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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9165092" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>Historica Arcanum City of Crescent</p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Gulyabani:</strong> The ones with unfinished business… These undead creatures are the remains of the people who died with hatred besieging their souls.</p><p><strong>Tall Spirit, Aychura:</strong> Not all undead are vile creatures. Some are the results of rebound transmutation or alteration magic cast on the corpses of the pure. Aychura is one such undead, filled with the will to punish the sinners who hurt innocent animals and children.</p><p><strong>Ya'is:</strong> You must have heard those soul crushing screams the mothers let out when their children die. Or the pain that comes out of a man who has lost his beloved. Sometimes, when the pain is too much and the agony is too powerful, the mourner will let loose an ominous energy. From that dark and swirling energy Ya’is are born.</p><p><strong>Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Tepes III, The Impaler, The Dracula, The Dark Voivoda, Blackened Mist, Threat, Jailee:</strong> The earthquake of the 1700’s changed everything: the priests were all dead and seals weakened, people living close to the church started to see horrible nightmares, and Vlad’s evil aura transformed most of the dead buried in the graveyard into undead. It is about this time that the skull started to not only affect the dead around it, but to resurrect Vlad, inch by inch.</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Being, Na-Meftun:</strong> When some people perish with an unfinished business, when they are in the pursuit of everlasting life and meddle with the dark arcane art of bending time & space, or if someone’s life meets an gruesome end at the behest of magic, they return as undead.</p><p>The earthquake of the 1700’s changed everything: the priests were all dead and seals weakened, people living close to the church started to see horrible nightmares, and Vlad’s evil aura transformed most of the dead buried in the graveyard into undead.</p><p>Not all undead are vile creatures. Some are the results of rebound transmutation or alteration magic cast on the corpses of the pure.</p><p><strong>Hollow Undead:</strong> Those puny enough to be engulfed by the spells that they perform become hollow undead, animated with only one basic goal and only possessing small to little personality.</p><p>Undeadification Terrestrial Repercussion.</p><p><strong>Incorporeal Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Progenitus:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Potent Dead, Most Dreaded Most Feared Potentially Most Powerful Kind of Undead, Primogenitus, Horror:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lingering Spectral Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vile Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Avenger:</strong> In real history there are countless soldiers, those who lost their lives in wars, cities raised down to ash and dirt, people who were exiled, tortured, drowned, hanged, electrocuted, impaled, or slain in plenty of other creative ways. They could be used as undead avengers, plot hooks, spirits.</p><p><strong>Gulyabani, One With Unfinished Business, Remains of One Who Died With Hatred Beseiging Their Soul, Very Common Threat:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Brother Nicolei, Gulyabani:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Tall Spirit, Slender Tall Humanoid Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ever-Hungry Ghast, Hollow Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost, Incorporeal Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Porphyros, Ghost, Peaceful Very Much Loved Dweller of the Undercity:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Sir Joseph, Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bartholomew, Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghostly Spectator:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Radu the Handsome, Ghost, Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Yakup Agha, Ghost:</strong> After being defeated, the ghost of Yakup Agha will rise from the residue of the fallen specter and ask what happened to the Janissary Hearth and his daughter after his death.</p><p><strong>Ghost Jannisary Fighter, Guardian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mahmoud II, Regent of the Eye, Unyielding Spirit, Ghost, Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Faceless Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghostly Draconic Figure:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost of a Historically Important Figure:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Emperor Constantine, Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ever-Hungry Ghoul, Hollow Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> Undeadification Terrestrial Repercussion.</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Hollow Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich, Most Dreaded Most Feared Potentially Most Powerful Kind of Undead, Primogenitus, Horror:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ancient Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mummy Lord:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Hacivat, Shadow:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Karagoz, Shadow:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mindless Skeleton, Hollow Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton:</strong> Undeadification Terrestrial Repercussion.</p><p><strong>Skeletal Undead Shaman:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeletal Undead Warrior:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Specter:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Yakup Agha, Undead Specter:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Abu Ayyub, Specter, Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spectral Horse, Spectral Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spectral Rider, Spectral Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spectral Librarian:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spirit, Incorporeal Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Princess Helena, Spirit, Withered Tired Spirit:</strong> Princess Helena was the daughter of Basileos Constantine. She was imprisoned in this tower for ages by an entity she calls “The Serpent,” and the creature’s sick vengeance against Constantine for reasons Helena isn’t privy to.</p><p><strong>Spirit:</strong> In real history there are countless soldiers, those who lost their lives in wars, cities raised down to ash and dirt, people who were exiled, tortured, drowned, hanged, electrocuted, impaled, or slain in plenty of other creative ways. They could be used as undead avengers, plot hooks, spirits.</p><p><strong>Spirit of the Dead, Spectral Form:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Restless Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire, Most Dreaded Most Feared Potentially Most Powerful Kind of Undead, Primogenitus, Horror:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Elder Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Evil Enemy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Will-o'-Wisp:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vicious Zombie, Hollow Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> Undeadification Terrestrial Repercussion.</p><p><strong>Njal the Tepegoz, Zombie-Like Undead, Undead Guardian, Varangian Viking Berserker:</strong> Years after his death, his spirit was summoned to St. Benoit Church to strengthen the seal of Vlad Tepes.</p><p><strong>Buraq the Jannisary, Zombie-Like Undead, Undead Guardian, Deadeye Sharpshooter:</strong> Years after his death, his spirit was summoned to St. Benoit Church to strengthen the seal of Vlad Tepes.</p><p><strong>Donovan the Armorclad, Zombie-Like Undead, Undead Guardian, Mercenary Cataphract:</strong> Years after his death, his spirit was summoned to St. Benoit Church to strengthen the seal of Vlad Tepes.</p><p><strong>Homayun the Arsonist, Zombie-Like Undead, Undead Guardian, Pyromaniac Persion Immortal:</strong> Years after his death, his spirit was summoned to St. Benoit Church to strengthen the seal of Vlad Tepes.</p><p></p><p>Terrestrial Repercussion: A grand curse of animating the dead in a 10-mile diameter is cast upon the fallen. All the dead creatures, whether they are humanoids or some other creatures, are animated as hollow undead. The GM can choose any number of skeletons, zombies, and/or ghouls according to the needs of the game being run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9165092, member: 2209"] Historica Arcanum City of Crescent 5e [b]Gulyabani:[/b] The ones with unfinished business… These undead creatures are the remains of the people who died with hatred besieging their souls. [b]Tall Spirit, Aychura:[/b] Not all undead are vile creatures. Some are the results of rebound transmutation or alteration magic cast on the corpses of the pure. Aychura is one such undead, filled with the will to punish the sinners who hurt innocent animals and children. [b]Ya'is:[/b] You must have heard those soul crushing screams the mothers let out when their children die. Or the pain that comes out of a man who has lost his beloved. Sometimes, when the pain is too much and the agony is too powerful, the mourner will let loose an ominous energy. From that dark and swirling energy Ya’is are born. [b]Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Tepes III, The Impaler, The Dracula, The Dark Voivoda, Blackened Mist, Threat, Jailee:[/b] The earthquake of the 1700’s changed everything: the priests were all dead and seals weakened, people living close to the church started to see horrible nightmares, and Vlad’s evil aura transformed most of the dead buried in the graveyard into undead. It is about this time that the skull started to not only affect the dead around it, but to resurrect Vlad, inch by inch. [b]Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Being, Na-Meftun:[/b] When some people perish with an unfinished business, when they are in the pursuit of everlasting life and meddle with the dark arcane art of bending time & space, or if someone’s life meets an gruesome end at the behest of magic, they return as undead. The earthquake of the 1700’s changed everything: the priests were all dead and seals weakened, people living close to the church started to see horrible nightmares, and Vlad’s evil aura transformed most of the dead buried in the graveyard into undead. Not all undead are vile creatures. Some are the results of rebound transmutation or alteration magic cast on the corpses of the pure. [b]Hollow Undead:[/b] Those puny enough to be engulfed by the spells that they perform become hollow undead, animated with only one basic goal and only possessing small to little personality. Undeadification Terrestrial Repercussion. [b]Incorporeal Undead:[/b] ? [b]Progenitus:[/b] ? [b]Potent Dead, Most Dreaded Most Feared Potentially Most Powerful Kind of Undead, Primogenitus, Horror:[/b] ? [b]Lingering Spectral Undead:[/b] ? [b]Vile Creature:[/b] ? [b]Undead Avenger:[/b] In real history there are countless soldiers, those who lost their lives in wars, cities raised down to ash and dirt, people who were exiled, tortured, drowned, hanged, electrocuted, impaled, or slain in plenty of other creative ways. They could be used as undead avengers, plot hooks, spirits. [b]Gulyabani, One With Unfinished Business, Remains of One Who Died With Hatred Beseiging Their Soul, Very Common Threat:[/b] ? [b]Brother Nicolei, Gulyabani:[/b] ? [b]Tall Spirit, Slender Tall Humanoid Undead Creature:[/b] ? [b]Ever-Hungry Ghast, Hollow Undead:[/b] ? [b]Ghost, Incorporeal Undead:[/b] ? [b]Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Porphyros, Ghost, Peaceful Very Much Loved Dweller of the Undercity:[/b] ? [b]Sir Joseph, Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Bartholomew, Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Ghostly Spectator:[/b] ? [b]Radu the Handsome, Ghost, Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Yakup Agha, Ghost:[/b] After being defeated, the ghost of Yakup Agha will rise from the residue of the fallen specter and ask what happened to the Janissary Hearth and his daughter after his death. [b]Ghost Jannisary Fighter, Guardian:[/b] ? [b]Mahmoud II, Regent of the Eye, Unyielding Spirit, Ghost, Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Faceless Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Ghostly Draconic Figure:[/b] ? [b]Ghost of a Historically Important Figure:[/b] ? [b]Emperor Constantine, Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Ever-Hungry Ghoul, Hollow Undead:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul:[/b] Undeadification Terrestrial Repercussion. [b]Ghoul, Hollow Undead:[/b] ? [b]Lich, Most Dreaded Most Feared Potentially Most Powerful Kind of Undead, Primogenitus, Horror:[/b] ? [b]Ancient Lich:[/b] ? [b]Mummy Lord:[/b] ? [b]Hacivat, Shadow:[/b] ? [b]Karagoz, Shadow:[/b] ? [b]Shadow:[/b] ? [b]Mindless Skeleton, Hollow Undead:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton:[/b] Undeadification Terrestrial Repercussion. [b]Skeletal Undead Shaman:[/b] ? [b]Skeletal Undead Warrior:[/b] ? [b]Specter:[/b] ? [b]Yakup Agha, Undead Specter:[/b] ? [b]Abu Ayyub, Specter, Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Spectral Horse, Spectral Undead:[/b] ? [b]Spectral Rider, Spectral Undead:[/b] ? [b]Spectral Librarian:[/b] ? [b]Spirit, Incorporeal Undead:[/b] ? [b]Princess Helena, Spirit, Withered Tired Spirit:[/b] Princess Helena was the daughter of Basileos Constantine. She was imprisoned in this tower for ages by an entity she calls “The Serpent,” and the creature’s sick vengeance against Constantine for reasons Helena isn’t privy to. [b]Spirit:[/b] In real history there are countless soldiers, those who lost their lives in wars, cities raised down to ash and dirt, people who were exiled, tortured, drowned, hanged, electrocuted, impaled, or slain in plenty of other creative ways. They could be used as undead avengers, plot hooks, spirits. [b]Spirit of the Dead, Spectral Form:[/b] ? [b]Restless Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Vampire, Most Dreaded Most Feared Potentially Most Powerful Kind of Undead, Primogenitus, Horror:[/b] ? [b]Elder Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Vampire:[/b] ? [b]Evil Enemy:[/b] ? [b]Will-o'-Wisp:[/b] ? [b]Vicious Zombie, Hollow Undead:[/b] ? [b]Zombie:[/b] Undeadification Terrestrial Repercussion. [b]Njal the Tepegoz, Zombie-Like Undead, Undead Guardian, Varangian Viking Berserker:[/b] Years after his death, his spirit was summoned to St. Benoit Church to strengthen the seal of Vlad Tepes. [b]Buraq the Jannisary, Zombie-Like Undead, Undead Guardian, Deadeye Sharpshooter:[/b] Years after his death, his spirit was summoned to St. Benoit Church to strengthen the seal of Vlad Tepes. [b]Donovan the Armorclad, Zombie-Like Undead, Undead Guardian, Mercenary Cataphract:[/b] Years after his death, his spirit was summoned to St. Benoit Church to strengthen the seal of Vlad Tepes. [b]Homayun the Arsonist, Zombie-Like Undead, Undead Guardian, Pyromaniac Persion Immortal:[/b] Years after his death, his spirit was summoned to St. Benoit Church to strengthen the seal of Vlad Tepes. Terrestrial Repercussion: A grand curse of animating the dead in a 10-mile diameter is cast upon the fallen. All the dead creatures, whether they are humanoids or some other creatures, are animated as hollow undead. The GM can choose any number of skeletons, zombies, and/or ghouls according to the needs of the game being run. [/QUOTE]
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