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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9825545" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17188/dse1-dragon-s-crown-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">DSE1 Dragon's Crown (2e)</a>2eUndead, Undead Creature: ?Haakar, Undead Human Preserver, Powerful Free-Willed Undead Spirit, Ancient Undead Preserver, Builder, Ancient Preserver, Undead Preserver, Shade, Spectral Wizard: Haakar is a powerful, free-willed, undead spirit. He haunts the fortress Akarakle that once belonged to a society of mages whose master he was. The society of preservers had ties across Athas and fought against the rise of the defilers. Their fortress, Dasaraches, in the Dragon's Crown Mountains, is now in the hands of The Order.Haakar carried out the duties of his command, but his heart was always in magical research. During the rise of the defilers, he discovered their method of power amplification. His interest was clinical and while he knew the evil wizards to be enemies, he did not grasp the moral dimensions of their magical methods. As his research continued, he stumbled on to the principles of defiler metamorphosis.At the time, Akarakle was under was under siege by Merek the Wrong, a defiler warlord. He had cut off the mage's supply lines for a full year. Haakar did not fully understand the metamorphosis process, nor what its end was. He believed that by trying this one use of defiling technology, he might be empowered to defeat his attackers and save his people. The spell failed, but not before the walls of the fortress split wide and the life force of every being on the island of Morgazh was snuffed out. Haakar is a scientist who, in becoming obsessed with magical research, lost his moral compass.He haunts Akarakle and defends the keep from looters and glory seekers.I cannot rest. I am held here at the sight of my failure.I thought, it would work. Perhaps the legions outside our gates made me impatient.It began the day I discovered the source of the defiler's power. It was not at all obvious, but once understood, so simple that it was stunning. It was like adding a sail to a ship. It was destructive, of course, but I never imagined just how destructive. Sometimes to know your enemy . . . I guess you must become your enemy. Yes?I began to discern the logical extension of the defiler's inquiry. Transfiguration. Channeled through the structure of these very walls, fueled by the life force of my enemy's minions, and focused through the veins of obsidian beneath our feet I discovered that I could transform myself. I did not fully understand what I would become. I was certain it was conduit of immeasurable power-some kind of a gateway into the very elements around us. Something, something wonderful.With more time to study I would have learned, but my time was running short. Merek s legions had been outside my gates for a full cycle of the sun. My people were starving. We could not resist long, my choice was clear. It was either succumb to the defiler, or use the defiler's science against them. Just this once would I use it. It was, I believed, just. I would use their own weapon to defeat them. Think of the lives I would save, and the damage I would do to the defilers' growing ambition.The spell failed of course. Mot a soul within these walls survived. I got my wish, I suppose. Merek's forces were consumed too. And now here I am waiting for the day that my spirit can finally be laid to rest And that day may never come.Er'Thork, Raaig, Horrible Spectral Figure, Spectral Figure, Master, Spectral Raaig: The spectral figure is the raaig Er'Thork. He was once the high priest of the evil temple, and his belief in his dark gods has sustained him in unlife.Undead Warrior: ?Mockery of All That Druids Hold Sacred: ?Undead Roc, Collapsing Barn, Rotten Building: ?Ghast, Usual Ghast: These unliving spirits are the fallen souls of those who drank from the Black Waters and died of its effects. In life the ghast was a powerful defiler, yet he was slain by the waters and transformed into his present form.Ghast, Unliving Spirit, Fallen Soul: Ghoul: These unliving spirits are the fallen souls of those who drank from the Black Waters and died of its effects. In life the ghast was a powerful defiler, yet he was slain by the waters and transformed into his present form.Ghoul, Faithful Ghoul, Unliving Spirit, Fallen Soul: ?Mummy: ?Skeleton, Normal Skeleton: ?Monster Skeleton, Hulking Half-Giant Skeleton: ?Skeleton, Undead Spirit: ?Animal Skeleton, Hunting Dog, Undead Spirit: ?Skeletal Hound, Dog, Hound, Skeletal Dog: ?Skeletal Desert Giant, Skeleton of a Giant, Skeletal Giant, Skeleton: ?Skeleton, Skeletal Attendant: ?B'rohg Skeleton, Hulking Skeleton: ?Spectral War Beetle, Enormous Spectral Rezhatta, War Beetle, Enormous Spectral War Beetle: ?Spectre: ?Raphlin, Spirit of an Ancient Lord: ?Ghostly Figure, Spirit: ?Vampire: ?Wight: ?Wraith: ?Wraith Officer on Crodlu, Black Hazy Cloud, Vague Form of a Man Mounted on a Crodlu, Rider and Mount, Undead Spirit: ?Wraith Smith, Dark Amorphous Vaguely-Human Form, Smith, Wraith: ?Zombie: Beings reduced to zero Intelligence [by a raaig] are slain and rise as raaig-controlled zombies.B'rohg Zombie: ?Juju Zombie: ?Juju Zombie, Skeletal Juju Zombie: ?Juju Zombie, Juju Zombie Guard: ?Zombie Soldier, Man, Undead Soldier, Zombie: ?Zombie Roc-Rider, Rider, Common Zombie: ?Zombie Roc: ?Zombie Half-Giant Soldier: ?Juju Zombie, Figure in Ancient Armor, Armored Creature: ?Dwarven Banshee, Dwarf Banshee: ?Dhaot: The boy is the undead spirit of a waterboy from the defiler's army. He is a dhaot—a spirit created when a person with an intense love of home dies far away.Haakar, Dhaot, Pale Incorporeal Human Boy of About 14, Boy, Undead Spirit of a Waterboy, Undead Waterboy, Young Boy, Spirit: ?Morin, Powerless Apparition, Figure, Fallen Warrior, Spectral Figure of a Warrior, Lover: ?Powerless Apparition, Figure, Beautiful Young Woman, Woman, Lover, Apparition: ?</blockquote>

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