Beasts and Creatures
Beasts and Creatures
Zombies
Zombies
Zombies are animated corpses stripped of any spirit or intelligence they bore in life. Most often, zombies are created by necromancers or other evil spellcasters, although it’s not unheard of for zombies to arise spontaneously in areas marked by profound evil or unholy energy.
Death In Action. Zombies bear whatever wounds or decay they suffered before their animation. Although the necromantic energies involved in animating a zombie greatly slow further decay, all zombies eventually molder away.
Wraiths
Wraiths
A wraith is an incorporeal spirit of pure hatred and malice. Its very existence destroys life around it. It leaves a trail of desiccated plants in its wake, and fleeing wildlife precedes its passage.
Vampires
Vampires
Intelligent nocturnal undead driven by their thirst for blood, vampires are obsessed with and pained by the memories of their sunlit mortal days. Most vampires are burned by sunlight, though others have different weaknesses.
Titans
Titans
Titans are towering demigods with divine blood coursing through their veins.
Skeletons
Skeletons
Skeletons are fleshless corpses imbued by necromantic energies with a mockery of life. Most often, spellcasters create skeletons to act as guards and servants, but it’s not unheard of for skeletons to arise from cursed grounds where the living are outnumbered by the unburied dead.
Salamanders
Salamanders
Natives of the Elemental Plane of Fire, salamanders are sinuous, snake-like beings with glowing yellow eyes and beaked faces. On their home plane, they are stern mercenaries and joyless crafters, but salamanders let loose on the Material Plane become giddy and playful.
Sahuagin
Sahuagin
Sahuagin are aquatic humanoids with a strong resemblance to—and affinity for—sharks. They cannot survive long out of water, but in their native environment they are formidable indeed. Those who travel the world’s oceans ignore sahuagin at their peril.
Oozes
Oozes
Oozes thrive in the deep, dark, and dank places of the world. Shapeless blobs capable of squeezing through even the narrowest spaces, they are mindless scavengers that dissolve metal and organic matter to fuel their strange metabolisms.
Ogres
Ogres
Standing some 10 feet tall and weighing nearly 1,000 pounds, ogres look like massive, barrelchested humanoids with wide, fanged jaws.
Lost Greatness. Ogres are the descendants of giants forced out of their elementally-infused homes. Though now far removed from their giant ancestors, ogre tribes still remember the calamitous fall of the giants’ empire, and their stories warn against venturing too much or building too high.