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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8275206" data-attributes="member: 2209">Candlekeep Mysteries5eUndead: ?Miirym the Spectral Wyrm, Spectral Dragon: Well over 1,500 years ago, the silver dragon Miirym broke into Candlekeep, intent on adding its riches to her hoard. She devoured scholars and destroyed a score of irreplaceable books before she was confronted by an archmage and bound into service to protect Candlekeep as penance for her misdeeds. The wizard passed away before Miirym’s sentence had been served, and other spellcasters were unable to break the enchantment that bound her.Time passed and so did Miirym, whose corpse has long since crumbled into dust. Unfortunately for Miirym, the enchantment remains in effect on her spirit. The spectral dragon—what’s left of her—dwells in the catacombs and caves under the library.Shemshime, Malevolent Spirit: ?Cloud Giant Ghost: ?Undead Minion: ?Zizokrishka, Adult Blue Dracolich: In her thirst for power, she sought and achieved transformation into a dracolich, willing to wait an eternity to outlast the spell that held Hamukai near death, knowing his life force would one day dissipate and the vault would become openable.Helmdar, Storm Giant Skeleton: Helmdar completed his mission but was killed by Zikzokrishka and turned into an undead thrall to guard her lair.Undead Thrall: ?Xanthoria, Lichen Lich: Xanthoria was a powerful druid who transformed herself into a lichen lich.Liches typically use inanimate objects as phylacteries, but Xanthoria discovered a way to house her soul in a living sprite named Thunderwing.Xanthoria was a druid of Silvanus (god of wild nature) whose forest home was threatened by undead. By researching fungi and lichen, Xanthoria hoped to create a weapon that could protect her forest against undead invaders.At some point, Xanthoria’s research became more geared toward creating a ward against death itself, then finally toward achieving lichdom.Ultimately, Xanthoria found a way to link her soul to the life force of another creature and thereby unnaturally prolong her own life, by transforming the other creature into a phylactery.Xanthoria was a half-elf druid of Silvanus, and a small symbol of Silvanus hangs around her neck. Unfortunately for her, she fell into madness and her research became twisted due to the machinations of Zuggtmoy. She began to perform terrible experiments on living creatures to try to find ways to bridge the gap between life and death. Eventually, she turned her experiments on herself, causing her to transform into an unholy lichen lich.Undead Behir: ?Lichen Lich: Lichen liches are the undead remnants of powerful druids.Strange Bundle of White Poison Ivy With a Single Bulbous Eye in the Middle: ?Death Tyrant: ?Mold-Encrusted Skeleton: ?Death Knight: ?Flameskull, Consortium of Three: These are the remains of the Consortium of Three, the Netherese wizards who were loyal to Prince Hamukai. After establishing the refuge at Haruun, they honed their magic and vowed to return to Azumar to defeat Zikzokrishka. When they did, they discovered to their horror that Zikzokrishka had transformed into a dracolich, becoming even more powerful. They were defeated, transformed into flameskulls by the dracolich, and commanded to guard her necropolis for eternity.Sarah, Grieving Ghost: Sarah was one of the servants killed alongside Lady Maria and the three Yellowcrest children—all murdered by Lord Viallis as part of his willing descent into evil. For five years, the young woman’s immortal spirit has been bound within [the book] Sarah of Yellowcrest Manor.Ghost: It appears they stopped in the cave after an intense battle, fell asleep, and did not wake when the tide came in. Their spirits, corrupted by this horrific death, lie in wait.Zyrian the Scrivener, Ghost: ?Ghoul: ?Lich: Ordinary liches contain their souls in inanimate objects, but the druid Xanthoria discovered a way to house her soul in a living being.Liches typically use inanimate objects as phylacteries, but Xanthoria discovered a way to house her soul in a living sprite named Thunderwing.The end of the book records several failed attempts by Xanthoria to extend her life through a process similar to becoming a lich. There are various drawings of dissected animals and humanoids alongside musings on the viability of experimenting on fey creatures.Fungal Servant: ?Mummy Lord: The book describes rituals relating to the creation of a mummy lord. One is a unique and horrific process by which a mummy lord’s organs, normally stored in sacred canopic jars during mummification, can be magically preserved and transplanted into living humanoids. The transplant recipients come under the control of the mummy lord, either as living supplicants or mindless golems through which the mummy lord can see and speak. The book also hints of a ritual that can free a servant after the mummy lord is destroyed.Valin Sarnaster, Mummy Lord: Before arriving at Candlekeep, The Canopic Being was stolen from the person who has most recently made use of it. Valin Sarnaster is an honored oracle of Savras, based in the House of the All-Seeing Orb in Tashalar. In accordance with visions she experienced years before, the oracle has embraced undeath by becoming a mummy lord, using the rituals described in the book.Mummy: ?Undead Scholar: ?Shadow: ?Warhorse Skeleton: ?Hands of the Dead: ?Sylphene, Poltergeist: ?Poltergeist: ?Specter: ?Elf Vampire: ?Vampire: ?Wight: ?Drovath Harrn, Wight: ?Will-o'-Wisp: ?Zombie: ?</blockquote>

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