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Undead Origins

Voadam

Legend
Starfarer Adversaries: Legacy Bestiary
Starfinder
Lich: Liches are spellcasters that use their magical ability to extend their existence after they should have naturally died. This results in a powerful necromantic transformation that turns the once-living mage into a monstrous undead creature. The process allows that spellcaster to retain his intelligence and magical powers, while gaining a large number of new necromantic powers.
To become a lich, the spellcaster must place a portion of their life force into a specially-prepared object – a phylactery.
Liches are spell-casters who’ve decided they don’t give a [expletive deleted] about their mortal bodies and decided to prop it up for eternity with necromantic magic.
An integral part of becoming a lich is the creation of the phylactery in which the character stores his soul. The only way to get rid of a lich for sure is to destroy its phylactery. Unless its phylactery is located and destroyed, a lich can rejuvenate after it is felled.
Each lich must create its own phylactery. The character must be able to cast spells and have a caster level of 11th or higher. The phylactery costs 1,200,000 credits to create and has a caster level equal to that of its creator at the time of creation.
The most common form of phylactery is a sealed metal box containing strips of parchment on which magical phrases have been transcribed. The box is Tiny and has 40 hit points, hardness 20, and a break DC of 40.
Other forms of phylacteries can exist, such as rings, amulets, or similar items.
Cybernetic Human Lich Wizard: ?
Lich Template Graft: ?
Mummy: The creation of a mummy is a long and gruesome process, involving separating the internal organs of the prepared body. The body is then wrapped in expensive linens and anointed with sacred oils. When the tomb is finally sealed, the mummy awakens in an undead state.
While the creation of mummies has mostly fallen out of fashion, ancient civilizations and precursor worlds still have several ruins and tombs where mummies are encountered by unfortunate explorers and archaeologists. In particular the uramea – pregenitors of the deoxyian species – use this form of undead creation to maintain their biological modifications into undeath.
Mummy Guardian: ?
Mummy Ascended Uramae Mumiyah: ?
Shadow: Any living creature slain by a shadow rises as a shadow soon afterwards.
A humanoid creature killed by a shadow becomes a new shadow under the control of its killer in 1d4 rounds.
Spectre, Full-Fledged Spectre: If the creator of the spectre spawn is destroyed, the spectre spawn becomes a full-fledged spectre, and is no longer staggered.
Spectre Spawn: Any humanoids killed by a spectre’s drain life attack rises as a spectre spawn after 1d4 rounds.
Spectre Weapon Wraith: So called “weapon wraiths,” are, in fact, a variant form of spectre. These spectres have bonded to a specific weapon that was with them at their moment of death, and which has strong significance to them in both life and undeath.
Unextinct: These undead are dinosaurs animated and controlled by the magically-powerful Saurians to serve as protectors of their sacred territories. As dinosaurs die, or are slain, the Saurian necromancers transform the bodies of the fallen behemoths to create these specialized undead. Being possessed by the spirits of dead Saurians, the unextinct enjoy intelligence and supernatural powers far beyond those of a normal animated corpse.
Unextinct Clawtoed Giest: Animated from the bodies of deinonychuses, clawtoed giests travel and hunt in packs, seeking living creatures to slay and consume.
Unextinct Clubtailed Wight: Created from the body of the physically powerful ankylosaurus, the clubtailed wight is an exceptionally dangerous opponent.
Unextinct Devouring Knifedrake: Devouring knifedrakes are spawned from the dead bodies of allosauruses. They are empowered with exceptional spell-like abilities by their saurian creators.
Unextinct Sworddrake Ghoul: It is rare when one of these unextinct horrors are sighted, given the significance of Tyrannosaurs and their relationship with Saurians. But when necromancy is used to create a sworddrake ghoul, it is done to create a doomsday weapon.
Unextinct Vampire Trihorn: Vampire trihorns are created from the bodies of slain triceratops. Their undead reanimation gives them powers similar to a legendary vampire, including the ability to summon mists, transform into mist, and consume the blood of their enemies.
Unextinct Wraithwing: The wraithwing is a specialized type of unextinct created from the dead forms of flying pterosaurs: pteranodons, pterodactyls, and the like.
Vampire, Legendary Vampire: A vampire can create spawn out of those it slays with blood drain or energy drain, provided the slain creature is of the same type as the vampire’s base creature type. The victim rises from death as a vampire in 1d4 days.
Vampire Lord, Elf Vampire Magus: ?
Vampire Seducer, Human Vampire Envoy: ?
Vampire Warrior, Vishkanya Vampire Soldier: ?
Master Vampire: ?
Vampire Template Graft: ?
Vampire Spawn: A vampire can create spawn out of those it slays with blood drain or energy drain, provided the slain creature is of the same type as the vampire’s base creature type. The victim rises from death as a vampire in 1d4 days.
Wight: Those slain by a wight will soon afterwards arise as a wight themselves.
A humanoid creature that is slain by a wight becomes a wight itself in only 1d4 rounds.
A humanoid creature that is slain by a clubtailed wight becomes a wight itself in only 1d4 rounds.
Wight Spawn: Those slain by a wight will soon afterwards arise as a wight themselves.
A humanoid creature that is slain by a wight becomes a wight itself in only 1d4 rounds.
A humanoid creature that is slain by a clubtailed wight becomes a wight itself in only 1d4 rounds.
Free-Willed Wight: Spawn are under the control of the wight that created them and remain enslaved until the original wight is destroyed, at which point they become free-willed wights.
Spawn are under the control of the clubtailed wight that created them and remain enslaved until the original clubtailed wight is destroyed, at which point they become free-willed wights.
Lich, Monstrous Undead Creature, Spell-Caster: ?
Mummy, Undead Guardian: ?
Shadow, Incorporeal Undead, Wraith-Like Creature: ?
Spectre, Incorporeal Undead, Ghost: ?
Spectre Weapon Wraith, Variant Form of Specter: ?
Unextinct, Dinosaur Animated and Controlled by the Magically-Powerful Saurians, Protector, Specialized Undead: ?
Unextinct Clawtoed Giest, Ravenous Undead: ?
Unextinct Clubtailed Wight, Exceptionally Dangerous Opponent, Nigh-Unstoppable Undead Beast: ?
Unextinct Sworddrake Ghoul, Unextinct Horror, Doomsday Weapon, Unextinct Beast: ?
Unextinct Wraithwing, Specialized Type of Unextinct: ?
Vampire, Humanoid Undead, Blood-Sucker: ?
Vampire, Handsome Aristocrat: ?
Vampire Lord, Master: ?
Vampire Spawn, Weaker Vampire: ?
Vampire Spawn, Minion: ?
Wight, Undead Humanoid, Hateful Evil Creature: ?
Undead, Undead Creature, Necro: ?
Hateful and Evil Creature: ?
Undead Soul of the Damned: ?
Animated Corpse: ?
Half-Consumed Undead: ?
Basic Animated Dead: ?
Rival Undead: ?
Free-Willed Undead: ?
Powerful Undead Master: ?
Ghost: ?
Ghoul: A creature that dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul within 24 hours.
It is rare when one of these unextinct horrors are sighted, given the significance of Tyrannosaurs and their relationship with Saurians. But when necromancy is used to create a sworddrake ghoul, it is done to create a doomsday weapon. The body of the dead Tyrannosaur is infused with so much negative energy that it causes any creature swallowed by the unextinct beast to rise as a ghoul or zombie under its control.
Wraith, Standard Wraith: A living creature slain by a wraithwing’s shadow strafe attack becomes a wraith in 1d4 rounds.
Wraith Spawn: A living creature slain by a wraithwing’s shadow strafe attack becomes a wraith in 1d4 rounds. These spawn are under the command of the wraithwing that created them until its destruction, at which point they become free-willed wraiths.
Free-Willed Wraith: A living creature slain by a wraithwing’s shadow strafe attack becomes a wraith in 1d4 rounds. These spawn are under the command of the wraithwing that created them until its destruction, at which point they become free-willed wraiths.
Zombie: It is rare when one of these unextinct horrors are sighted, given the significance of Tyrannosaurs and their relationship with Saurians. But when necromancy is used to create a sworddrake ghoul, it is done to create a doomsday weapon. The body of the dead Tyrannosaur is infused with so much negative energy that it causes any creature swallowed by the unextinct beast to rise as a ghoul or zombie under its control.
Flying Zombie: ?
Occult Zombie Template: ?
 

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