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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8397631" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/273058/Amethyst-Factions-5E?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Amethyst Factions (5E)</a></p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Undead:</strong> The corruption of Ixindar is a special case. In most situations, a corrupted creature is indistinguishable from its original form. Most Ixindar creatures are actually undead, sustained in the exact same state as they were reanimated in perpetuity, whether it be as a pristine cadaver or a half-rotten corpse.</p><p><strong>Vampire Ghulat:</strong> To become one required either being bitten once or as many as three times. One may need only to reject their church in an exceptionally blasphemous way to become one. Some came from a witch's curse while some rose from the dead with not a single sin upon their soul.</p><p>Ghulath are immortal, undying creatures that have been turned into a ghulat by another ghulat, generally necurats, though no one knows who created them.</p><p>Atop the ladder of power is the necurat, known as a vampire lord to others, the original stock that embraced corruption. These are the most powerful ghulath, the ones that tempted the others, later to be called eidolons. The first generation ghulath all willingly swore their souls to their parental necurath, thus their bodies didn’t degrade like the monsters they would infect later.</p><p>It tells of an ancient line of fae fascinated by the power of Ixindar, but rather than completely fall to the whisper of Mengus, these brilliant and powerful individuals warped the power to serve their needs, using negative energy to keep their souls alive within unliving bodies. What began as experiments with lifeless husks controlled by negative energy eventually evolved to creatures echalogical influence would refer to as vampires.</p><p><strong>Vampire Ghulat Eidolon:</strong> A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by a necurat's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus (if the death was unwilling) or an eidolon (if the death was willing).</p><p>Atop the ladder of power is the necurat, known as a vampire lord to others, the original stock that embraced corruption. These are the most powerful ghulath, the ones that tempted the others, later to be called eidolons. The first generation ghulath all willingly swore their souls to their parental necurath, thus their bodies didn’t degrade like the monsters they would infect later.</p><p><strong>Vampire Ghulat Vampire Familiar:</strong> A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by an eidolon's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus (if the death was unwilling) or a vampire familiar (if the death was willing).</p><p><strong>Vampire Ghulat Phyrus:</strong> A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by a phyrus's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus.</p><p>A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by an eidolon's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus (if the death was unwilling) or a vampire familiar (if the death was willing).</p><p>A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by a vampire familiar's bite attack], rises the following night as a phyrus.</p><p>A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by a necurat's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus (if the death was unwilling) or an eidolon (if the death was willing).</p><p>The vampires turned against their will became phyrus, true monsters barely controlled by the eidolons though still docile in the face of a lord.</p><p>Atop the ladder of power is the necurat, known as a vampire lord to others, the original stock that embraced corruption. These are the most powerful ghulath, the ones that tempted the others, later to be called eidolons. The first generation ghulath all willingly swore their souls to their parental necurath, thus their bodies didn’t degrade like the monsters they would infect later. The vampires turned against their will became phyrus, true monsters barely controlled by the eidolons though still docile in the face of a lord.</p><p><strong>Vampire Ghulat Necurat, Vampire Lord, Lord of Death:</strong> Ghulath are immortal, undying creatures that have been turned into a ghulat by another ghulat, generally necurats, though no one knows who created them.</p><p><strong>Undead Abomination:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bloodsucking Undead Fiend:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Thrall:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Sacander, Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mindless Spawn:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Feral Undead Phyrus:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Pagus:</strong> One of the largest known death dragons, Reaver of Light, keeps a castle near the glacier wall in the north. He commands his private army, increasing his pagus population by scavenging the dead from their daily civil conflicts and raising them to this service.</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie Tyrannosaur:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8397631, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/273058/Amethyst-Factions-5E?affiliate_id=17596]Amethyst Factions (5E)[/URL] 5e [b]Undead:[/b] The corruption of Ixindar is a special case. In most situations, a corrupted creature is indistinguishable from its original form. Most Ixindar creatures are actually undead, sustained in the exact same state as they were reanimated in perpetuity, whether it be as a pristine cadaver or a half-rotten corpse. [b]Vampire Ghulat:[/b] To become one required either being bitten once or as many as three times. One may need only to reject their church in an exceptionally blasphemous way to become one. Some came from a witch's curse while some rose from the dead with not a single sin upon their soul. Ghulath are immortal, undying creatures that have been turned into a ghulat by another ghulat, generally necurats, though no one knows who created them. Atop the ladder of power is the necurat, known as a vampire lord to others, the original stock that embraced corruption. These are the most powerful ghulath, the ones that tempted the others, later to be called eidolons. The first generation ghulath all willingly swore their souls to their parental necurath, thus their bodies didn’t degrade like the monsters they would infect later. It tells of an ancient line of fae fascinated by the power of Ixindar, but rather than completely fall to the whisper of Mengus, these brilliant and powerful individuals warped the power to serve their needs, using negative energy to keep their souls alive within unliving bodies. What began as experiments with lifeless husks controlled by negative energy eventually evolved to creatures echalogical influence would refer to as vampires. [b]Vampire Ghulat Eidolon:[/b] A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by a necurat's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus (if the death was unwilling) or an eidolon (if the death was willing). Atop the ladder of power is the necurat, known as a vampire lord to others, the original stock that embraced corruption. These are the most powerful ghulath, the ones that tempted the others, later to be called eidolons. The first generation ghulath all willingly swore their souls to their parental necurath, thus their bodies didn’t degrade like the monsters they would infect later. [b]Vampire Ghulat Vampire Familiar:[/b] A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by an eidolon's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus (if the death was unwilling) or a vampire familiar (if the death was willing). [b]Vampire Ghulat Phyrus:[/b] A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by a phyrus's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus. A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by an eidolon's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus (if the death was unwilling) or a vampire familiar (if the death was willing). A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by a vampire familiar's bite attack], rises the following night as a phyrus. A humanoid slain in this way [by its hit point maximum being reduced to 0 by a necurat's bite attack] rises the following night as either a phyrus (if the death was unwilling) or an eidolon (if the death was willing). The vampires turned against their will became phyrus, true monsters barely controlled by the eidolons though still docile in the face of a lord. Atop the ladder of power is the necurat, known as a vampire lord to others, the original stock that embraced corruption. These are the most powerful ghulath, the ones that tempted the others, later to be called eidolons. The first generation ghulath all willingly swore their souls to their parental necurath, thus their bodies didn’t degrade like the monsters they would infect later. The vampires turned against their will became phyrus, true monsters barely controlled by the eidolons though still docile in the face of a lord. [b]Vampire Ghulat Necurat, Vampire Lord, Lord of Death:[/b] Ghulath are immortal, undying creatures that have been turned into a ghulat by another ghulat, generally necurats, though no one knows who created them. [b]Undead Abomination:[/b] ? [b]Bloodsucking Undead Fiend:[/b] ? [b]Undead Thrall:[/b] ? [b]Sacander, Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Mindless Spawn:[/b] ? [b]Feral Undead Phyrus:[/b] ? [b]Undead Pagus:[/b] One of the largest known death dragons, Reaver of Light, keeps a castle near the glacier wall in the north. He commands his private army, increasing his pagus population by scavenging the dead from their daily civil conflicts and raising them to this service. [b]Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Zombie Tyrannosaur:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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