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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9190719" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://nerdarchy.com/product/bestiary-of-benevolent-monsters-for-5th-edition/" target="_blank">Bestiary of Benevolent Monsters</a></p><p>5e</p><p><strong>Kharonite:</strong> These undead creatures — Hope, Duty, and Love — each swore an oath in life to accomplish a task that went unfulfilled. Now they have sacrificed their afterlife to see the task completed.</p><p><strong>Kharonite Hope:</strong> These undead creatures — Hope, Duty, and Love — each swore an oath in life to accomplish a task that went unfulfilled. Now they have sacrificed their afterlife to see the task completed.</p><p>These creatures are held back from the afterlife by a pressing need in the mortal realm. Their drive in life has captured them in a spectral state. The task may be something small. It could be because they seek a proper burial or something as simple as a message passed along to a treasure loved one. </p><p>Many fear the undead — with good reason — but there are sometimes spirits left behind fettered to tasks or messages undelivered to loved ones. To see and know their family is cared for could be all they need. </p><p><strong>Kharonite Duty:</strong> These undead creatures — Hope, Duty, and Love — each swore an oath in life to accomplish a task that went unfulfilled. Now they have sacrificed their afterlife to see the task completed.</p><p>Those bound in death by duty refuse to leave their mortal bodies. The strongest of these rise again sometime after death and work tirelessly towards a goal. Sadly, the types of things that call a duty into being are rarely something a single individual, even one blessed with unnatural strength and the ability to work without exhaustion, could hope to accomplish. </p><p>Duty, as the name suggests, cares not for personal glory but for a purpose. There is a mission — protect a family against a specific threat, erect a new temple to an old (or new) god, or similarly singular objective. </p><p><strong>Kharonite Love:</strong> These undead creatures — Hope, Duty, and Love — each swore an oath in life to accomplish a task that went unfulfilled. Now they have sacrificed their afterlife to see the task completed.</p><p>Those whose hearts are pure and devotion strong are willing to forgo the pleasantries and bountiful rewards of an afterlife in pursuit of the destruction of evil and a the completion of a powerful quest. </p><p><strong>Kharonite, Benevolent Undead, Positively Aligned Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kharonite, Monstrosity, Wayward Warrior of the Ancient World:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kharonite Hope, Undead Spirit Akin to a Ghost But Without Malevolence, Spectral Creature, Good Aligned Undead That Exists to Perform a Task:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kharonite Duty, Good Aligned Undead That Exists to Perform a Specific Mission:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kharonite Love, Potent Magic User, Divinely-Inspired Spellcaster, Extremely Powerful Undead, Good Aligned Undead That Exists to Perform a Specific Mission:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie Golden Chimera:</strong> The [golden] chimera suffers from a zombie curse. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) checks can stabilize the golden chimera’s condition. Checks can be made once each day, and the DC increases by one every 24 hours. If a check fails, the chimera dies and reanimates as a zombie in 1d4 rounds with the following adjustments: +1 Strength, +2 Constitution, -6 Intelligence, -4 Wisdom, -4 Charisma. It gains the Undead Fortitude trait, gaining immunity to poison damage, immunity to being poisoned, darkvision 60 ft., and loses the ability to speak but understands the languages it knew in life. </p><p><strong>Basic Zombie:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9190719, member: 2209"] [URL=https://nerdarchy.com/product/bestiary-of-benevolent-monsters-for-5th-edition/]Bestiary of Benevolent Monsters[/URL] 5e [b]Kharonite:[/b] These undead creatures — Hope, Duty, and Love — each swore an oath in life to accomplish a task that went unfulfilled. Now they have sacrificed their afterlife to see the task completed. [b]Kharonite Hope:[/b] These undead creatures — Hope, Duty, and Love — each swore an oath in life to accomplish a task that went unfulfilled. Now they have sacrificed their afterlife to see the task completed. These creatures are held back from the afterlife by a pressing need in the mortal realm. Their drive in life has captured them in a spectral state. The task may be something small. It could be because they seek a proper burial or something as simple as a message passed along to a treasure loved one. Many fear the undead — with good reason — but there are sometimes spirits left behind fettered to tasks or messages undelivered to loved ones. To see and know their family is cared for could be all they need. [b]Kharonite Duty:[/b] These undead creatures — Hope, Duty, and Love — each swore an oath in life to accomplish a task that went unfulfilled. Now they have sacrificed their afterlife to see the task completed. Those bound in death by duty refuse to leave their mortal bodies. The strongest of these rise again sometime after death and work tirelessly towards a goal. Sadly, the types of things that call a duty into being are rarely something a single individual, even one blessed with unnatural strength and the ability to work without exhaustion, could hope to accomplish. Duty, as the name suggests, cares not for personal glory but for a purpose. There is a mission — protect a family against a specific threat, erect a new temple to an old (or new) god, or similarly singular objective. [b]Kharonite Love:[/b] These undead creatures — Hope, Duty, and Love — each swore an oath in life to accomplish a task that went unfulfilled. Now they have sacrificed their afterlife to see the task completed. Those whose hearts are pure and devotion strong are willing to forgo the pleasantries and bountiful rewards of an afterlife in pursuit of the destruction of evil and a the completion of a powerful quest. [b]Kharonite, Benevolent Undead, Positively Aligned Undead:[/b] ? [b]Kharonite, Monstrosity, Wayward Warrior of the Ancient World:[/b] ? [b]Kharonite Hope, Undead Spirit Akin to a Ghost But Without Malevolence, Spectral Creature, Good Aligned Undead That Exists to Perform a Task:[/b] ? [b]Kharonite Duty, Good Aligned Undead That Exists to Perform a Specific Mission:[/b] ? [b]Kharonite Love, Potent Magic User, Divinely-Inspired Spellcaster, Extremely Powerful Undead, Good Aligned Undead That Exists to Perform a Specific Mission:[/b] ? [b]Undead, Undead Creature:[/b] ? [b]Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Zombie Golden Chimera:[/b] The [golden] chimera suffers from a zombie curse. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) checks can stabilize the golden chimera’s condition. Checks can be made once each day, and the DC increases by one every 24 hours. If a check fails, the chimera dies and reanimates as a zombie in 1d4 rounds with the following adjustments: +1 Strength, +2 Constitution, -6 Intelligence, -4 Wisdom, -4 Charisma. It gains the Undead Fortitude trait, gaining immunity to poison damage, immunity to being poisoned, darkvision 60 ft., and loses the ability to speak but understands the languages it knew in life. [b]Basic Zombie:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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