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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8701400" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/346800/Adventures-in-Tehuatl-5e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Adventures in Tehuatl (5e)</a>5eAboleth Nihileth: ?Allip: ?Bone Swarm: ?Cadaver: The Aztli teenagers who transformed into these shambling undead abominations foolishly ingested saline swamp water while frolicking in a deep pond. The salt content made them delirious and dehydrated. When one of them fell into the pond and started to drown, the others leapt into the water and vainly tried to rescue him. In the end, they all perished and began their existence as cadavers.Drowned Maiden: ?Fire Phantom: ?Ghoul Cinder: ?Huecuva: ?Shadow Greater: ?Skeleton Black: ?Spawn of Tlatoani: ?Unresurrected Wraith: The Old Master lies dead. If anyone takes the chom’s advice and attempts to talk to him by placing the kernel and the jadeite into his mouth, they are in for a rude awakening … literally. Performing this act causes the creature to rise from the dead, transcending his bound corpse as an unresurrected wraith, and while truthfully it can talk, it is furious. It accuses the characters of being blasphemous heathens who have disturbed its rest for taboo purposes.Zombie Nihilethic: If a creature dies while diseased [from a nihileth aboleth's tentacle attack], it rises in 1d6 rounds as a nihilethic zombie.If a creature dies while diseased [from a nihilethic zombie's slam attack], it rises in 2d6 rounds as a nihilethic zombie.Nihileth Aboleth, Normally Dominant Monster, Undead Monstrosity, Undead Abomination, Malevolent Creature, Abomination, Monstrosity, Ethereal Nihileth, Something Large, Arrogant Monster: ?Nihileth Creator: ?Allip, Incorporeal Flying Allip, Undead Spirit: ?Bone Swarm, Angry Animated Whirlwind of Shattered Broken Bones: ?Cadaver, Shambling Undead Abomination: ?Drowned Maiden, Hideously Bloated Body, Floating Corpse: ?Amriuhu, Cinder Ghoul: This morning, Amacaina captured Amriuhu (N male Poqoza half-elf scout), the rival group’s leader, and keeps him hogtied inside her abode. She spent the day sewing hides together and chanting over him as she sliced his flesh more than 200 times as part of a gory ritual long forbidden within her culture and by Tlatlcolli. When the sun set, she wrapped Amriuhu in her cinched hide bag and dragged him over a roaring fire so the heat could evaporate the moisture in the hides and crush the tortured person wrapped inside the bag.The characters arrive on the scene as Amacaina calls down bolts of lightning from the clouds as she dances in a contorted manner to a melody only she can hear. The wounded Amriuhu struggles to breathe inside the bag, hastening the torturous ritual. Amacaina is also not alone, as 2 greater shadows who share her interest in spreading chaos and evil hover nearby in the shadows beyond the fiery light. Their malevolence seems to capture and suppress some of the radiance emanating from the flames as they seem to taste the victim’s lifeforce ebbing from him. Although normally confined to the maizefields of Miquito (the Land of the Dead), Ixana’s ritual inexplicably summoned them to this location.Ixana also gleefully watches from the darkness. She feels her time with her ticitl is drawing to a close. She waits to say goodbye to Amacaina until after Amriuhu finally succumbs to the pressure of the shrinking hides and the heat. She swears she heard several bones snapping and faint, wracking wails over the crackling of the flames caressing the hide bag as it dips lower into the blaze.When the characters arrive, the rest of the villagers are nowhere to be found. Amacaina’s grisly ritual and her unearthly associates scared everyone away except for one young Poqoza woman who bizarrely smiles at the spectacle. She is Ixana, who is disguised as a female humanoid. The participants are so engrossed in their ritualistic killing that they suffer disadvantage on their Wisdom (Perception) checks. The characters can interrupt the ritual by physically preventing Amacaina from performing her frenetic dance. If they do so for more than three rounds, the lightning stops and the cloud dissipate. If the characters fail to stop the ritual in less than one minute after they first see Amacaina, Amriuhu dies and is reborn as a cinder ghoul.Huecuva, Unfaithful Undead Priest: An unusually charismatic hobgoblin evangelist named Banc commands the military and religious expedition. The new faith he espouses is his belief in his own divinity, and he resorts to any means necessary to propagate his belief, including unspeakable acts of cruelty and barbarism. As proof of his godhood, he demonstrates his ability to cast powerful spells, an act he could not achieve without divine intervention. Of course, the arrogant Banc is a charlatan who cannot explain how he obtained his priestly powers. Unbeknownst to him, the Aztli god Itztliteotl took an interest in the conniving huckster. He grants the hobgoblin his magical powers to amuse himself and indirectly to spite the Poqozas and Tlatlcolli. Many Poqozas, including some of Tlatlcolli’s priests, fell prey to his abundant charms and brutal tactics. As punishment for their lack of faith, the angry god condemned his former priests to an undead existence as huecuvas who are partly to blame for the illnesses afflicting the Poqozas.Black Skeleton, Undead Monstrosity, Evil Guardian: ?Zombie Nihilethic, Zombie Thrall, Undead Abomination, Ethereal Undead, Zombie Servant, Unfortunate Creature: Roughly once every 1,000 years, an enormous rogue gas giant planet passes through the solar system, creating a prolonged solar eclipse. After centuries of inaction, the nihileth aboleth took the event as its signal to reactivate. Over the next several weeks, the undead abomination began to enslave the unsuspecting teenagers venturing to the Mulla Chanacu, transforming the vibrant youngsters into a zombie horde.The reawakened nihileth aboleth now poisons the land surrounding the Mulla Chanacu where young Poqozas experience visions to guide them into adulthood. Over the past several weeks, he has killed and raised many of them as zombie thralls under his command. Furthermore, the adults sent to check on their well-being also fell prey to the monster that now swims in the muck at the bottom of the Mulla Chanacu crater.The plants are the nihileth’s advance guard, but the teenagers and rescuers who ventured to the Mulla Chanacu are its army. The young Poqozas who set off from their homes to partake in the spirit quests quickly fell prey to the nihileth, who killed them and reanimated their corpses as zombies under its command. The nihileth also stalked the tallgrass to slaughter bandits, fugitives, and hunters to supplement its band of recruits.Undead: ?Ghast, Undead Scavenger: ?Ghost, Apparition of a Gnoll Priest: ?Ghoul, Undead Scavenger: ?Mummy, Undead Monstrosity: In an ultimate act of sacrilege, Itzcuin raised one of the acolyte’s corpses as a mummy.Mummy: ?Mummy Necocyaotl's Chosen: When the canal walls that created the Yoaltica Ilaquiloz flooded the region, the temple tumbled and sank into the mire. The warrior-priests, unable to escape the destruction, sacrificed themselves to Necocyaotl using sacred potions to mummify their remains so they could continue to serve their god in death.Shriveled Body Wrapped in Leaves and Sealed With Mud: ?Shadow: If a non-evil humanoid dies from [a black orc high priest of Orcus's caress of Orcus] attack, a shadow rises from the corpse in 24 hours under the priest’s control, unless the humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed.If a non-evil humanoid dies from [a greater shadow's strength drain] attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.Huge Skeletal Dragon Queen: ?Minotaur Skeleton: Long before the Aztli retreated into the depths of the earth, the Tepepan Mountains served as the home of a moon princess minotaur and her minions. The priestess led her progeny through her interpretation of the celestial bodies, especially the moon and all its phases. This civilization thrived for many centuries but died of a waterborne plague. In her hubris, she misread a premonition warning her of a melt, which came to pass. The event killed the entire minotaur population and collapsed their short passageway to the surface. However, four of her minions reanimated after death as skeletons.Wraith, Hateful Monstrosity: The twins’ worshippers and priests almost unanimously abandoned the destroyed gods, but two of the acolytes refused to leave. They painted the images on the cavern walls to commemorate their patron deities in bleak fashion. To punish them for their insolence, Yaocteotl transformed them into 2 wraiths.Wraith: Tlatoani bound the tortured souls of those victims he sacrificed against their wills to this chamber and cursed them to prevent their escape.Wraith, Undead Monstrosity: ?Zombie, Ravenous Walking Corpse, Desiccated Corpse, Dead, Walking Dead, Lumbering Corpse, Shoving Corpse, Shuffling Corpse: ?Dimwitted Zombie, Undead Monstrosity: ?Slumbering Zombie: ?</blockquote>

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