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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9316354" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://paizo.com/products/btpya20r?Starfinder-Alien-Archive-2" target="_blank">Starfinder Alien Archive 2</a></p><p>Starfinder</p><p><strong>Void Zombie:</strong> Akatas reproduce by implanting their parasitic larval offspring in humanoid hosts. These microscopic larvae cause an infection called void death, which functions as a disease. Those who perish from void death become void zombies.</p><p>After a humanoid host dies from void death, the strongest of the akata larvae infesting the corpse worms its way to the host’s brain and undergoes a swift initial gestation within 2d4 hours. This accelerated growth causes the feeler-covered head of the oversized, tadpole-shaped parasite to latch onto the base of its victim’s brain and reenergize the dying organ, taking control and turning the host into a void zombie.</p><p>Void Death disease.</p><p><strong>Void Zombie Template Graft:</strong> A humanoid that dies from void death contracted from the void bite of an akata becomes a mindless undead host for the akata’s larval offspring.</p><p><strong>Bone Trooper, Skeletal Champion, Undead Bone Trooper:</strong> Using magic rituals, technomantic experiments, or both, powerful spellcasters can animate the bones of the dead. Although many of these undead are mindless and easily controlled, others retain their intellects, memories, and personalities, and thus they are able to continue a semblance of their former lives. Called skeletal champions in previous ages, these undead are now more commonly known as bone troopers because of their frequent association with the Corpse Fleet, a renegade starship navy of undead.</p><p>A member of almost any sapient species that has a skeleton can become a bone trooper.</p><p><strong>Bone Trooper Technomancer, Bone Trooper Elebrian Technomancer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bone Trooper Captain, Bone Trooper Elebrian Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bone Trooper Template Graft:</strong> The animated skeleton of a dead creature, a bone trooper retains the Intelligence score, skills, and abilities the dead creature had when alive, making the bone trooper a far more formidable combatant than typical mindless undead are.</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Zombie Master:</strong> Bodies of the dead can, if in good enough condition, be magically made into corpsefolk: free-willed and intelligent undead who remember much of their past lives. For lone necromancers, this magic is possible only if the corpse is of the recently deceased or has been preserved shortly after death. However, the bone sages of Eox have learned to magically repair even badly damaged corpses and those decayed beyond what was usable for lesser necromancers.</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk Operative:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk Marine, Corpsefolk Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk Template Graft:</strong> The animated corpse of a dead creature, a corpsefolk keeps the abilities, intelligence, and skills it had when it was alive.</p><p><strong>Emotivore:</strong> Emotivores are undead that come into being when someone dies in the throes of intense feelings, especially among a large group of people experiencing similar emotions.</p><p><strong>Emotivore Mastermind, Emotivore Mystic:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Emotivore Template Graft:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> In most cases, when a creature dies, its soul is severed from its physical body and sent on to its fate in the afterlife. However, sometimes souls are bound to the physical world by powerful emotion and cannot move on. While ghosts bound by positive emotions do exist, in most cases horrendous injustice creates ghosts.</p><p><strong>Ghost Mystic:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost Template Graft:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul:</strong> A creature that dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul within 24 hours.</p><p>Ghouls spread—sometimes purposefully—a virulent disease known as ghoul fever through their saliva. As creatures that die of ghoul fever often rise as ghouls themselves, a population explosion can easily result.</p><p><strong>Ghoul Shock Trooper, Ghoul Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul Template Graft:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghast:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lacedon:</strong> Ghouls that lurk underwater and in coastal areas are called lacedons.</p><p><strong>Void Zombie, Walking Rotting Corpse:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Void Zombie Template Graft, Mindless Undead Host:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bone Trooper, Fleshless Skeleton With a Cold Cunning Light Burning in its Eye Sockets:</strong> ?<strong>Bone Trooper Template Graft, Animated Skeleton of a Dead Creature, Far More Formiddable Combatant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Elebrian Bone Trooper:</strong> When the dead planet Eox suffered the cataclysm that nearly destroyed the world, its inhabitants looked to necromancy for their salvation. The most powerful elebrians became bone sages, but a significant proportion of Eox’s populace that managed to survive did so as bone troopers.</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Free-Willed Intelligent Undead, Walking Corpse, Self-Aware Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Indentured Servant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Normal Citizen:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Second-Class Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Peasant:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Wage Slave:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Ragged Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Manager:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Technician:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk, Worker:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk Template Graft, Animated Corpse of a Dead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Corpsefolk Template Graft, Cunning Dangerous Foe:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost, Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost Bound by Positive Emotions:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost, Hateful Mockery:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Good Worker:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Excellent Researcher:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Excellent Scholar:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Excellent Soldier:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul, Excellent Laborer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ambitious Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul Shock Trooper, Ambitious Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ambitious Ghoul, Mechanic:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ambitious Ghoul, Technomancer:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghoul Envoy:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Powerful Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lacedon, Ghoul That Lurks Underwater:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Lacedon, Ghoul That Lurks in Coastal Areas:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghast, Powerful Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Powerful Lacedon:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Unique Ghoul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Bone Sage:</strong> When the dead planet Eox suffered the cataclysm that nearly destroyed the world, its inhabitants looked to necromancy for their salvation. The most powerful elebrians became bone sages, but a significant proportion of Eox’s populace that managed to survive did so as bone troopers.</p><p><strong>Undead, Undead Creature:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Evil Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Typical Mindless Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Self-Aware Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead That Must Consume Materials from the Living:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead That Hate the Living and Wish to Destroy Them:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Mindless Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead With Low Radiation Aura:</strong> Undead creatures created by a pluprex are radioactive, emitting low radiation in a 20-foot radius.</p><p><strong>Undead With Medium Radiation Aura:</strong> Undead creatures created by a pluprex are radioactive, emitting low radiation in a 20-foot radius. Once per day as a standard action, a pluprex can touch an undead creature it has created to enhance that creature’s radioactive aura, permanently increasing that creature’s radioactivity to medium. A pluprex cannot enhance radiation in this way to a higher level. Alternatively, the pluprex can give any undead creature a medium radioactive aura by touching it, but such auras last for only 24 hours before fading.</p><p><strong>Unwary Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Created When a Starship is Destroyed:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Created With Animate Dead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Vampire:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p></p><p>VOID DEATH</p><p>Type disease (injury); Save Fortitude DC 10</p><p>Track physical; Frequency 1/day</p><p>Effect No latent/carrier state; an infected creature that dies rises as a void zombie 2d4 hours later.</p><p>Cure 2 consecutive saves</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9316354, member: 2209"] [URL='https://paizo.com/products/btpya20r?Starfinder-Alien-Archive-2']Starfinder Alien Archive 2[/URL] Starfinder [B]Void Zombie:[/B] Akatas reproduce by implanting their parasitic larval offspring in humanoid hosts. These microscopic larvae cause an infection called void death, which functions as a disease. Those who perish from void death become void zombies. After a humanoid host dies from void death, the strongest of the akata larvae infesting the corpse worms its way to the host’s brain and undergoes a swift initial gestation within 2d4 hours. This accelerated growth causes the feeler-covered head of the oversized, tadpole-shaped parasite to latch onto the base of its victim’s brain and reenergize the dying organ, taking control and turning the host into a void zombie. Void Death disease. [B]Void Zombie Template Graft:[/B] A humanoid that dies from void death contracted from the void bite of an akata becomes a mindless undead host for the akata’s larval offspring. [B]Bone Trooper, Skeletal Champion, Undead Bone Trooper:[/B] Using magic rituals, technomantic experiments, or both, powerful spellcasters can animate the bones of the dead. Although many of these undead are mindless and easily controlled, others retain their intellects, memories, and personalities, and thus they are able to continue a semblance of their former lives. Called skeletal champions in previous ages, these undead are now more commonly known as bone troopers because of their frequent association with the Corpse Fleet, a renegade starship navy of undead. A member of almost any sapient species that has a skeleton can become a bone trooper. [B]Bone Trooper Technomancer, Bone Trooper Elebrian Technomancer:[/B] ? [B]Bone Trooper Captain, Bone Trooper Elebrian Soldier:[/B] ? [B]Bone Trooper Template Graft:[/B] The animated skeleton of a dead creature, a bone trooper retains the Intelligence score, skills, and abilities the dead creature had when alive, making the bone trooper a far more formidable combatant than typical mindless undead are. [B]Corpsefolk, Zombie Master:[/B] Bodies of the dead can, if in good enough condition, be magically made into corpsefolk: free-willed and intelligent undead who remember much of their past lives. For lone necromancers, this magic is possible only if the corpse is of the recently deceased or has been preserved shortly after death. However, the bone sages of Eox have learned to magically repair even badly damaged corpses and those decayed beyond what was usable for lesser necromancers. [B]Corpsefolk Operative:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk Marine, Corpsefolk Soldier:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk Template Graft:[/B] The animated corpse of a dead creature, a corpsefolk keeps the abilities, intelligence, and skills it had when it was alive. [B]Emotivore:[/B] Emotivores are undead that come into being when someone dies in the throes of intense feelings, especially among a large group of people experiencing similar emotions. [B]Emotivore Mastermind, Emotivore Mystic:[/B] ? [B]Emotivore Template Graft:[/B] ? [B]Ghost:[/B] In most cases, when a creature dies, its soul is severed from its physical body and sent on to its fate in the afterlife. However, sometimes souls are bound to the physical world by powerful emotion and cannot move on. While ghosts bound by positive emotions do exist, in most cases horrendous injustice creates ghosts. [B]Ghost Mystic:[/B] ? [B]Ghost Template Graft:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul:[/B] A creature that dies of ghoul fever rises as a ghoul within 24 hours. Ghouls spread—sometimes purposefully—a virulent disease known as ghoul fever through their saliva. As creatures that die of ghoul fever often rise as ghouls themselves, a population explosion can easily result. [B]Ghoul Shock Trooper, Ghoul Soldier:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul Template Graft:[/B] ? [B]Ghast:[/B] ? [B]Lacedon:[/B] Ghouls that lurk underwater and in coastal areas are called lacedons. [B]Void Zombie, Walking Rotting Corpse:[/B] ? [B]Void Zombie Template Graft, Mindless Undead Host:[/B] ? [B]Bone Trooper, Fleshless Skeleton With a Cold Cunning Light Burning in its Eye Sockets:[/B] ?[B]Bone Trooper Template Graft, Animated Skeleton of a Dead Creature, Far More Formiddable Combatant:[/B] ? [B]Elebrian Bone Trooper:[/B] When the dead planet Eox suffered the cataclysm that nearly destroyed the world, its inhabitants looked to necromancy for their salvation. The most powerful elebrians became bone sages, but a significant proportion of Eox’s populace that managed to survive did so as bone troopers. [B]Corpsefolk, Free-Willed Intelligent Undead, Walking Corpse, Self-Aware Undead Creature:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Indentured Servant:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Normal Citizen:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Soldier:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Second-Class Undead:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Peasant:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Wage Slave:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Ragged Undead:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Manager:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Technician:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk, Worker:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk Template Graft, Animated Corpse of a Dead Creature:[/B] ? [B]Corpsefolk Template Graft, Cunning Dangerous Foe:[/B] ? [B]Ghost, Spirit:[/B] ? [B]Ghost Bound by Positive Emotions:[/B] ? [B]Ghost, Hateful Mockery:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul, Good Worker:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul, Excellent Researcher:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul, Excellent Scholar:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul, Excellent Soldier:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul, Excellent Laborer:[/B] ? [B]Ambitious Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul Shock Trooper, Ambitious Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Ambitious Ghoul, Mechanic:[/B] ? [B]Ambitious Ghoul, Technomancer:[/B] ? [B]Ghoul Envoy:[/B] ? [B]Powerful Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Lacedon, Ghoul That Lurks Underwater:[/B] ? [B]Lacedon, Ghoul That Lurks in Coastal Areas:[/B] ? [B]Ghast, Powerful Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Powerful Lacedon:[/B] ? [B]Unique Ghoul:[/B] ? [B]Bone Sage:[/B] When the dead planet Eox suffered the cataclysm that nearly destroyed the world, its inhabitants looked to necromancy for their salvation. The most powerful elebrians became bone sages, but a significant proportion of Eox’s populace that managed to survive did so as bone troopers. [B]Undead, Undead Creature:[/B] ? [B]Evil Undead:[/B] ? [B]Typical Mindless Undead:[/B] ? [B]Self-Aware Undead:[/B] ? [B]Undead That Must Consume Materials from the Living:[/B] ? [B]Undead That Hate the Living and Wish to Destroy Them:[/B] ? [B]Mindless Undead:[/B] ? [B]Undead With Low Radiation Aura:[/B] Undead creatures created by a pluprex are radioactive, emitting low radiation in a 20-foot radius. [B]Undead With Medium Radiation Aura:[/B] Undead creatures created by a pluprex are radioactive, emitting low radiation in a 20-foot radius. Once per day as a standard action, a pluprex can touch an undead creature it has created to enhance that creature’s radioactive aura, permanently increasing that creature’s radioactivity to medium. A pluprex cannot enhance radiation in this way to a higher level. Alternatively, the pluprex can give any undead creature a medium radioactive aura by touching it, but such auras last for only 24 hours before fading. [B]Unwary Undead:[/B] ? [B]Undead Created When a Starship is Destroyed:[/B] ? [B]Undead Created With Animate Dead:[/B] ? [B]Vampire:[/B] ? [B]Zombie:[/B] ? VOID DEATH Type disease (injury); Save Fortitude DC 10 Track physical; Frequency 1/day Effect No latent/carrier state; an infected creature that dies rises as a void zombie 2d4 hours later. Cure 2 consecutive saves [/QUOTE]
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