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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9875732" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17252/SJR1-Lost-Ships-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">SJR1 Lost Ships (2e)</a>2eDeath Tyrant: Death tyrants occur spontaneously in very rare instances. In most cases, they are created through the magic of evil beings—from human mages to illithid villains. Some outcast, magic-using beholders have even been known to create death tyrants from their unfortunate brethren.Death tyrants are created from dying beholders, those condemned as traitors to their race (or sub-race; beholders belong to many warring clans), and captives taken in battle by beholders of another nation. A spell, thought to have been developed by human mages in the remote past, forces a beholder from a living to undead state, and imprints its brain with instructions.At great loss, a few beholders were captured, slain, and transformed into undead "death tyrants."Archlich: They are transformed human spellcasters of good alignment who have deliberately and carefully accomplished their own transformation into undeath.To become an archlich, a living spellcaster must create a magical item of some sort. By tradition, for most wizards this item is a miniature spellbook into which they put the nine spells they seek to carry forever in undeath.A potion must then be created and enchanted with the spells animate dead, chill touch, contingency, pass without trace, permanency, teleport, trap the soul, and wraithform. The would-be archlich drinks the potion while touching the chosen magical item, which must be anointed with at least one drop of the would-be archlich's blood.A single, secret spell is then cast, and the being either dies (07% chance) or enters undeath (83% chance), collapsing into a death-like slumber that lasts 4-16 turns. When the being awakes, it will be an archlich forevermore.The potion may be created and the lichdom spell cast by the would-be archlich or by another being; i.e., a prospective archlich may achieve undeath through the magical assistance of another. The process cannot, however, work on an unwilling creature (its death will always result). The would-be archlich may also have aid in creating the magical item that stores its essence, but must take an active part in its creation.Neogi Undead Old Master, Night Neogi: Certain cunning, magic-using neogi who grow old resist their coming transformation into great old masters, and flee neogi society to achieve undeath through their magic.Skullsnake: Skeletal and evil, seeking to destroy all non-sarphardin life, these are believed to have been created by evil humans and magic-using beholders.Death Tyrant, Undead Beholder, Mold-Encrusted Beholder, Mindless Servant, More Intelligent Undead, Horror, Zombie Beholder: ?Death Tyrant Guard: ?Rogue Death Tyrant: 'Rogue' death tyrants also exist: those whose instructions specifically enable them to ignore all controlling attempts.Archlich, Very Rare Form of Undead, Transformed Human Spellcaster of Good Alignment Who Has Deliberately and Carefully Accomplished Their Own Transformation Into Undeath, Caring Individual, Gaunt Skeletal Human: ?Archlich Bard: ?Sharangar Szeltune, Archlich, Skeletal Figure, Corpse, Last Surviving Member of a Long-Ago Adventuring Band: On the trip she became an archlich by completing preparations she had begun earlier in her career.Neogi Undead Old Master, Fell Self-Sufficient Predator, Crafty Paranoid Planner: ?Ulurth, Neogi Undead Old Master, Hairy Brightly Colored Orange and Green Spider, Undead Neogi, Renegade Neogi Old Master, Renegade Undead Old Master: The renegade neogi Old Master, (Jlurth fled from death in this ship. Having a natural aptitude for magic, it studied and practiced all it could find (especially spellbooks seized from captured humans). As the years passed it advanced its magic to the equivalent of an 8th-level wizard. Not wanting to die in agony as a Great Old Master, Ulurth spent years researching undeath.Many umber hulk slaves and lesser neogi died in (Jlurth's experiments, until it found a human mage's process for achieving lich status. After destroying the result of the experiments, it became undead itself.Skullsnake, Undead Sarphardin: ?Undead: ?Undead Gunner: ?Lesser Undead: ?Undead Servitor: ?Undead Human: ?More Unusual Sort of Undead: ?Most Powerful Undead Creature: ?Banshee, More Unusual Sort of Undead: ?Ghast: ?Ghost: ?Ghost Captain: ?Hungry Ghoul: ?Ghoul: ?Lich: ?Xiontarn, Lich: ?Liileth, Lich: ?Demilich: ?Lich Captain: ?Mummy, Regular Mummy, Undead Mummy: ?The Dark Pharaoh, Especially Powerful Mummy, Undead Mummy of Unusual Powers: ?Mummy Captain: ?Poltergeist, More Unusual Sort of Undead: ?Shadow, Undead Shadow: ?Skeleton: An archlich can animate dead by touch and will, to raise skeletons and zombies to serve it.Luth, Skeletal Bat: ?Nuenlee, Skeletal Bat: ?Spectre: ?Vampire: ?Vampire Captain: ?Wight: ?Vengunn, Wild-Eyed Unfortunate Wight: ?Wraith: ?Zombie: ?Monster Zombie: ?</blockquote>

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