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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9647095" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://greyhawkonline.com/OerthJournal/" target="_blank">Oerth Journal 17</a></p><p>3.5</p><p><strong>Skulltwister:</strong> The skulltwisters origins date back to many millennia ago when the clerics of the dread god, Tharizdun first came into opposition with the other gods of Oerth. The skulltwister was formed from the dark entropy of the Abyss, the larcenous vileness of the Nine Hells, and the vast emptiness of the Gray Wastes. All these energies were focused by 13 clerics of Tharizdun in a day long ritual. The clerics formed these volatile energies into a solid form on the Plane of Shadow, then gave it sentience by infusing the spirit of a nightshade.</p><p><strong>Skulltwister, Champion of the Powers of Darkness, Abyssal Menace, Humanoid-Looking Horror With Great Ragged Wings Viscous Tusks a Bladed Prehensile Tail and Ragged Leathery Flesh That Ebbs With a Shadowy-Essence:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Non-Corporeal Undead:</strong> Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league.</p><p><strong>Banshee:</strong> Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league.</p><p><strong>Sword Wraith:</strong> Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league.</p><p><strong>Vecna, Whispered One, Most Infamous Lich:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Nightshade:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Shadow:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Greater Shadow:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Aisula, Vampire Goddess, Vampiric Wife, Wife, Goddess of Death and Rebirth, Euroz Deity, Vampire, Vampire Euroz:</strong> While traveling the planes in search of adventure and another lover, Aisula met and seduced a young god, who unknown to her was a vampire deity. He eventually turned upon her and they fought. Who this god was she will not say, but it is rumored to be Kas the Destroyer. Needless to say, Aisula suffered grievous wounds. She barely made it home to Luthic’s doorstep before she succumbed to her wounds and died, only to rise again as a vampire euroz.</p><p><strong>Vampire Deity:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Kas the Destroyer, Vampire Deity:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Dread Wraith:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9647095, member: 2209"] [URL=https://greyhawkonline.com/OerthJournal/]Oerth Journal 17[/URL] 3.5 [b]Skulltwister:[/b] The skulltwisters origins date back to many millennia ago when the clerics of the dread god, Tharizdun first came into opposition with the other gods of Oerth. The skulltwister was formed from the dark entropy of the Abyss, the larcenous vileness of the Nine Hells, and the vast emptiness of the Gray Wastes. All these energies were focused by 13 clerics of Tharizdun in a day long ritual. The clerics formed these volatile energies into a solid form on the Plane of Shadow, then gave it sentience by infusing the spirit of a nightshade. [b]Skulltwister, Champion of the Powers of Darkness, Abyssal Menace, Humanoid-Looking Horror With Great Ragged Wings Viscous Tusks a Bladed Prehensile Tail and Ragged Leathery Flesh That Ebbs With a Shadowy-Essence:[/b] ? [b]Undead:[/b] ? [b]Non-Corporeal Undead:[/b] Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league. [b]Banshee:[/b] Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league. [b]Sword Wraith:[/b] Just before the last redoubt of the fort was being stormed, a priest of Hextor among the garrison used a strange metal rod engraved with ancient Flannae glyphs that he found in an ancient chamber under the keep in a desperate act of retribution. The magical holocaust that followed consumed the bodies of both defenders and attackers and condemned their souls to undeath. Most became sword wraiths, though other forms of non-corporeal undead, including a banshee (formerly the elven Sunndian commander), stalk the keep and its hinterland for a radius of a league. [b]Vecna, Whispered One, Most Infamous Lich:[/b] ? [b]Ghoul:[/b] ? [b]Nightshade:[/b] ? [b]Shadow:[/b] ? [b]Greater Shadow:[/b] ? [b]Aisula, Vampire Goddess, Vampiric Wife, Wife, Goddess of Death and Rebirth, Euroz Deity, Vampire, Vampire Euroz:[/b] While traveling the planes in search of adventure and another lover, Aisula met and seduced a young god, who unknown to her was a vampire deity. He eventually turned upon her and they fought. Who this god was she will not say, but it is rumored to be Kas the Destroyer. Needless to say, Aisula suffered grievous wounds. She barely made it home to Luthic’s doorstep before she succumbed to her wounds and died, only to rise again as a vampire euroz. [b]Vampire Deity:[/b] ? [b]Kas the Destroyer, Vampire Deity:[/b] ? [b]Wraith:[/b] ? [b]Dread Wraith:[/b] ? [/QUOTE]
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