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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9814441" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17297/dead-gods-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Dead Gods (2e)</a>2eVisage, Insane Visage, Faithful Visage, Visage Servant: Visages are undead tanar'ri, former servants of Tenebrous brought back by the evil god's influence over all things undead.Despite having been created by a former Abyssal lord, the visages have no place among the tanar'ri.The berks're slaves of the magic that spawned them, and that strikes fear in the dark hearts of the tanar'ri.How many visages did Tenebrous create? No one knows. But if the tanar'ri are so familiar with them, perhaps there are other means of spawning the undead fiends. And perhaps they've been around longer than folks think.He knew he'd need help to regain his former power, but in trying to summon his old servants, Tenebrous discovered that they, too, had been slain by Kiaransalee. So he brought them back to unlife.Tenebrous remembered stirring from his deathlike slumber as a cascade of negative energy had infused his shriveled limbs with dark unlife. He hadn't questioned the strange turn of events that led to his resurrection, but merely clawed his way onto the plane-spanning tree, Yggdrasil, and called to him his closest servants.At that time, of course, Tenebrous hadn't yet realized that his fiendish attendants had been slain in the same conflagration that robbed him of his realm and his life. And yet they still heeded his call. As he had been given life by negative energy, so did Tenebrous use his own power to bestow upon his servants the gift of a second life. Their writhing, undead bodies pleased him, though he knew that their tanar'ric forms would not last. The former Abyssal lord had inadvertently created a new type of being - an undead fiend. Much later, he would call these creatures visages, bless them with special talents, and send them out to gather information.A master of the undead like Tenebrous can even shape inhuman creatures like tanar'ri into undead servants - hence the visages.Visage, Creature of Deception, Nightmarish Fiend of Insidious Power, Undead Tanr'ri, Former Servant of Tenebrous, Wispy Translucent Spirit With a Frightening White Mask Where Their Head Should Be, Undead Fiend, Shadowy Fiendish Creature, Agent, Lesser Evil, Servant, Ghostly Apparition, Mysterious Foe, Undead Servant, Fiend, Ethereal Creature, Ghostly Monster, Ghostly Shape, Figure, Dark Wraith, Useful Spy, Apparition: ?Rennik, Visage: ?Redahl Wim, Visage: ?Constable Nachen Jon, Visage: ?Visage-Guard: ?Visage, Townswoman: ?Rennik, Small Child: ?Visage Guard: ?Visage, Emissary: ?Lovelost Wraith: The Lovelost are spirits of berks who survived the climactic upheavals that long ago destroyed Ranais. While most of the people fled, some were unable to leave in time or simply chose to stay behind and die along with their beloved home. Forced to live the rest of their lives on a ruined world, they eventually passed into the dead-book and now continue to haunt their fallen cities as wraiths.“We are the Lovelost. When this world died, we were forced to live on, without home, without family, without love. Even when we died, we lived on ... and on. And the one who did this to us was Ire whom we had worshiped. He whom we had held above all others.”Lovelost Wraith, Poor Dead Soul: ?Ghoul: Tenebrous created these dreadful, disfigured creatures long ago, and they feed upon the physical forms of sods who're brought here and "freed" of their life force.Ghoul, Minder: ?Ghoul, Dreadful Disfigured Creature, Corpselike Monstrosity: ?Ghoul, Guardian Undead: ?Spectre, Standard Spectre, Full-Strength Spectre: If a group of 10 ghouls is slain [in Tcian Sumere], their spirits merge to form a spectre.One spectre forms from each pack of 10 ghouls slain [in Tcian Sumere].Those drained completely of levels become full-strength spectres.If the heroes destroy all 10 ghouls in a particular area, the essences of the slain creatures leave their physical bodies and join together before the PCs' eyes. They form a single entity identical in appearance and ability to a spectre, which attacks the cutters with wailing fury.Kestod, Drow Vampire, Undead Drow, Undead Berk, Ancient Drow, Elvish Creature: See, Kestod's a vampire. Long ago, when he was an ordinary mortal, he was brought from the Prime to serve Kiaransalee. When the drow goddess deposed Orcus and took over Thanatos, she commanded two of her servants - Kestod and one other - to hide the Wand of Orcus where it would never be found. After the pair returned from their task, Kiaransalee drowned them both in the River Styx, robbing them of their memories so they could never reveal the wand's location.Time passed, and eventually Kestod was brought back into Kiaransalee's service - this time as a vampire, with little or no memory of his former life.How did Kestod remember anything about Erehe after being drowned in the Styx? Simple - he didn't. His chant about the other drow is something he picked up after Kiaransalee brought him back as a vampire.Ghast: ?Ghast, Guardian Undead: ?The Wraithworm, Original Wraithworm, Serpent at Least 35 Feet Long, Guardian, Snakelike Creature: The mysterious former residents of Pelion created it to serve as a guardian, and all wraithworms in existence are its offspring.The snakelike creature is the wraithworm, a monster created by the former inhabitants of the spire.Wraithworm: ?Skeleton: Stony, earth-covered undead, animated with foul necromantic energies, rise from the ground and move toward you, their malicious intent quite obvious.Skeleton, Stony Earth-Covered Undead: ?Tenebrous, Orcus, Primus, Power, Undead God, Thin Small Shadowy Creature, God, Undead Lord, Former Ruler, Shadowy Undead Lord, Evil God, Former Abyssal Lord, Deity, Abyssal Lord, Fiend, Great Wicked Presence, Presence of Godlike Power and Ineffable Evil, Something Foul, Strange Presence, Fiend, Great Evil, Withered Shadowy Form, Evil Undead Power, Undead Deity, Master of Undead, Fallen Power Come Back From the Dead, Undead Tanar'ri Lord, Undead Power, Mighty Being, Speaker, Blasphemous Villain, Intruder, Invader, Blasphemer, Thing of Darkness, Invader of the Midnight Desert, Dark Thing, Ineffable Darkness, Great Lord of the Infinite Pit, Master, Patron, Creator, Shadowy Form, Ethereal Figure, Patron God, Powerful Evil Deity, Former Ruler, Former Master, Presence, Dark Shadow, Shadow, Dark Shape, Murderous God: Forces - possibly inadvertent, possibly not - conspired to bring the dead god back.Who knows how it all came together? Who knows the true dark of such things? Somehow, a dead power was given another chance to right the wrongs committed against him.But even when revived from his deathlike slumber, Orcus still wasn't truly restored to life. His new existence more closely mirrored that of the undead over which he'd once ruled. He'd become an undead god.But when Tenebrous stepped onto the branch, he was fairly dripping with rancid negative energy - the force that had revived him from his supposedly eternal slumber.Much had happened since he escaped from the Silver Void, since he was reborn into this semblance of life and godhood. How had it all begun? Tenebrous remembered stirring from his deathlike slumber as a cascade of negative energy had infused his shriveled limbs with dark unlife. He hadn't questioned the strange turn of events that led to his resurrection, but merely clawed his way onto the plane-spanning tree, Yggdrasil, and called to him his closest servants.Rotting Jack, Undead Babau, Proxy, Fiend, Undead Follower: ?Undead, Undead Creature: This chamber, holy in the eyes of those devoted to Tenebrous, is used to create undead.Even before you notice this room's contents, you sense something immediately disturbing - there's just an evil aura about the place. Long stone tables occupy the center of the chamber, stained with dark dribbles of something foul. Shelves along the walls hold all manner of jars, bottles, and flasks, some filled with liquids and syrups of nauseating colors andconsistencies. Here and there, the line of containers is interrupred by a large, dusty tome. Lastly, along, low table near the back displays a number of silvery metallic tools and instruments with purposes that seem better left unknown.The workroom has a slight amount of gravity – just enough to keep things in place. It's the area where corpses are treated with all manner of necromantic unguents, loathsome procedures, and repugnant spells to tum them into undead creatures.Most of the books on the shelves detail the anatomy of various races and creatures, all from a magical or necromantic point of view. A few contain formulae and procedures for preparing corpses, mummification, and undead animation.Undead Resident: ?Undead Follower: ?Undead Spirit: ?Undead Cutter: ?Guardian Undead: ?Vengeful Ghost: ?Howling Spirit: ?Ghost of a Forgotten God: ?Ghost: ?Acererak, Lich: ?Anarchocles, Skeleton Warrior: Long ago, Orcus trapped the spirit of a mighty basher named Anarchocles within the circlet. Whoever wore the band gained the power to control the actions of the skeleton warrior and see through its eyes.Why does the golden circlet have the power to ruin the wand? Remember, when Tenebrous (as Orcus) created the object, he used the skull of the great warrior Anarchocles to power its dread magic. But he confined the basher's spirit to the circlet.Vampire: ?Half-Strength Wraith: [A] successful attack [from a lovelorn wraith] drains one experience level from a victim; those drained completely of levels become half-strength wraiths.</blockquote>

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