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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9221499" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/warlock-lair-41-song-undying/" target="_blank">Warlock Lair 41: Song Undying</a>5eVirtuoso Lich: A virtuoso lich is an artist whose love of art sustains it beyond death. Birthed By Art. A virtuoso lich is created when an artist powerful in both its artistic and magical expression dies with art left undone. Such artists often die before completing or creating a masterpiece and the torment of the art left undone couples with the artist’s powerful magical talents, turning the artist into a virtuoso lich. A virtuoso lich is bound to an object of art, such as a favorite musical instrument, painting, dance slippers, quill, or some other object of artistic expression that was significant to the lich in life. This piece of art is the lich’s phylactery. Virtuoso Lich, Artist: ?Virtuoso Lich, Beautiful Singer: ?Salamondre Vacarro, Virtuoso Lich, Undying Menace: I once traveled with Salamondre Vacarro, the famous dirgist. I was with him when he recovered a relic known as the Thrice-Cursed Heart. It is a jeweled egg, cunningly crafted, with hinged doors and a golden center. He has spent several years studying this object, learning to tap its powers. However, I have discovered that this relic is corrupt, and, in handling it, Salamondre has also become corrupted. This new religion of his, the Song Undying, is a lie. The dead he has supposedly returned to life, the sick he claims to have healed, are all twisted by the power of the Heart. They are not alive, but undead! Salamondre is one of them as well, but he is more powerful. Bonded to the cursed object as he is, he truly is undying. Undead, Undead Creature: While the Heart can restore the flesh, it can’t restore the spirit and instead fills people with dark energies, raising the dead into undeath or slowly converting the living. All these undead are beholden to the Heart, and thus to Salamondre, as it has become his phylactery. However, I have discovered that this relic is corrupt, and, in handling it, Salamondre has also become corrupted. This new religion of his, the Song Undying, is a lie. The dead he has supposedly returned to life, the sick he claims to have healed, are all twisted by the power of the Heart. They are not alive, but undead! When Salamondre performed the funerary dirge for their fallen companions, the Heart awakened and bound itself to the bard, embracing and nurturing the conflict and fear growing within Salamondre. As it awakened, it slowly and subtly changed Salamondre’s form into the undying menace that leads the Song Undying cult. When its power changed his form, the Heart’s own form changed to become his phylactery, the housing for what remained of his corrupted soul. These cells are used by those that have fully converted to the worship of the Song Undying. They have either been fully restored from death or fully corrupted from the living, and they are all devoted undead servants to Salamondre. This room is used for purification ceremonies. Salamondre anoints the chosen ones who have been deemed ready to join him in the inner sanctum, where they learn the mysteries of the Song Undying and become one of the Choral Adherents. This anointing means they have been chosen to be corrupted by the Thrice-Cursed Heart and slowly turned into undead under Salamondre’s control. Now, the Heart amplifies and feeds Salamondre’s fear of death by slowly changing those near it into undead with some memories of their former lives—corrupted and lesser versions of Salamondre’s new undead form. Hollow One: The hollow ones are the dead that Salamondre has begun to bring back with the Heart’s help, but their bodies are not yet complete. He has given them their lungs, tongues, and vocal cords so they may participate in the choir, but they have little else. Each is covered in a shell of skin that gives a human appearance, which is easily torn away to reveal the undead creature beneath it. Undead Cultist, Obedient Undead Servant, Devoted Undead Servant, Adherent, Undead Minion: ?Darakhul: ?Ghast: ?Ghoul: ?Skeleton: ?Zombie: ?</blockquote>

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