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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9103795" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/376923/The-Forgotten-Gate?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">The Forgotten Gate</a>5eLesser Bound Undead: ?Podenkrey Geldenkett, Lesser Bound Undead, Mummified Corpse: How a bound undead found itself locked in this cell, however, is a curious tale indeed. During the final evacuation of the Deeplands at the end of the Age of Darkness, before the halls were sealed by the warders, a dwarf thief named Podenkrey Geldenkett tried to slip out with a chest of treasures looted from the Deepland ruins. He might have gotten away with it, had the guards not noticed the inclusion of the crown of King Hethkett III, the last High King of the Donarzheis Mountains, among his treasures. How the crown came into his possession is a twisted tale, too long to cover here, but the guards were not amused. They confiscated his belongings and locked him in this cell.Sadly for the guards, a day later a warband of endrori attacked the tower and killed the soldiers. Even worse for Podenkrey, the endrori didn’t notice him, leaving him locked away in his cell. With no way out, Podenkrey slowly died of thirst over the next few days.For a time, Podenkrey’s ghost roamed the tower, unnaturally bound to the place due to the traumatic nature of his death. As he slowly went mad from despair over his fate, one of his last cogent thoughts was, “At least things can’t get worse.” This proved incorrect.Six months after his death, well before the warders came and sealed this entrance, an abomonae, fleeing the avatars who hunted it, used the tower to enter the Deeplands. As it passed through, its essential form collided with Podenkrey’s spirit, resulting in a terrible and unexpected outcome. The abomonae’s corruption energized the few threads of essence still binding Podenkrey to his corporeal form, rebinding his spirit to his decomposing corpse. To his utter surprise and horror, Podenkrey returned to the world of the living—or in his case, unliving—as a bound undead.Podenkrey Geldenkett, Ghost: How a bound undead found itself locked in this cell, however, is a curious tale indeed. During the final evacuation of the Deeplands at the end of the Age of Darkness, before the halls were sealed by the warders, a dwarf thief named Podenkrey Geldenkett tried to slip out with a chest of treasures looted from the Deepland ruins. He might have gotten away with it, had the guards not noticed the inclusion of the crown of King Hethkett III, the last High King of the Donarzheis Mountains, among his treasures. How the crown came into his possession is a twisted tale, too long to cover here, but the guards were not amused. They confiscated his belongings and locked him in this cell.Sadly for the guards, a day later a warband of endrori attacked the tower and killed the soldiers. Even worse for Podenkrey, the endrori didn’t notice him, leaving him locked away in his cell. With no way out, Podenkrey slowly died of thirst over the next few days.For a time, Podenkrey’s ghost roamed the tower, unnaturally bound to the place due to the traumatic nature of his death. As he slowly went mad from despair over his fate, one of his last cogent thoughts was, “At least things can’t get worse.” This proved incorrect.</blockquote>

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