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Uncommon Undead Creatures Explained

The document lists various less popular undead creatures, each with unique abilities and characteristics. Examples include sword-haunting ghosts that haunt the blade that killed them, disembodied brains that use mind control, and reanimated muscle men that are more efficient than zombies. Other notable undead include snake vampires, ego-devouring shades, and brain-eating ghouls, each contributing to a diverse and imaginative undead lore.

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Uncommon Undead Creatures Explained

The document lists various less popular undead creatures, each with unique abilities and characteristics. Examples include sword-haunting ghosts that haunt the blade that killed them, disembodied brains that use mind control, and reanimated muscle men that are more efficient than zombies. Other notable undead include snake vampires, ego-devouring shades, and brain-eating ghouls, each contributing to a diverse and imaginative undead lore.

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Less Popular Undead


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1. Sword-haunting ghosts: f ollow around the blade that killed them f rom owner to owner, pooling talents to
terrif y and obstruct the actions of user at just the wrong moment
2. Disembodied brain, undead: uses mind control power to gain f resh host bodies f or temporary habitation in
hollowed-out skull
3. Reanimated muscle men: created using new process to f ully revivif y and sustain sof t tissues, more deadly
than skeletons, more ef f icient (and moderately more educable) than zombies
4. Ghoul, Bone-marrow f eeding: sports smilodon-like hollow tusks f or extracting f avored comestible
5. Ghoul, Mummy-making: harvests the recently dead not f or f easting, but f or eternal preservation as part of
growing mummy army, mustering in the f orbidden lands f or an unknown purpose
6. Ghost, Cambrian: spectral creatures of pre-ancient provenance and astonishing variety go about their
incomprehensible business with no particular interest in the living
7. Snake Vampires: created by sorcerers to combat asp-inf estation in ancient cities, subsequent return
of blood-drained asps as vampires totally unanticipated, their bite turns humans into bone-marrow f eeding
ghouls
8. Shade, Ego-Devouring: target the party member most enamored of self
9. Ghost, pathological liar: spews rumors, hints, tips, dire warnings and prognostications, all of which are
of f -the-cuf f f abrications
10. Cord slashers: spectral scalpel-wielding phantoms, take great delight in severing bond between physical
body and soul, which they devour, of ten with no observable ef f ect on victim
11. Ghost, Virus: inf ectious spiritual microorganism, soul-borne pathogen lethal to all but the most powerf ul
undead
12. Ghoul, Brain-eating genius: assimilates all knowledge encoded in cortex of victim, of ten quite genteel,
utterly reasonable, ambitions unf athomable

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