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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9017006" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409983/Book-of-Ebon-Tides-for-5th-Edition?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Book of Ebon Tides for 5th Edition</a></p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Darakhul General:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul General, Proud Commanding Darakhul, Hungry Dead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Emperor Vilmos Marquering, The Black Fang, The Twilight Emperor, Darakhul General:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Dragon:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Prince:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul, Ravenous Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoulish Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Incorporeal Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Major Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Evil Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Rampaging Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead of Abnormal Size:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Horror:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Banshee:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghast:</strong> <em>Krail's Rot</em> spell, 9th level spell slot.</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spirit of a Thing That Died in or Near Dark Water:</strong> Worse, the spirits of things that died in or near the water constitute a separate hazard.</p><p><strong>Spirit of a Thing That Died in or Near Dark Water, Hungry Spirit, Ghost, Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Loris Treik, Ghost, Spirit:</strong> The inn’s most opulent room, called the Whispering Room by the staff, is haunted by the spirit of Loris Treik, a maiden who was seduced by Gunrik Stoll and murdered in the room by Stoll’s jealous human mistress, Hiernanda Kitza.</p><p><strong>The Ghost of Keening Kanovar, Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Queen Kalaslurr, The Lady of Ash and Sorrow, Keening Mother of the North, Mistress of Snows, Keeper of the Winter Gate, Friend to the Seven Hands of Ice, Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Old King Usen, Ghost of Soriglass, Human Lord of a Long-Forgotten Land:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>The Pale Innkeeper, Ghost of Soriglass, Human Woman:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Cursing Marbella, Ghost of Soriglass, Elven Woman:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>The Watchman, Ghost of Soriglass, Human City Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>The Drowned Man, Ghost of Soriglass:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>The Moaning Joker, Ghost of Soriglass, Gnomish Woman:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>The Empty Princess, Ghost of Soriglass, Eyeless Princess:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>The Gray Knight, Ghost of Soriglass, Silent Armored Knight With Helm and Sword:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>The Gnawing Ogre, Ghost of Soriglass, Fat Spectral Ogre:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ingortellek, Giant of the Ancients, Ghost of Soriglass, Red-Haired Giant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Ordinary Ghoul, Lesser Ghoul:</strong> <em>Krail's Rot</em> spell, 7th level or higher spell slot.</p><p><strong>Ghoulish Spellcaster:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul Pilgrim:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Corporeal Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darkness-Touched Ghoul:</strong> To the north and west of the Blackwood where the shadow fey dwell lies a great pit in the Shadow Realm’s landscape. A series of deep depressions gouge the dark earth, diving deep into thick shadows and darkened tunnels. In these Black Iron Depths thrives an exiled arm of the Ghoul Empire known as the Twilight Empire. These darkness-touched ghouls thrive in the shadow of the Ironcrags, searching for a way to breach the barrier between darkness and light. Their undead bodies absorb the essence of shadow through the flesh of their meals (shadow fey and other living creatures of the realm), and every ghoul of the Twilight Empire bears the mark of that shadow—their teeth appear pitch black.</p><p>Living flesh is scarce in the Shadow Realm, so while the darakhul still hunt the living denizens of the plane and maintain elaborate trade networks to secure living cargo from mortal lands, they have discovered that the crackling trees—an invasive species originating in Evermaw—can assuage much of their hunger, and they have learned to subsist on the blood-like sap drawn from these trees. This practice marks them though, for the corruption inherent in the flora causes a permanent blackening of the teeth, recession of the gums, and shriveling of the flesh around the mouth.</p><p><strong>Renegade Ghoul, Ragged Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Stout Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Twilight Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ravenous Beggar Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul Wizard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow Realm Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Loyal Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoulish Follower:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Unclean Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Allied Ghoul, Ghoul Ally:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Haunt:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich-King:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> Anu-Akma promotes purity and preserves order, watching over the timely and dignified death of all. His priests anoint those of royal blood to rise again as mummies or liches, and gnoll mortuary guards and guides protect the vast ossuaries and cemeteries from desecration.</p><p><strong>His Excellence Cilestros Margevan, High Priest of the Hunter, Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich Lord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Cave Dragon Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mummy:</strong> Anu-Akma promotes purity and preserves order, watching over the timely and dignified death of all. His priests anoint those of royal blood to rise again as mummies or liches, and gnoll mortuary guards and guides protect the vast ossuaries and cemeteries from desecration.</p><p><strong>Stygian Shade:</strong> [T]he Stygian shades are simply the Shadow Realm’s unique form of the shades that appear anywhere that mortals dwell.</p><p><strong>Mindless Shade:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shade:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Devoted Shade of Kalaslurr, Undead Courtier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hungry Shade:</strong> They work tirelessly to locate black-hearted people whose dreams they can haunt, hounding the hapless victims to death, so they can steal their evil souls. They bring these souls to the headwaters of the Nightbrook, and in a dark ritual that requires a memory philter holding emotions of loss, longing, rage, or bitterness, they twist the souls into hungry shades.</p><p><strong>Shadow, Undead Shadow:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dark Servant Shadow:</strong> Dark Servant Circle of Shadows Druid power.</p><p><strong>Skeleton:</strong> Santerr Illosi’s symbols include a stylized sickle-and-eye symbol, and sometimes, a small pile of finger bones is said to be one of her makeshift altars. Her sacred books include the Harvest of Souls for the Reapers, which describes the proper ceremonies and rituals for either burial or for preparing a cremation as well as discussions of simple necromancy, such as speaking with the dead and raising skeletons and zombies. </p><p><strong>Allied Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Specter:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spirit of an Ancestor:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spirit of the Dead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Creature That Suffers in the Sun:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Spawn:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Corporeal Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Will-o'-Wisp:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Will-o'-Wisp, Unusual Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Tomarrich the Howler, His Spectral Majesty and High Lord of Soriglass, The Keeper of the Final Portal, Warden of the Violet Marshes, Lord Protector of the Boneyard Pass, Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> Santerr Illosi’s symbols include a stylized sickle-and-eye symbol, and sometimes, a small pile of finger bones is said to be one of her makeshift altars. Her sacred books include the Harvest of Souls for the Reapers, which describes the proper ceremonies and rituals for either burial or for preparing a cremation as well as discussions of simple necromancy, such as speaking with the dead and raising skeletons and zombies.</p><p><em>Krail's Rot</em> spell.</p><p><strong>Allied Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Crimson Mist:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dark Father:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dream Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Fear Liath:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Fierstjerren:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Flesh Reaver:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost Dragon:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost Dwarf:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul High Priestess:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Duke Eloghar Vorghesht, Regent of Evernight, Darakhul High Priest:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Shadowmancer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Necrophage Ghast:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Duchess Mikalea Soulreaper, Lorekeeper of Ossean, Necrophage Ghast:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kassimir Valengurd the Confessor, Adviser to the Black Iron Throne, Darakhul Necrophage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Loyal Necrophage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Necrophage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Necrophage Wizard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Tar Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoulsteed:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Goreling:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Grave Behemoth:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Herald of Undeath:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Human God-King:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hungry Ghost Preta:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hungry Ghost Gaki-Jikininki:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kulmking:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lady in White:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hierophant Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Pact Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lost Minotaur:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Nachzehrer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Seeping Death Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Minor Phantom:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Phantom:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Quiet Soul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow River Lord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Clacking Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Monarch Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skull Lantern:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Unhatched Wyrmling:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Unhatched:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Patrician:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Priestess:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wind Eater:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Blood Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lord Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mold Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Nihileth Aboleth:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bone Collective:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bone Swarm:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skin Bat:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpse Mound:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpse Mound, Mountain of Bodies:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Deathwisp:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dissimortuum:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Drowned Maiden:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Fext:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Flutterflesh:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Beggar Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ravenous Beggar Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bonepowder Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Ghoul:</strong> Before the terrible scourge of darakhul fever transformed you into an undead creature, you belonged to another race.</p><p><strong>Darakhul Ranger:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Her Grace Tommika Telanni, Darakhul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>His Grace Ondros Paraselli, Darakhul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Pilgrim:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Priestess:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>First Captain Ingelmarr Rothand, Steward of Bargol’s Watch, Darakhul Gladiator:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Her Witchlight Resplendence Tiberessa Vert, Darakhul Priest:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>His Carmine Eminence and High Patriarch of Zhurahk, Devros Perghallen, Darakhul Priest:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Protector of Souls Sen-Nefer, Darakhul Priest:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Imperial Darakhul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Sage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Scholar:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Elite Darakhul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Necrophage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Elder Darakhul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Sorcerer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Emperor of the Ghouls:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Imperial Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Iron Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Grim Jester:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Haugbui:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich Hound:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mask Wight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mavka:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Venemous Mummy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Myling:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Putrid Haunt:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Rotting Wind:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Rusalka:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Sarcophagus Slime:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shroud:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spectral Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Arcane Spectral Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wolf Spirit Swarm:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vaettir:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wormhearted Suffragan:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost Knight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Warlock:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Cackling Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Husk:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dragon Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Swordbreaker Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dragon Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Virtuoso Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Psychic Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wicked Skull:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul Bat:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Spy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bloated Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darakhul Captain:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Toress Bonespitter, Darakhul Captain:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Duchess Angvyr Ssetha the Lady of Chains, Slave Mistress of Chaingard, Darakhul Captain:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Duke Borag the Executioner, Warlord of Gallwheor, Darakhul Captain:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Duke Wierdunn Bonehand, Warden of Blackstone, Darakhul Captain:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Most Devout Steward and Head Chamberlain Porthan Villeros, Shade Apostle:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Her Luminance Ingalla Vert, Pantheist Priestess of Hecate and Santerr Illosi, Darakhul First Servant:</strong> ?</p><p></p><p>Krail’s Rot</p><p>5th-level necromancy</p><p>Casting Time: 1 action</p><p>Range: 60 feet</p><p>Components: S, M (a drop of blood, a piece of flesh, and a pinch of bone dust)</p><p>Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute</p><p>You target a creature of your choice within range with a wasting of the flesh. Your target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 3d8 necrotic damage at the beginning of each of its turns for the duration. A target reduced to 0 hit points while under the effects of this spell has disadvantage on its death saving throws.</p><p>If your target dies, you can raise it as a zombie as a bonus action on your turn and can use a bonus action on each of your subsequent turns to mentally command it as long as you are within 60 feet of it. If you command multiple undead as a result of multiple castings of this spell or similar spells like animate dead, you can command any or all of them at the same time using the same bonus action, issuing the same command to each one. You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete.</p><p>The creature is under your control for 24 hours, after which it stops obeying any command you've given it. To maintain control of the creature for another 24 hours, you must expend a spell slot of 5th level or higher before the current 24-hour period ends. At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a 7th-level spell slot, your target takes 6d8 necrotic damage at the beginning of each of its turns and animates as a ghoul if it dies. If you cast it using a 9th-level spell slot, it takes 9d8 necrotic damage and animates as a ghast if it dies.</p><p></p><p>DARK SERVANT</p><p>At 6th level, you gain the ability to awaken shadows to do your bidding. As a bonus action, you can target a creature that you can see within 30 feet. That creature’s shadow comes to life as a separate creature under your command, using the shadow stat block.</p><p>The shadow appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the target and can act immediately. The shadow acts on your initiative, it must spend its turn moving toward the target by the most direct route, and it can use its action only to attack the target (and no action is required by you to command the shadow). If the shadow hits with an attack, instead of doing any damage, the target instead has disadvantage on the first attack or saving throw it makes before the start of the shadow’s next turn.</p><p>The shadow disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points, if its target is reduced to 0 hit points, or after 5 minutes.</p><p>You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9017006, member: 2209"] [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409983/Book-of-Ebon-Tides-for-5th-Edition?affiliate_id=17596']Book of Ebon Tides for 5th Edition[/URL] 5e [B]Darakhul General:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul General, Proud Commanding Darakhul, Hungry Dead:[/B] ? [B]Emperor Vilmos Marquering, The Black Fang, The Twilight Emperor, Darakhul General:[/B] ? [B]Undead, Undead Creature:[/B] ? [B]Shadow Creature:[/B] ? [B]Undead Dragon:[/B] ? [B]Undead Prince:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul, Ravenous Undead:[/B] ? [B]Ghoulish Undead:[/B] ? [B]Incorporeal Undead:[/B] ? [B]Major Undead:[/B] ? [B]Evil Undead:[/B] ? [B]Rampaging Undead:[/B] ? [B]Undead of Abnormal Size:[/B] ? [B]Undead Horror:[/B] ? [B]Banshee:[/B] ? [B]Ghast:[/B] [I]Krail's Rot[/I] spell, 9th level spell slot. [B]Ghost:[/B] ? [B]Spirit of a Thing That Died in or Near Dark Water:[/B] Worse, the spirits of things that died in or near the water constitute a separate hazard. [B]Spirit of a Thing That Died in or Near Dark Water, Hungry Spirit, Ghost, Spirit:[/B] ? [B]Loris Treik, Ghost, Spirit:[/B] The inn’s most opulent room, called the Whispering Room by the staff, is haunted by the spirit of Loris Treik, a maiden who was seduced by Gunrik Stoll and murdered in the room by Stoll’s jealous human mistress, Hiernanda Kitza. [B]The Ghost of Keening Kanovar, Ghost:[/B] ? [B]Queen Kalaslurr, The Lady of Ash and Sorrow, Keening Mother of the North, Mistress of Snows, Keeper of the Winter Gate, Friend to the Seven Hands of Ice, Ghost:[/B] ? [B]Old King Usen, Ghost of Soriglass, Human Lord of a Long-Forgotten Land:[/B] ? [B]The Pale Innkeeper, Ghost of Soriglass, Human Woman:[/B] ? [B]Cursing Marbella, Ghost of Soriglass, Elven Woman:[/B] ? [B]The Watchman, Ghost of Soriglass, Human City Guard:[/B] ? [B]The Drowned Man, Ghost of Soriglass:[/B] ? [B]The Moaning Joker, Ghost of Soriglass, Gnomish Woman:[/B] ? [B]The Empty Princess, Ghost of Soriglass, Eyeless Princess:[/B] ? [B]The Gray Knight, Ghost of Soriglass, Silent Armored Knight With Helm and Sword:[/B] ? [B]The Gnawing Ogre, Ghost of Soriglass, Fat Spectral Ogre:[/B] ? [B]Ingortellek, Giant of the Ancients, Ghost of Soriglass, Red-Haired Giant:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul, Ordinary Ghoul, Lesser Ghoul:[/B] [I]Krail's Rot[/I] spell, 7th level or higher spell slot. [B]Ghoulish Spellcaster:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul Pilgrim:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul, Corporeal Undead:[/B] ? [B]Darkness-Touched Ghoul:[/B] To the north and west of the Blackwood where the shadow fey dwell lies a great pit in the Shadow Realm’s landscape. A series of deep depressions gouge the dark earth, diving deep into thick shadows and darkened tunnels. In these Black Iron Depths thrives an exiled arm of the Ghoul Empire known as the Twilight Empire. These darkness-touched ghouls thrive in the shadow of the Ironcrags, searching for a way to breach the barrier between darkness and light. Their undead bodies absorb the essence of shadow through the flesh of their meals (shadow fey and other living creatures of the realm), and every ghoul of the Twilight Empire bears the mark of that shadow—their teeth appear pitch black. Living flesh is scarce in the Shadow Realm, so while the darakhul still hunt the living denizens of the plane and maintain elaborate trade networks to secure living cargo from mortal lands, they have discovered that the crackling trees—an invasive species originating in Evermaw—can assuage much of their hunger, and they have learned to subsist on the blood-like sap drawn from these trees. This practice marks them though, for the corruption inherent in the flora causes a permanent blackening of the teeth, recession of the gums, and shriveling of the flesh around the mouth. [B]Renegade Ghoul, Ragged Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Stout Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Twilight Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Ravenous Beggar Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul Wizard:[/B] ? [B]Shadow Realm Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Loyal Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Ghoulish Follower:[/B] ? [B]Unclean Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Allied Ghoul, Ghoul Ally:[/B] ? [B]Haunt:[/B] ? [B]Lich-King:[/B] ? [B]Lich:[/B] Anu-Akma promotes purity and preserves order, watching over the timely and dignified death of all. His priests anoint those of royal blood to rise again as mummies or liches, and gnoll mortuary guards and guides protect the vast ossuaries and cemeteries from desecration. [B]His Excellence Cilestros Margevan, High Priest of the Hunter, Lich:[/B] ? [B]Lich Lord:[/B] ? [B]Cave Dragon Lich:[/B] ? [B]Mummy:[/B] Anu-Akma promotes purity and preserves order, watching over the timely and dignified death of all. His priests anoint those of royal blood to rise again as mummies or liches, and gnoll mortuary guards and guides protect the vast ossuaries and cemeteries from desecration. [B]Stygian Shade:[/B] [T]he Stygian shades are simply the Shadow Realm’s unique form of the shades that appear anywhere that mortals dwell. [B]Mindless Shade:[/B] ? [B]Shade:[/B] ? [B]Devoted Shade of Kalaslurr, Undead Courtier:[/B] ? [B]Hungry Shade:[/B] They work tirelessly to locate black-hearted people whose dreams they can haunt, hounding the hapless victims to death, so they can steal their evil souls. They bring these souls to the headwaters of the Nightbrook, and in a dark ritual that requires a memory philter holding emotions of loss, longing, rage, or bitterness, they twist the souls into hungry shades. [B]Shadow, Undead Shadow:[/B] ? [B]Dark Servant Shadow:[/B] Dark Servant Circle of Shadows Druid power. [B]Skeleton:[/B] Santerr Illosi’s symbols include a stylized sickle-and-eye symbol, and sometimes, a small pile of finger bones is said to be one of her makeshift altars. Her sacred books include the Harvest of Souls for the Reapers, which describes the proper ceremonies and rituals for either burial or for preparing a cremation as well as discussions of simple necromancy, such as speaking with the dead and raising skeletons and zombies. [B]Allied Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Specter:[/B] ? [B]Spirit:[/B] ? [B]Spirit of an Ancestor:[/B] ? [B]Spirit of the Dead:[/B] ? [B]Vampire, Creature That Suffers in the Sun:[/B] ? [B]Vampire:[/B] ? [B]Vampire Spawn:[/B] ? [B]Vampire, Corporeal Undead:[/B] ? [B]Wight:[/B] ? [B]Will-o'-Wisp:[/B] ? [B]Will-o'-Wisp, Unusual Guardian:[/B] ? [B]Wraith:[/B] ? [B]Tomarrich the Howler, His Spectral Majesty and High Lord of Soriglass, The Keeper of the Final Portal, Warden of the Violet Marshes, Lord Protector of the Boneyard Pass, Wraith:[/B] ? [B]Zombie:[/B] Santerr Illosi’s symbols include a stylized sickle-and-eye symbol, and sometimes, a small pile of finger bones is said to be one of her makeshift altars. Her sacred books include the Harvest of Souls for the Reapers, which describes the proper ceremonies and rituals for either burial or for preparing a cremation as well as discussions of simple necromancy, such as speaking with the dead and raising skeletons and zombies. [I]Krail's Rot[/I] spell. [B]Allied Zombie:[/B] ? [B]Crimson Mist:[/B] ? [B]Dark Father:[/B] ? [B]Dream Wraith:[/B] ? [B]Fear Liath:[/B] ? [B]Fierstjerren:[/B] ? [B]Flesh Reaver:[/B] ? [B]Ghost Dragon:[/B] ? [B]Ghost Dwarf:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul High Priestess:[/B] ? [B]Duke Eloghar Vorghesht, Regent of Evernight, Darakhul High Priest:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Shadowmancer:[/B] ? [B]Necrophage Ghast:[/B] ? [B]Duchess Mikalea Soulreaper, Lorekeeper of Ossean, Necrophage Ghast:[/B] ? [B]Kassimir Valengurd the Confessor, Adviser to the Black Iron Throne, Darakhul Necrophage:[/B] ? [B]Loyal Necrophage:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Necrophage:[/B] ? [B]Necrophage Wizard:[/B] ? [B]Tar Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Ghoulsteed:[/B] ? [B]Goreling:[/B] ? [B]Grave Behemoth:[/B] ? [B]Herald of Undeath:[/B] ? [B]Human God-King:[/B] ? [B]Hungry Ghost Preta:[/B] ? [B]Hungry Ghost Gaki-Jikininki:[/B] ? [B]Kulmking:[/B] ? [B]Lady in White:[/B] ? [B]Hierophant Lich:[/B] ? [B]Pact Lich:[/B] ? [B]Lost Minotaur:[/B] ? [B]Nachzehrer:[/B] ? [B]Seeping Death Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Minor Phantom:[/B] ? [B]Phantom:[/B] ? [B]Quiet Soul:[/B] ? [B]Shadow River Lord:[/B] ? [B]Clacking Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Monarch Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Shadow Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Skull Lantern:[/B] ? [B]Unhatched Wyrmling:[/B] ? [B]Unhatched:[/B] ? [B]Vampire Patrician:[/B] ? [B]Vampire Priestess:[/B] ? [B]Wind Eater:[/B] ? [B]Blood Zombie:[/B] ? [B]Lord Zombie:[/B] ? [B]Mold Zombie:[/B] ? [B]Nihileth Aboleth:[/B] ? [B]Bone Collective:[/B] ? [B]Bone Swarm:[/B] ? [B]Skin Bat:[/B] ? [B]Corpse Mound:[/B] ? [B]Corpse Mound, Mountain of Bodies:[/B] ? [B]Deathwisp:[/B] ? [B]Dissimortuum:[/B] ? [B]Drowned Maiden:[/B] ? [B]Fext:[/B] ? [B]Flutterflesh:[/B] ? [B]Beggar Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Ravenous Beggar Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Bonepowder Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Ghoul:[/B] Before the terrible scourge of darakhul fever transformed you into an undead creature, you belonged to another race. [B]Darakhul Ranger:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Soldier:[/B] ? [B]Her Grace Tommika Telanni, Darakhul:[/B] ? [B]His Grace Ondros Paraselli, Darakhul:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Pilgrim:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Priestess:[/B] ? [B]First Captain Ingelmarr Rothand, Steward of Bargol’s Watch, Darakhul Gladiator:[/B] ? [B]Her Witchlight Resplendence Tiberessa Vert, Darakhul Priest:[/B] ? [B]His Carmine Eminence and High Patriarch of Zhurahk, Devros Perghallen, Darakhul Priest:[/B] ? [B]Protector of Souls Sen-Nefer, Darakhul Priest:[/B] ? [B]Imperial Darakhul:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Sage:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Scholar:[/B] ? [B]Elite Darakhul:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Necrophage:[/B] ? [B]Elder Darakhul:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Sorcerer:[/B] ? [B]Emperor of the Ghouls:[/B] ? [B]Imperial Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Iron Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Grim Jester:[/B] ? [B]Haugbui:[/B] ? [B]Lich Hound:[/B] ? [B]Mask Wight:[/B] ? [B]Mavka:[/B] ? [B]Venemous Mummy:[/B] ? [B]Myling:[/B] ? [B]Putrid Haunt:[/B] ? [B]Rotting Wind:[/B] ? [B]Rusalka:[/B] ? [B]Sarcophagus Slime:[/B] ? [B]Shroud:[/B] ? [B]Spectral Guardian:[/B] ? [B]Arcane Spectral Guardian:[/B] ? [B]Wolf Spirit Swarm:[/B] ? [B]Vaettir:[/B] ? [B]Wormhearted Suffragan:[/B] ? [B]Ghost Knight:[/B] ? [B]Vampire Warlock:[/B] ? [B]Cackling Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Husk:[/B] ? [B]Dragon Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Swordbreaker Skeleton:[/B] ? [B]Dragon Zombie:[/B] ? [B]Virtuoso Lich:[/B] ? [B]Psychic Vampire:[/B] ? [B]Wicked Skull:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul Bat:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Spy:[/B] ? [B]Bloated Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Darakhul Captain:[/B] ? [B]Toress Bonespitter, Darakhul Captain:[/B] ? [B]Duchess Angvyr Ssetha the Lady of Chains, Slave Mistress of Chaingard, Darakhul Captain:[/B] ? [B]Duke Borag the Executioner, Warlord of Gallwheor, Darakhul Captain:[/B] ? [B]Duke Wierdunn Bonehand, Warden of Blackstone, Darakhul Captain:[/B] ? [B]Most Devout Steward and Head Chamberlain Porthan Villeros, Shade Apostle:[/B] ? [B]Her Luminance Ingalla Vert, Pantheist Priestess of Hecate and Santerr Illosi, Darakhul First Servant:[/B] ? Krail’s Rot 5th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: S, M (a drop of blood, a piece of flesh, and a pinch of bone dust) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You target a creature of your choice within range with a wasting of the flesh. Your target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 3d8 necrotic damage at the beginning of each of its turns for the duration. A target reduced to 0 hit points while under the effects of this spell has disadvantage on its death saving throws. If your target dies, you can raise it as a zombie as a bonus action on your turn and can use a bonus action on each of your subsequent turns to mentally command it as long as you are within 60 feet of it. If you command multiple undead as a result of multiple castings of this spell or similar spells like animate dead, you can command any or all of them at the same time using the same bonus action, issuing the same command to each one. You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete. The creature is under your control for 24 hours, after which it stops obeying any command you've given it. To maintain control of the creature for another 24 hours, you must expend a spell slot of 5th level or higher before the current 24-hour period ends. At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a 7th-level spell slot, your target takes 6d8 necrotic damage at the beginning of each of its turns and animates as a ghoul if it dies. If you cast it using a 9th-level spell slot, it takes 9d8 necrotic damage and animates as a ghast if it dies. DARK SERVANT At 6th level, you gain the ability to awaken shadows to do your bidding. As a bonus action, you can target a creature that you can see within 30 feet. That creature’s shadow comes to life as a separate creature under your command, using the shadow stat block. The shadow appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the target and can act immediately. The shadow acts on your initiative, it must spend its turn moving toward the target by the most direct route, and it can use its action only to attack the target (and no action is required by you to command the shadow). If the shadow hits with an attack, instead of doing any damage, the target instead has disadvantage on the first attack or saving throw it makes before the start of the shadow’s next turn. The shadow disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points, if its target is reduced to 0 hit points, or after 5 minutes. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. [/QUOTE]
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