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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9712943" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/63885/The-Darkest-Hour?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">The Darkest Hour</a></p><p>Fantasy Craft</p><p><strong>Grave Wurm, The Harbinger of the Dead, Bloated White Worm, Creation of Ancient Evil Forces Made Flesh, Monstrous Thing, Slave, Disgusting and Bloated White Worm the Size of a Horse-Drawn Wagon, Great White Worm, Immense Scavenging Beast:</strong> The Grave Wurm exists to serve the Soul Star’s owner. It has no true will of its own, being a creation of ancient evil forces made flesh.</p><p>Master and Wiltweevil broke the tomb’s ancient seals and found the Star. They used it to raise the harbinger of the dead, a monstrous thing called the Grave Wurm, and set it about its foul business.</p><p><strong>Ravener:</strong> Unlike a zombie, a ravener’s condition isn’t spread as an infection, though party members may not realize this when they first encounter the creatures.</p><p>When a character dies in the Grave Wurm’s gullet, or the Grave Wurm swallows a corpse, the beast’s vile digestive tract takes over, converting the victim into a ravener; the process takes 5 rounds, after which the new ravener is unceremoniously expelled from the Wurm’s posterior; the Wurm can process up to 6 victims at a time.</p><p>Master had no interest in Paschel but rather wanted something buried with the hero — a necromantic artifact called the Soul Star, which has the power to animate and control the dead.</p><p>Master and Wiltweevil broke the tomb’s ancient seals and found the Star. They used it to raise the harbinger of the dead, a monstrous thing called the Grave Wurm, and set it about its foul business. The Wurm consumed corpses and expelled a form of walking dead called ‘raveners,’ and through the Star Master controlled them all.</p><p>This fist-sized, multi-faceted amethyst is shaped like a four-pointed star and set in a silver medallion. Its [the soul star's] origins have washed out over history but a few know its power. It can be used to summon the Grave Wurm, which animates the dead in service to the artifact’s owner. Unfortunately, it does this by sapping the owner’s strength of will — his Wisdom — which in turn makes it harder to resist the Star’s influence. Eventually the owner becomes the owned, a slave to the Soul Star with no goals of his own except spreading its undeath across the whole of the world.</p><p>The Grave Wurm: A disgusting and bloated white worm the size of a horse-drawn wagon. It’s a slave to the Soul Star, compelled to seek out and consume bodies, expelling them as raveners under control of the artifact’s owner.</p><p>On the power of the thing Guichard is vague and I suspect he has no real experience with it. Montoni, however, describes plainly an experience with the Soul Star and while his writings smack of tenuous sanity his discussion of a great white worm in service to the Soul Star cannot be entirely discounted. Apparently this worm creates ravening undead fiends of both speed and cunning — not the best news, as this is borne out in the legend from Hondel.</p><p>The undead in Andra do not spawn from mere death.</p><p><strong>Ravener, Crazed Undead Creature, Walking Dead, Zombie, Deader, Ravening Undead Fiend of Both Speed and Cunning:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ambitious Ravener:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie, Typical Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Animated Corpse:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Disquiet Corpse:</strong> ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9712943, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/63885/The-Darkest-Hour?affiliate_id=17596]The Darkest Hour[/URL] Fantasy Craft [B]Grave Wurm, The Harbinger of the Dead, Bloated White Worm, Creation of Ancient Evil Forces Made Flesh, Monstrous Thing, Slave, Disgusting and Bloated White Worm the Size of a Horse-Drawn Wagon, Great White Worm, Immense Scavenging Beast:[/B] The Grave Wurm exists to serve the Soul Star’s owner. It has no true will of its own, being a creation of ancient evil forces made flesh. Master and Wiltweevil broke the tomb’s ancient seals and found the Star. They used it to raise the harbinger of the dead, a monstrous thing called the Grave Wurm, and set it about its foul business. [B]Ravener:[/B] Unlike a zombie, a ravener’s condition isn’t spread as an infection, though party members may not realize this when they first encounter the creatures. When a character dies in the Grave Wurm’s gullet, or the Grave Wurm swallows a corpse, the beast’s vile digestive tract takes over, converting the victim into a ravener; the process takes 5 rounds, after which the new ravener is unceremoniously expelled from the Wurm’s posterior; the Wurm can process up to 6 victims at a time. Master had no interest in Paschel but rather wanted something buried with the hero — a necromantic artifact called the Soul Star, which has the power to animate and control the dead. Master and Wiltweevil broke the tomb’s ancient seals and found the Star. They used it to raise the harbinger of the dead, a monstrous thing called the Grave Wurm, and set it about its foul business. The Wurm consumed corpses and expelled a form of walking dead called ‘raveners,’ and through the Star Master controlled them all. This fist-sized, multi-faceted amethyst is shaped like a four-pointed star and set in a silver medallion. Its [the soul star's] origins have washed out over history but a few know its power. It can be used to summon the Grave Wurm, which animates the dead in service to the artifact’s owner. Unfortunately, it does this by sapping the owner’s strength of will — his Wisdom — which in turn makes it harder to resist the Star’s influence. Eventually the owner becomes the owned, a slave to the Soul Star with no goals of his own except spreading its undeath across the whole of the world. The Grave Wurm: A disgusting and bloated white worm the size of a horse-drawn wagon. It’s a slave to the Soul Star, compelled to seek out and consume bodies, expelling them as raveners under control of the artifact’s owner. On the power of the thing Guichard is vague and I suspect he has no real experience with it. Montoni, however, describes plainly an experience with the Soul Star and while his writings smack of tenuous sanity his discussion of a great white worm in service to the Soul Star cannot be entirely discounted. Apparently this worm creates ravening undead fiends of both speed and cunning — not the best news, as this is borne out in the legend from Hondel. The undead in Andra do not spawn from mere death. [B]Ravener, Crazed Undead Creature, Walking Dead, Zombie, Deader, Ravening Undead Fiend of Both Speed and Cunning:[/B] ? [B]Ambitious Ravener:[/B] ? [B]Zombie, Typical Zombie:[/B] ? [B]Undead:[/B] ? [B]Ghost:[/B] ? [B]Animated Corpse:[/B] ? [B]Disquiet Corpse:[/B] ? [/QUOTE]
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