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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8136602" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/329547/Engines--Empires-World-of-Gaia-Campaign-Setting?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Engines & Empires World of Gaia Campaign Setting</a>Engines & EmpiresUndead: There arose among the Sidhe two great wizards. One, Myrddin, was a good sorcerer who sought the knowledge of the Ancients to keep his own people from repeating the Ancients’ mistakes. The other, Namtar, was weak-willed and power-hungry. He was the ideal pawn for Zudos, and so the mind of Zudos took him, possessed him, corrupted him, and bent him utterly to his will. Namtar listened as the very knowledge of Zudos was whispered directly into his mind, and he began to experiment. First, he played with life and death. He created many foul monsters, both living and dead. Namtar came to hold a particular fascination with death and disease. He created the first undead monsters—all kinds, from ghouls to vampires—and he invented new and cursed diseases, like mummy rot. Animi: ?Ghoul: There arose among the Sidhe two great wizards. One, Myrddin, was a good sorcerer who sought the knowledge of the Ancients to keep his own people from repeating the Ancients’ mistakes. The other, Namtar, was weak-willed and power-hungry. He was the ideal pawn for Zudos, and so the mind of Zudos took him, possessed him, corrupted him, and bent him utterly to his will. Namtar listened as the very knowledge of Zudos was whispered directly into his mind, and he began to experiment. First, he played with life and death. He created many foul monsters, both living and dead. Namtar came to hold a particular fascination with death and disease. He created the first undead monsters—all kinds, from ghouls to vampires—and he invented new and cursed diseases, like mummy rot. Namtar, The Lich-King, Lich Lord: At last, when Namtar felt that his knowledge was complete, he sought to create a life-form that could even rival the Behemoth or the Weapon in power—and he created the seven-headed dragon-fiend called Tiamat. But this undertaking, this feat of evil, was so draining that even the immortal life of a Sidhe was consumed by it. And so, in order to preserve his existence, Namtar had to give himself over into his most beloved invention—undeath—and he became the first Lich Lord. Apophis of Mephret, Lich: Apophis used dark spells, whispered from the far moon by Zudos, to transfer the consciousness of Namtar into a mummified human corpse, thereby freeing the Lich-King from his prison. For his due reward, Apophis was promptly slain and made into a lich himself, a mere puppet in Namtar’s thrall. Mummy: Apophis used dark spells, whispered from the far moon by Zudos, to transfer the consciousness of Namtar into a mummified human corpse, thereby freeing the Lich-King from his prison. For his due reward, Apophis was promptly slain and made into a lich himself, a mere puppet in Namtar’s thrall. So too were all of Apophis’s lesser acolytes then murdered and made into mummies and sah-hotep mummy-priests. Sah-Hotep Mummy-Priest: Apophis used dark spells, whispered from the far moon by Zudos, to transfer the consciousness of Namtar into a mummified human corpse, thereby freeing the Lich-King from his prison. For his due reward, Apophis was promptly slain and made into a lich himself, a mere puppet in Namtar’s thrall. So too were all of Apophis’s lesser acolytes then murdered and made into mummies and sah-hotep mummy-priests. Revenant: Apophis used dark spells, whispered from the far moon by Zudos, to transfer the consciousness of Namtar into a mummified human corpse, thereby freeing the Lich-King from his prison. For his due reward, Apophis was promptly slain and made into a lich himself, a mere puppet in Namtar’s thrall. So too were all of Apophis’s lesser acolytes then murdered and made into mummies and sah-hotep mummy-priests. And as for all those lords and warriors who had accepted gifts from the foul sorcerer, they were suddenly transformed into spectres and revenants. Spectre: Apophis used dark spells, whispered from the far moon by Zudos, to transfer the consciousness of Namtar into a mummified human corpse, thereby freeing the Lich-King from his prison. For his due reward, Apophis was promptly slain and made into a lich himself, a mere puppet in Namtar’s thrall. So too were all of Apophis’s lesser acolytes then murdered and made into mummies and sah-hotep mummy-priests. And as for all those lords and warriors who had accepted gifts from the foul sorcerer, they were suddenly transformed into spectres and revenants. Vampire: There arose among the Sidhe two great wizards. One, Myrddin, was a good sorcerer who sought the knowledge of the Ancients to keep his own people from repeating the Ancients’ mistakes. The other, Namtar, was weak-willed and power-hungry. He was the ideal pawn for Zudos, and so the mind of Zudos took him, possessed him, corrupted him, and bent him utterly to his will. Namtar listened as the very knowledge of Zudos was whispered directly into his mind, and he began to experiment. First, he played with life and death. He created many foul monsters, both living and dead. Namtar came to hold a particular fascination with death and disease. He created the first undead monsters—all kinds, from ghouls to vampires—and he invented new and cursed diseases, like mummy rot. Archduke Janosz VI, Vampire-Lord: ?Draug, Draugr: Namtar grew fascinated with the elves; he captured a great many of them. He worked his evil experiments upon them, and thus from the elves came the draugish species and the Dark Fae called the “Sluagh.”</blockquote>

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