargalian had a dire origin; many of the slain Keoish warriors remain in the Stark Mounds as undead swordwraiths to this day. [b]Dahlvier, Lich Human Wizard 18:[/b] ? [b]Delgath the Undying, Animus Cleric 17:[/b] The most serious internal threat to this realm (aside from the risk of a chaotic orc uprising) is a civil war centered around Rinloru, now devastated after a four-year siege. Ivid V had a noble, a minor priest, turned into an animus during the Greyhawk Wars to govern this city and surrounding lands. [b]His Most Lordly Nobility, Eternal Custodian and Lord Protector of Rel Astra, Drax the Invulnerable, Animus Wizard 11/Fighter 3:[/b] During the Greyhawk Wars, in which Rel Astra defended itself against renegade Aerdy troops bent on looting it, Drax was forced to receive the "gift of undying" given to so many of Overking Ivid's subjects, and he became an animus. [b]Lich-Lord Ranial the Gaunt:[/b] ? [b]Demilich, Acererak:[/b] ? [b]Vecna:[/b] ? [b]Maskaleyne, Vampire Wizard 12:[/b] ? [b]Sea Zombie:[/b] ? [b]Undead:[/b] Devoted clerics of Beltar rise from the grave as undead within a year of their deaths, usually returning to aid their original tribe and show proof of the goddess' power. [b]Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Wight:[/b] ? [b]Zombie:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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