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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9258221" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ADGrWgHWw2I1lOE&cid=F37EC70FCAA9A25C&id=F37EC70FCAA9A25C%211712&parId=F37EC70FCAA9A25C%211641&o=OneUp" target="_blank">P3 Conversion</a></p><p>4e</p><p><strong>Beldan, Visage, Monstrosity, Priest:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Visage Spawn:</strong> When [Beldan] the visage kills a humanoid, that humanoid becomes a visage spawn at the start of this visage's next turn. The new visage appears in the space where the humanoid died or in the nearest unoccupied square, and it rolls a new initiative check.</p><p>When [Olisk Carradh] the visage kills a humanoid, that humanoid becomes a visage spawn at the start of this visage's next turn. The new visage appears in the space where the humanoid died or in the nearest unoccupied square, and it rolls a new initiative check.</p><p>When the visage kills a humanoid, that humanoid becomes a visage spawn at the start of this visage's next turn. The new visage appears in the space where the humanoid died or in the nearest unoccupied square, and it rolls a new initiative check.</p><p>Any humanoid killed by a visage [spawns] a new visage under the former visage’s control.</p><p><strong>Sword Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Isilus Barrowmere, Ilyana of the Charnel Fangs, Visage Master, Murderer, Killer:</strong> He is a visage master as he was the first visage being created from the Well of Souls.</p><p>I am, or rather was Isilus Barrowmere, the first son of Cauldrus Barrowmere, after he sacrificed my soul to the Blood Lord to have me back from the dead.</p><p>When Isilus, his first born child fell ill to the point Cauldrus realized he would also lose him to the family curse, he turned to the Blood Lord. Orcus answered his prayers and gave him visions in his dreams how he could turn his dying son into a living–undead hybrid, removing all mortal frailty from his body without succumbing to the messy path of lichdom.</p><p>Cauldrus became the willing tool of the Blood Lord, and absorbed himself in the task of finding the Secret of Sartine and save his first born. Since then he has shown very little interest in the rest of his family, caring only for his quest to save his child. In the end he succeeded. He used his necromantic powers to pervert the Keepers of Gloomwrought who showed him the portal to the Fortress of the Souls. Together with the shadow dragon Urishtar he turned his newfound knowledge to capture the life energy of Isilus when he died. By diverting the life energy from its proper fate, Orcus gave him his son back as a Visage with all his memories of his former life.</p><p>Izran Barrowmere is the youngest scion of the Barrowmere family. His twin brother, Isilus, suffered from numerous health problems and one day fell ill with a hacking cough. Their father and patriarch, Cauldrus Barrowmere, took the sick boy away for treatment, but Isilus was declared dead shortly thereafter. In the weeks that followed, Cauldrus locked himself in his study, answering no one, until he re-emerged with Isilus by his side - alive and well, but somehow changed. Izran suspected his father of using his twin’s life force in his necromantic experiments, and when confronted, Cauldrus claimed that Isilus transcended from his mortal shell into becoming something higher, something to aspire to.</p><p><strong>Lord Olisk Carradh, Visage, Servant of Orcus, Real Threat:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadowmare:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mauglurien the Black Dragon, Mauglurien of the Ebon Riders, Death Knight Dwarf Warlord, Undead Dwarf, Dwarf Warlord, Mighty Dwarf Warlord, Savage Bloodthirsty Remorseless Fighter, Black Dwarven Knight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darkpact Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shambling Mummy, Undead Shambling Mummy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Umberfell Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Elder Earthquake Dragon:</strong> Before the adventurers can reach the tower, they have to get past the guards – two dragons that have undergone Barrowmere’s vile experiments, leaving them in a constant pain and somewhere between life and undeath.</p><p>Cauldrus has left his creations to guard the stone catwalks leading to the Tower of Undeath, He hopes that the elemental nature of the catastrophic dragons insulates them from the degeneration caused by a series of undead grafts, and he is waiting to see the results after the dragons starve to death.</p><p>The dragons are still alive, but due to the Barrowmere patriarch’s experiments, they count as both living and undead for the purpose of powers and abilities that affect creatures of either sort.</p><p><strong>Elder Earthquake Dragon, Guard, Dragon That Has Undergone Barrowmere's Vile Experiments, Creation, Catastrophic Dragon, Snarling Dragon:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Elder Volcanic Dragon:</strong> Before the adventurers can reach the tower, they have to get past the guards – two dragons that have undergone Barrowmere’s vile experiments, leaving them in a constant pain and somewhere between life and undeath.</p><p>Cauldrus has left his creations to guard the stone catwalks leading to the Tower of Undeath, He hopes that the elemental nature of the catastrophic dragons insulates them from the degeneration caused by a series of undead grafts, and he is waiting to see the results after the dragons starve to death.</p><p>The dragons are still alive, but due to the Barrowmere patriarch’s experiments, they count as both living and undead for the purpose of powers and abilities that affect creatures of either sort.</p><p><strong>Elder Volcanic Dragon, Guard, Dragon That Has Undergone Barrowmere's Vile Experiments, Creation, Catastrophic Dragon, Snarling Dragon:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Cauldrus Barrowmere:</strong> Driven by the new lore he has gathered from the Nightwyrm Fortress and his discussions with the shadow dragon, Cauldrus unholy experiments to meld the living with the dead have taken a new dark path. Cauldrus have literally gone insane, trying to turn himself into the creature he worship – Urishtar the Shadow Dragon. He has melded his body with that of a dead dragon.</p><p><strong>Visage:</strong> Ibramin, the high priest of Ioun answers, "I have been receiving reports from our followers all around, and they all tell the same story. There are something wrong with the order of life and death. While some report that people that have died cannot be brought back to life with rituals, others tell stories of relatives that have died that returns. But not alive, but as terrible visages having their own dark agenda in infiltrating the world of the living. I therefore ordered some research on these terrible creatures."</p><p>"The visage is an undead creature of deception that steals the identity of its victims to further its master’s aims. The first visages were formed from the spirits of demons by Orcus - Demon Price of Undead, while he had assumed the identity of Tenebrous. When he reassumed his true identity and mantle, Orcus turned his back on his creation and many thought that to be the end of these undead creatures. But now they are returning in great numbers, not fuelled by demons, but with the souls of our loved ones. What their purpose and plan is, we do not know. But it is ill tidings, ill tidings indeed."</p><p>The first visages were formed from the spirits of demons by Orcus, Demon Price of Undead, while he had assumed the identity of Tenebrous.</p><p>When [Isilus] the visage master kills a humanoid, that humanoid becomes a visage at the start of this visage master's next turn. The new visage appears in the space where the humanoid died or in the nearest unoccupied square, and it rolls a new initiative check.</p><p><strong>Visage Master:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Draconic Wraith Souleater:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Rot Harbinger:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Draconic Wraith:</strong> Then she created draconic wra[it]hs out of the vilest portion of dragon’s souls she captured in the Well of Souls, and set them with the task to capture even more souls into the well.</p><p><strong>Abyssal Ghoul Hungerer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Slaughter Wight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Draconic Wraith Soulravager:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Abyssal Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Boneclaw:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Xenro, Blackfire Dracolich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Nightwalker:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Immolith Inferno:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Sage Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Magrathar, Larva Mage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Draconic Wraith Soulbinder:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Free-Willed Sword Wraith:</strong> Any humanoid killed by the sword wraith rises as a free-willed sword wraith at the start of its creator’s next turn, appearing in the space where it died, or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied.</p><p><strong>Shadowmare, Large Shadow Creature, Undead Horse, Mount:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Darkpact Ghoul, Hungry Undead, Foul Inhabitant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shambling Mummy, Foul Inhabitant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Visage, Undead Creature of Deception, Creation, Strange Servant of Orcus, Terrible Creature, Servant of Orcus:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Terrible Visage:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Visage Spy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> "I would not walk the city streets after night. There are rumors of undead prowling the streets in the night. Some claim it is the old House of Barrowmore that are growing in influence, but I am not so sure. I think it is some dark power trying to wake the dead in the Graveyard."</p><p>Rumor suggests that the Ebon Riders are dedicated to evil gods. Numerous leaders among them [are] undead-possibly even Mauglurien-and the knights and mounts of the group are known to reanimate as undead after falling on the battlefield.</p><p>The Barrowmeres have been creating and storing undead beneath the manor grounds for centuries.</p><p><strong>Undead Memory of Nerull:</strong> Nerull was dead, but a god could not be that easily killed. Even though the Raven Queen had gone through great effort to cleanse the living world of the memories of the old God of the Dead. His loyal underlings had all been slain by the fury of the new Queen of Death. Their few remaining bones still lay about in the shadow-filled throne room. But as long as a single living soul still bore the memory of Nerull, the memory of the god would exist – his husk floating in the astral sea as a reflection of that memory. And as long as that dead husk existed, it could be given a form of undeath, awaken by the dark necrotic powers of the Prince of Undeath.</p><p>Orcus called out in dark syllables not meant for speaking. Terrible words of power, that tore into the memory of Nerull, twisting it, perverting it, awakening it for just a brief moment of servitude to the Prince of Undeath, but that was enough.</p><p>“I call upon you Nerull, God of the Dead, Hater of Life, Reaper of Flesh, I command you to unlife, I command you to service. Because I am Orcus, the Demon Prince of Undeath, and you are my servant!” his voice rang out and the ground trembled.</p><p><strong>Undead Horror:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Servant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Less Intelligent Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Graft:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Barrowmere Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shonvurru the Blood Serpent, Undead Marilith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Death Knight:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost of Sartine's Mother, Elderly Woman:</strong> When Sartine had killed Nerull she needed to cover her tracks. She understood that what she had done with the souls – consuming them to fuel her own ambitions – would bring all the other gods against her.</p><p>She purged the world of her true name and took to calling herself the Raven Queen. She fed all the souls that had witnessed her doings in Pluton to the Well of Souls. But she could not bear herself to kill all the inhabitants of Gloomwrought – her own people. Instead she gave the soulless Keeper’s the task to feed on the memories of herself and guard the only entrance to the Fortress of the Souls in Gloomwrought.</p><p>She even wiped out all her own knowledge of what she had done, and made it impossible to enter the Fortress of the Souls if you were actively seeking it.</p><p>But she left one thing behind. She could not watch her mother lose all the knowledge of her daughter and what she had achieved. As her mother died shortly after her own ascension, from the grief of the loss of her daughter, she took the body and the soul of her mother and tied it to her own crypt under Umberfell Manor. Her mother’s soul was allowed to live on as a ghost, but confined to the crypt.</p><p>I had died from grief soon after my daughter’s death, and the fall of the House of Umberfell. But she brought the corpse to this crypt and bound my soul in undeath, no more than a ghost with a memory of her true past.</p><p><strong>Elder Arantham, Huecuva, Divinely Empowered Undead, Undead Priest, Exarch:</strong> Elder Arantham was once a high priest in Bahamut's church, but after a mysterious crisis of fate, he turned to Orcus. He is a rare form of divinely empowered undead known as a huecuva, which he became to purposely shed his humanity.</p><p><strong>Ghovran Akti the Planeweaver, Lich, Eladrin Necromancer, Combat Magic Specialist, Powerful Eladrin Mage, Member of the Ebon Riders, Known Necromancer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Huge Dracolich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Revenant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Irmeth the Butler, Revenant Butler:</strong> The Umberfell’s revenant butler, he asserts that the Raven Queen returned him from death to serve House Umberfell.</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Servant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire Guard:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Teliko, Grandmaster of Shadows, Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ilyana, Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vecna, The Maimed God, Lord of Secrets, The Keeper of Secrets, God of Secrets, God of the Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wight:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9258221, member: 2209"] [URL='https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ADGrWgHWw2I1lOE&cid=F37EC70FCAA9A25C&id=F37EC70FCAA9A25C%211712&parId=F37EC70FCAA9A25C%211641&o=OneUp']P3 Conversion[/URL] 4e [B]Beldan, Visage, Monstrosity, Priest:[/B] ? [B]Visage Spawn:[/B] When [Beldan] the visage kills a humanoid, that humanoid becomes a visage spawn at the start of this visage's next turn. The new visage appears in the space where the humanoid died or in the nearest unoccupied square, and it rolls a new initiative check. When [Olisk Carradh] the visage kills a humanoid, that humanoid becomes a visage spawn at the start of this visage's next turn. The new visage appears in the space where the humanoid died or in the nearest unoccupied square, and it rolls a new initiative check. When the visage kills a humanoid, that humanoid becomes a visage spawn at the start of this visage's next turn. The new visage appears in the space where the humanoid died or in the nearest unoccupied square, and it rolls a new initiative check. Any humanoid killed by a visage [spawns] a new visage under the former visage’s control. [B]Sword Wraith:[/B] ? [B]Isilus Barrowmere, Ilyana of the Charnel Fangs, Visage Master, Murderer, Killer:[/B] He is a visage master as he was the first visage being created from the Well of Souls. I am, or rather was Isilus Barrowmere, the first son of Cauldrus Barrowmere, after he sacrificed my soul to the Blood Lord to have me back from the dead. When Isilus, his first born child fell ill to the point Cauldrus realized he would also lose him to the family curse, he turned to the Blood Lord. Orcus answered his prayers and gave him visions in his dreams how he could turn his dying son into a living–undead hybrid, removing all mortal frailty from his body without succumbing to the messy path of lichdom. Cauldrus became the willing tool of the Blood Lord, and absorbed himself in the task of finding the Secret of Sartine and save his first born. Since then he has shown very little interest in the rest of his family, caring only for his quest to save his child. In the end he succeeded. He used his necromantic powers to pervert the Keepers of Gloomwrought who showed him the portal to the Fortress of the Souls. Together with the shadow dragon Urishtar he turned his newfound knowledge to capture the life energy of Isilus when he died. By diverting the life energy from its proper fate, Orcus gave him his son back as a Visage with all his memories of his former life. Izran Barrowmere is the youngest scion of the Barrowmere family. His twin brother, Isilus, suffered from numerous health problems and one day fell ill with a hacking cough. Their father and patriarch, Cauldrus Barrowmere, took the sick boy away for treatment, but Isilus was declared dead shortly thereafter. In the weeks that followed, Cauldrus locked himself in his study, answering no one, until he re-emerged with Isilus by his side - alive and well, but somehow changed. Izran suspected his father of using his twin’s life force in his necromantic experiments, and when confronted, Cauldrus claimed that Isilus transcended from his mortal shell into becoming something higher, something to aspire to. [B]Lord Olisk Carradh, Visage, Servant of Orcus, Real Threat:[/B] ? [B]Shadowmare:[/B] ? [B]Mauglurien the Black Dragon, Mauglurien of the Ebon Riders, Death Knight Dwarf Warlord, Undead Dwarf, Dwarf Warlord, Mighty Dwarf Warlord, Savage Bloodthirsty Remorseless Fighter, Black Dwarven Knight:[/B] ? [B]Darkpact Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Shambling Mummy, Undead Shambling Mummy:[/B] ? [B]Umberfell Vampire:[/B] ? [B]Elder Earthquake Dragon:[/B] Before the adventurers can reach the tower, they have to get past the guards – two dragons that have undergone Barrowmere’s vile experiments, leaving them in a constant pain and somewhere between life and undeath. Cauldrus has left his creations to guard the stone catwalks leading to the Tower of Undeath, He hopes that the elemental nature of the catastrophic dragons insulates them from the degeneration caused by a series of undead grafts, and he is waiting to see the results after the dragons starve to death. The dragons are still alive, but due to the Barrowmere patriarch’s experiments, they count as both living and undead for the purpose of powers and abilities that affect creatures of either sort. [B]Elder Earthquake Dragon, Guard, Dragon That Has Undergone Barrowmere's Vile Experiments, Creation, Catastrophic Dragon, Snarling Dragon:[/B] ? [B]Elder Volcanic Dragon:[/B] Before the adventurers can reach the tower, they have to get past the guards – two dragons that have undergone Barrowmere’s vile experiments, leaving them in a constant pain and somewhere between life and undeath. Cauldrus has left his creations to guard the stone catwalks leading to the Tower of Undeath, He hopes that the elemental nature of the catastrophic dragons insulates them from the degeneration caused by a series of undead grafts, and he is waiting to see the results after the dragons starve to death. The dragons are still alive, but due to the Barrowmere patriarch’s experiments, they count as both living and undead for the purpose of powers and abilities that affect creatures of either sort. [B]Elder Volcanic Dragon, Guard, Dragon That Has Undergone Barrowmere's Vile Experiments, Creation, Catastrophic Dragon, Snarling Dragon:[/B] ? [B]Cauldrus Barrowmere:[/B] Driven by the new lore he has gathered from the Nightwyrm Fortress and his discussions with the shadow dragon, Cauldrus unholy experiments to meld the living with the dead have taken a new dark path. Cauldrus have literally gone insane, trying to turn himself into the creature he worship – Urishtar the Shadow Dragon. He has melded his body with that of a dead dragon. [B]Visage:[/B] Ibramin, the high priest of Ioun answers, "I have been receiving reports from our followers all around, and they all tell the same story. There are something wrong with the order of life and death. While some report that people that have died cannot be brought back to life with rituals, others tell stories of relatives that have died that returns. But not alive, but as terrible visages having their own dark agenda in infiltrating the world of the living. I therefore ordered some research on these terrible creatures." "The visage is an undead creature of deception that steals the identity of its victims to further its master’s aims. The first visages were formed from the spirits of demons by Orcus - Demon Price of Undead, while he had assumed the identity of Tenebrous. When he reassumed his true identity and mantle, Orcus turned his back on his creation and many thought that to be the end of these undead creatures. But now they are returning in great numbers, not fuelled by demons, but with the souls of our loved ones. What their purpose and plan is, we do not know. But it is ill tidings, ill tidings indeed." The first visages were formed from the spirits of demons by Orcus, Demon Price of Undead, while he had assumed the identity of Tenebrous. When [Isilus] the visage master kills a humanoid, that humanoid becomes a visage at the start of this visage master's next turn. The new visage appears in the space where the humanoid died or in the nearest unoccupied square, and it rolls a new initiative check. [B]Visage Master:[/B] ? [B]Draconic Wraith Souleater:[/B] ? [B]Rot Harbinger:[/B] ? [B]Draconic Wraith:[/B] Then she created draconic wra[it]hs out of the vilest portion of dragon’s souls she captured in the Well of Souls, and set them with the task to capture even more souls into the well. [B]Abyssal Ghoul Hungerer:[/B] ? [B]Slaughter Wight:[/B] ? [B]Draconic Wraith Soulravager:[/B] ? [B]Abyssal Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Boneclaw:[/B] ? [B]Xenro, Blackfire Dracolich:[/B] ? [B]Nightwalker:[/B] ? [B]Immolith Inferno:[/B] ? [B]Sage Ghost:[/B] ? [B]Magrathar, Larva Mage:[/B] ? [B]Draconic Wraith Soulbinder:[/B] ? [B]Free-Willed Sword Wraith:[/B] Any humanoid killed by the sword wraith rises as a free-willed sword wraith at the start of its creator’s next turn, appearing in the space where it died, or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied. [B]Shadowmare, Large Shadow Creature, Undead Horse, Mount:[/B] ? [B]Darkpact Ghoul, Hungry Undead, Foul Inhabitant:[/B] ? [B]Shambling Mummy, Foul Inhabitant:[/B] ? [B]Visage, Undead Creature of Deception, Creation, Strange Servant of Orcus, Terrible Creature, Servant of Orcus:[/B] ? [B]Terrible Visage:[/B] ? [B]Visage Spy:[/B] ? [B]Undead, Undead Creature:[/B] "I would not walk the city streets after night. There are rumors of undead prowling the streets in the night. Some claim it is the old House of Barrowmore that are growing in influence, but I am not so sure. I think it is some dark power trying to wake the dead in the Graveyard." Rumor suggests that the Ebon Riders are dedicated to evil gods. Numerous leaders among them [are] undead-possibly even Mauglurien-and the knights and mounts of the group are known to reanimate as undead after falling on the battlefield. The Barrowmeres have been creating and storing undead beneath the manor grounds for centuries. [B]Undead Memory of Nerull:[/B] Nerull was dead, but a god could not be that easily killed. Even though the Raven Queen had gone through great effort to cleanse the living world of the memories of the old God of the Dead. His loyal underlings had all been slain by the fury of the new Queen of Death. Their few remaining bones still lay about in the shadow-filled throne room. But as long as a single living soul still bore the memory of Nerull, the memory of the god would exist – his husk floating in the astral sea as a reflection of that memory. And as long as that dead husk existed, it could be given a form of undeath, awaken by the dark necrotic powers of the Prince of Undeath. Orcus called out in dark syllables not meant for speaking. Terrible words of power, that tore into the memory of Nerull, twisting it, perverting it, awakening it for just a brief moment of servitude to the Prince of Undeath, but that was enough. “I call upon you Nerull, God of the Dead, Hater of Life, Reaper of Flesh, I command you to unlife, I command you to service. Because I am Orcus, the Demon Prince of Undeath, and you are my servant!” his voice rang out and the ground trembled. [B]Undead Horror:[/B] ? [B]Undead Servant:[/B] ? [B]Less Intelligent Undead:[/B] ? [B]Undead Graft:[/B] ? [B]Barrowmere Undead:[/B] ? [B]Shonvurru the Blood Serpent, Undead Marilith:[/B] ? [B]Death Knight:[/B] ? [B]Ghost of Sartine's Mother, Elderly Woman:[/B] When Sartine had killed Nerull she needed to cover her tracks. She understood that what she had done with the souls – consuming them to fuel her own ambitions – would bring all the other gods against her. She purged the world of her true name and took to calling herself the Raven Queen. She fed all the souls that had witnessed her doings in Pluton to the Well of Souls. But she could not bear herself to kill all the inhabitants of Gloomwrought – her own people. Instead she gave the soulless Keeper’s the task to feed on the memories of herself and guard the only entrance to the Fortress of the Souls in Gloomwrought. She even wiped out all her own knowledge of what she had done, and made it impossible to enter the Fortress of the Souls if you were actively seeking it. But she left one thing behind. She could not watch her mother lose all the knowledge of her daughter and what she had achieved. As her mother died shortly after her own ascension, from the grief of the loss of her daughter, she took the body and the soul of her mother and tied it to her own crypt under Umberfell Manor. Her mother’s soul was allowed to live on as a ghost, but confined to the crypt. I had died from grief soon after my daughter’s death, and the fall of the House of Umberfell. But she brought the corpse to this crypt and bound my soul in undeath, no more than a ghost with a memory of her true past. [B]Elder Arantham, Huecuva, Divinely Empowered Undead, Undead Priest, Exarch:[/B] Elder Arantham was once a high priest in Bahamut's church, but after a mysterious crisis of fate, he turned to Orcus. He is a rare form of divinely empowered undead known as a huecuva, which he became to purposely shed his humanity. [B]Ghovran Akti the Planeweaver, Lich, Eladrin Necromancer, Combat Magic Specialist, Powerful Eladrin Mage, Member of the Ebon Riders, Known Necromancer:[/B] ? [B]Huge Dracolich:[/B] ? [B]Lich:[/B] ? [B]Revenant:[/B] ? [B]Irmeth the Butler, Revenant Butler:[/B] The Umberfell’s revenant butler, he asserts that the Raven Queen returned him from death to serve House Umberfell. [B]Vampire:[/B] ? [B]Vampire Servant:[/B] ? [B]Vampire Guard:[/B] ? [B]Teliko, Grandmaster of Shadows, Vampire:[/B] ? [B]Ilyana, Vampire:[/B] ? [B]Vecna, The Maimed God, Lord of Secrets, The Keeper of Secrets, God of Secrets, God of the Undead:[/B] ? [B]Wight:[/B] ? [/QUOTE]
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