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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9155920" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://drivethrurpg.com/product/340773/beowulf-age-of-heroes?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">BEOWULF: Age of Heroes</a>5eUndead Screamer: The Earth-buried. The screamers seem to have access to primal earth magic and some of them have undergone a ritual that transforms them from living creatures to undead forms, having already ‘died’ once before and rejected the afterlife in order to return to the worldly earth. The screamer has undergone the earth-buried ritual. Undead Nicor: ?Orcneas: ?Dreag, Revenant: These are revenants, those who return from death, that have arisen again for some purpose. Many are the stories of folk who come back because they have left some uncompleted in life and who finally rest after completing such missions. It’s noble for Heroes to assist the dead if the purpose of the dréag is honourable but sometimes the dead rise to answer the call of a greater evil, or to take revenge on the living. Heag, Tomb Guardian, Honorable Tomb Guardian: Similarly the héag are associated with the barrows of the dead, but they are defenders of the dead — warriors whose drive to protect others extends beyond death itself. Once warriors that served to protect their people, their sense of duty extends past death. Mearcstapa, March-Stepper: March-steppers are those undead who have lost their connection to their burial site and now wander the wilderness. Most of them are tall and gangly, seemingly stretched into a larger shape than their original bodies. Some legends say that this is because they are always reaching up to the heavens to beseech the gods and always being denied. Undead Serpent: Legends tell of undead serpents made of the bones of other creatures and reanimated by the power of the earth itself. By mighty rituals the serpents of the earth can cross back from death’s threshold. Undead Screamer, The Earth-Buried: ?Orcneas, Most Common of the Undead in the Lands Between the Two Seas, Ghoul, Dead-Eater, Visitor to the Corpse-Fjord, Corpse-Creature: ?Dreag, Again-Walker: ?Corrupted Revenant: ?Heag, Mound-Dweller, Defender of the Dead, Warrior, Dedicated Protector, Barrow-Folk That Guard Their Kin From Grave Robbers: ?Mearcstapa, Undead Who Have Lost Their Connection to Their Burial Site, Ceaseless Wanderer: ?Undead, Undead Creature: ?Dead Who Wander Away From Their Resting Place: ?Undead Monster: In life, this person or creature swore a mighty oath to defend their kin. This oath carried through into death and now they rise again whenever they are in danger.A learned person sought out the means to live forever, but the ruinous process of defying the laws of nature have turned them into a Monster. Now they only seek eternal rest. Some aspect of the funeral rites were not performed correctly and the Monster seeks a proper burial. However, expressing such a complex request is difficult when a hunger for living flesh overrides all other sensations. In life this person had some mighty desire or purpose and when they died they could not remain still. They rose again and will attack anything that prevents them from achieving their goals.There is some great cycle at work here, a story that repeats itself, between generations of a family or between star-crossed lovers, or sworn enemies. And now, the bond has gone beyond death. The undead Monster is caught in the cycle and only the Hero can end this terrible business.This land is full of old burial chambers or other strange customs. For many years the newcomers respected the old graves and left them alone. Now they have disturbed them for some reason: lack of space, perhaps, or desire for the stones that made the chambers, or even greed for the valuables of the dead. And now the dead rise. Long ago, a sailor left this area to seek their fortune. They swore oaths that they would return to their loved ones by tragedy struck in foreign fields far away. But now they have returned, along with the rest of a ghostly crew and will likely be displeased that folk gave them up for dead. An ancient people laid their dead to rest, never thinking that the land could change over time. But the land has shifted and what used to be the bogs where the dead were laid to rest are now dry and desolate, or the stone cairns have been broken open by the trembling earth and the dead have been disturbed. There used to be a powerful artefact here that kept the dead at peace. Greedy bandits or another Monster stole the artefact and now the dead are restless. The artefact must be found and returned to its proper place in the barrow.Whichever folk made use of the local barrows or dolmens were not the first. Indeed, a truly ancient folk made the original tombs and it is their spirits that have been disturbed and the Monster serves as either guardian of the tombs or punisher of the locals. Undead Monster, The Unresting Dead: ?Undead Monster, Guardian of the Tombs: ?Undead Monster, Punisher of the Locals: ?Undead That Possesses Great Power in its Barrow But, If Tricked in the Bright Sunlight is Easily Destroyed: ?Ghost: ?Ghost King, Ghost of the Old King: ?Ghost King's Son, Ghost of the Old King's Son: ?Ghostly Crewmember: ?Skeletal Seal: ?</blockquote>

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