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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8450838" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/291507/Creatures-from-FairyTale-and-Myth-5e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Creatures from Fairy-Tale and Myth 5e</a></p><p>5e </p><p><strong>Undead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Warg:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Reef Shark:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Polar Bear:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Hunter Shark:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Woman:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Child:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Grotesque Undead Carrion Bird of Normal Size:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Grotesque Undead Carrion Bird of Giant Size:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Undead Sheperd:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Banshee:</strong> It is generally accepted that they are the restless spirits of the dead women and maidens. It is impossible to tell for sure, since no man or woman has been able to survive an encounter with this most dreadful apparition.</p><p>Scholars and soothsayers can agree that for the most part they were Aos-Si women, those who live in the Seelie courts beyond the Veil. Faeries per se, that died in the realm of mankind and are now doomed to haunt its landscape. Mortal women who have been reincarnated as Banshees are said to have possessed some Faerie blood in their veins.</p><p>In the county of Mayo, a young maiden was killed by the head of a prominent clan. Before she died, she promised to get revenge on him and his kinsmen.</p><p>Banshees are female spirits that appear in various ages from a young girl, to a stately matron, to a crooked old hag.</p><p>A Banshee is an Aos-Si, usually a Fairy Queen who has died in Midgard, the realm of mankind. As a result she is doomed to wander the nights as a Banshee, unable to return to her homeland via the Sidhe mounds.</p><p><strong>Restless Spirit of a Dead Woman:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Restless Spirit of a Dead Maiden:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Most Dreadful Apparition:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Apparition:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Female Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Clidna, The Banshee of the MacCarthy Clan, Banshee:</strong> One of the most famous Banshees was Clidna, who began her existence as a Fairy Queen of Munster, who after a tragic fate became the Banshee of the MacCarthy clan.</p><p><strong>Banshee Leananshee:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Aine, Banshee:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Maeveen, Banshee:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Eodain, Banshee Leananshee:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Aibell, Banshee:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Draugar, Walking Dead, Wandering Dead:</strong> The dead of the Sword Age know no rest. Hel’s realm is closed, and so—if unclaimed by Valkyries—bodies rise again as Draugar.</p><p>The walking dead are a frayed thread on the tapestry of the Norns. The otherwise noble hero Glamar, working as a shepherd one night, was assaulted and his neck broken by a Draugar, and rose the next night as a Draugar himself. Dead men are not meant to kill the living, and any warrior killed by Draugar are kinked from the Norns’ tapestry, and more likely themselves to be rejected by Hel.</p><p><strong>Wandering Corpse:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Noble Draugar:</strong> There are some stories of noble Draugar who guard their descendants and their lineage from a safe distance, but this certainly must be a change of heart upon death, for if they were that noble in life they would have at least been accepted into Niflheim.</p><p><strong>Hrapp, Draugar:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Thorolf Half-Foot, Draugar:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Glamr, Draugar:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Thrain, Draugar:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Glamar, Draugar:</strong> The walking dead are a frayed thread on the tapestry of the Norns. The otherwise noble hero Glamar, working as a shepherd one night, was assaulted and his neck broken by a Draugar, and rose the next night as a Draugar himself. Dead men are not meant to kill the living, and any warrior killed by Draugar are kinked from the Norns’ tapestry, and more likely themselves to be rejected by Hel.</p><p><strong>Draugar Aptragangr:</strong> They are the elite of Hel’s armies, and often were Angels of Death when they lived.</p><p><strong>Lang, Draugar:</strong> The noble hero Lang was killed protecting the village, but has risen from the dead to continue protecting his village.</p><p><strong>Eir, Draugar:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Magnor, Draugar:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ghost:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Haugbui:</strong> A Haugbui is a spirit of the dead, bound to its burial mound.</p><p>The purpose that drove it to reject rest usually has some unattainable aspect. Resentments in life do not usually become more attainable in death. For instance, to seek revenge on someone else, who is already dead; to regain lost love; to have things go back to the way they used to be. Should the Haugbui’s nigh-impossible demands be resolved the spirit would move on. More commonly, however, enough time passes that the old Haugbui has forgotten their lives and some even their names, but still hold on to the resentment that bound them to the earth, even if they’ve forgotten why.</p><p>A Haugbui is the animated spirit of a dead mortal. Its body, which may be wholly or mostly destroyed, lies in its grave as its spirit haunts the burial mound.</p><p>Has an unfinished goal from life, is cursed, or has failed at some great task, and the passion of what is unresolved turns a spirit into a Haugbui.</p><p>Sometimes Haugbui are manipulated into being by the sinister curse of a Seithkona or Galdr, in order to trick it into being an effective though unwilling guardian of a particular place.</p><p><strong>Spirit of the Dead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Animated Spirit of a Dead Mortal:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>The Hog-Boy of Maeshowe, Haugbui:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Muir Arnott, Haugbui:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Huldufolk:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Drowned Skeleton:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Drowned Zombie:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Unquiet Dead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ijirait:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Angry Dead Soul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ancestor Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Utburden:</strong> An Utburden is made when a newborn or very young child is rejected by their family and killed or left to die. This is usually the deed of an unwed mother who—whether to avoid shame or just another mouth to feed—kills and buries her child or simply leaves it in the wilderness to die. An Utburden could even be a stillborn child not shown proper love before its remains were cast away. An Utburden desires revenge for the unloving act of its rejection.</p><p>An Utburden is the spirit of a child who died in childbirth, was stillborn, or was abandoned to die by its family soon after birth.</p><p><strong>Spirit of a Child Who Died in Childbirth:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spirit of a Child Who Was Stillborn:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Spirit of a Child Who Was Abandoned to Die by its Family Soon After Birth:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Terrible Spirit:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Restless Dead:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Wraith:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Specter:</strong> Wraith's Create Specter power.</p><p><strong>Wight Sovereign:</strong> A Wight Sovereign is the most powerful type of lost soul. They cannot proceed to an afterlife. Niflheim has rejected them and they have abandoned all hope of resolving their unfinished business in Midgard.</p><p>Typically, the lost souls who become Wight Sovereigns were ambitious opportunists, usurpers and power-mongers in life.</p><p>Many Wight Sovereigns have personal conflict with Valkyries. Much to the Valkyries’ shame, they are partially responsible for Wight Sovereigns. The Valkyries are jealous of mortal lives and experience, and so some will—contrary to their edicts—possess human bodies. A Valkyrie who possesses a human body can only leave when the body dies, which makes the human soul lost, and all but assured to become a Wight Sovereign.</p><p>Wight Sovereigns are powerful lost souls who have mastered their damned state.</p><p>It seems only a mortal soul is capable of becoming a Wight Sovereign.</p><p><strong>Lost Soul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Powerful Lost Soul:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>King Siggeir, Wight Sovereign:</strong> King Siggeir was the corrupt King of Gottland until he was killed by the hero Sigmund. King Siggeir became a Wight Sovereign, and with the other Wights he has assembled, have made Gottland the once thriving kingdom uninhabitable.</p><p><strong>Arch-Wight Sovereign:</strong> ?</p><p><strong>Ozur, Wight Sovereign, Evil Spirit:</strong> Ozur was a master manipulator in life, and is so too in death.</p><p></p><p>Create Specter. The wraith targets a humanoid within 10 feet of it that has been dead for no longer than 1 minute and died violently. The target’s spirit rises as a specter in the space of its corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. The specter is under the wraith’s control. The wraith can have no more than seven specters under its control at one time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8450838, member: 2209"] [URL=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/291507/Creatures-from-FairyTale-and-Myth-5e?affiliate_id=17596]Creatures from Fairy-Tale and Myth 5e[/URL] 5e [b]Undead:[/b] ? [b]Undead Warg:[/b] ? [b]Undead Reef Shark:[/b] ? [b]Undead Polar Bear:[/b] ? [b]Undead Hunter Shark:[/b] ? [b]Undead Woman:[/b] ? [b]Undead Child:[/b] ? [b]Grotesque Undead Carrion Bird of Normal Size:[/b] ? [b]Grotesque Undead Carrion Bird of Giant Size:[/b] ? [b]Undead Sheperd:[/b] ? [b]Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Banshee:[/b] It is generally accepted that they are the restless spirits of the dead women and maidens. It is impossible to tell for sure, since no man or woman has been able to survive an encounter with this most dreadful apparition. Scholars and soothsayers can agree that for the most part they were Aos-Si women, those who live in the Seelie courts beyond the Veil. Faeries per se, that died in the realm of mankind and are now doomed to haunt its landscape. Mortal women who have been reincarnated as Banshees are said to have possessed some Faerie blood in their veins. In the county of Mayo, a young maiden was killed by the head of a prominent clan. Before she died, she promised to get revenge on him and his kinsmen. Banshees are female spirits that appear in various ages from a young girl, to a stately matron, to a crooked old hag. A Banshee is an Aos-Si, usually a Fairy Queen who has died in Midgard, the realm of mankind. As a result she is doomed to wander the nights as a Banshee, unable to return to her homeland via the Sidhe mounds. [b]Restless Spirit of a Dead Woman:[/b] ? [b]Restless Spirit of a Dead Maiden:[/b] ? [b]Most Dreadful Apparition:[/b] ? [b]Apparition:[/b] ? [b]Female Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Clidna, The Banshee of the MacCarthy Clan, Banshee:[/b] One of the most famous Banshees was Clidna, who began her existence as a Fairy Queen of Munster, who after a tragic fate became the Banshee of the MacCarthy clan. [b]Banshee Leananshee:[/b] ? [b]Aine, Banshee:[/b] ? [b]Maeveen, Banshee:[/b] ? [b]Eodain, Banshee Leananshee:[/b] ? [b]Aibell, Banshee:[/b] ? [b]Draugar, Walking Dead, Wandering Dead:[/b] The dead of the Sword Age know no rest. Hel’s realm is closed, and so—if unclaimed by Valkyries—bodies rise again as Draugar. The walking dead are a frayed thread on the tapestry of the Norns. The otherwise noble hero Glamar, working as a shepherd one night, was assaulted and his neck broken by a Draugar, and rose the next night as a Draugar himself. Dead men are not meant to kill the living, and any warrior killed by Draugar are kinked from the Norns’ tapestry, and more likely themselves to be rejected by Hel. [b]Wandering Corpse:[/b] ? [b]Noble Draugar:[/b] There are some stories of noble Draugar who guard their descendants and their lineage from a safe distance, but this certainly must be a change of heart upon death, for if they were that noble in life they would have at least been accepted into Niflheim. [b]Hrapp, Draugar:[/b] ? [b]Thorolf Half-Foot, Draugar:[/b] ? [b]Glamr, Draugar:[/b] ? [b]Thrain, Draugar:[/b] ? [b]Glamar, Draugar:[/b] The walking dead are a frayed thread on the tapestry of the Norns. The otherwise noble hero Glamar, working as a shepherd one night, was assaulted and his neck broken by a Draugar, and rose the next night as a Draugar himself. Dead men are not meant to kill the living, and any warrior killed by Draugar are kinked from the Norns’ tapestry, and more likely themselves to be rejected by Hel. [b]Draugar Aptragangr:[/b] They are the elite of Hel’s armies, and often were Angels of Death when they lived. [b]Lang, Draugar:[/b] The noble hero Lang was killed protecting the village, but has risen from the dead to continue protecting his village. [b]Eir, Draugar:[/b] ? [b]Magnor, Draugar:[/b] ? [b]Ghost:[/b] ? [b]Haugbui:[/b] A Haugbui is a spirit of the dead, bound to its burial mound. The purpose that drove it to reject rest usually has some unattainable aspect. Resentments in life do not usually become more attainable in death. For instance, to seek revenge on someone else, who is already dead; to regain lost love; to have things go back to the way they used to be. Should the Haugbui’s nigh-impossible demands be resolved the spirit would move on. More commonly, however, enough time passes that the old Haugbui has forgotten their lives and some even their names, but still hold on to the resentment that bound them to the earth, even if they’ve forgotten why. A Haugbui is the animated spirit of a dead mortal. Its body, which may be wholly or mostly destroyed, lies in its grave as its spirit haunts the burial mound. Has an unfinished goal from life, is cursed, or has failed at some great task, and the passion of what is unresolved turns a spirit into a Haugbui. Sometimes Haugbui are manipulated into being by the sinister curse of a Seithkona or Galdr, in order to trick it into being an effective though unwilling guardian of a particular place. [b]Spirit of the Dead:[/b] ? [b]Animated Spirit of a Dead Mortal:[/b] ? [b]The Hog-Boy of Maeshowe, Haugbui:[/b] ? [b]Muir Arnott, Haugbui:[/b] ? [b]Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Zombie:[/b] ? [b]Huldufolk:[/b] ? [b]Drowned Skeleton:[/b] ? [b]Drowned Zombie:[/b] ? [b]Unquiet Dead:[/b] ? [b]Ijirait:[/b] ? [b]Angry Dead Soul:[/b] ? [b]Ancestor Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Utburden:[/b] An Utburden is made when a newborn or very young child is rejected by their family and killed or left to die. This is usually the deed of an unwed mother who—whether to avoid shame or just another mouth to feed—kills and buries her child or simply leaves it in the wilderness to die. An Utburden could even be a stillborn child not shown proper love before its remains were cast away. An Utburden desires revenge for the unloving act of its rejection. An Utburden is the spirit of a child who died in childbirth, was stillborn, or was abandoned to die by its family soon after birth. [b]Spirit of a Child Who Died in Childbirth:[/b] ? [b]Spirit of a Child Who Was Stillborn:[/b] ? [b]Spirit of a Child Who Was Abandoned to Die by its Family Soon After Birth:[/b] ? [b]Terrible Spirit:[/b] ? [b]Restless Dead:[/b] ? [b]Wraith:[/b] ? [b]Specter:[/b] Wraith's Create Specter power. [b]Wight Sovereign:[/b] A Wight Sovereign is the most powerful type of lost soul. They cannot proceed to an afterlife. Niflheim has rejected them and they have abandoned all hope of resolving their unfinished business in Midgard. Typically, the lost souls who become Wight Sovereigns were ambitious opportunists, usurpers and power-mongers in life. Many Wight Sovereigns have personal conflict with Valkyries. Much to the Valkyries’ shame, they are partially responsible for Wight Sovereigns. The Valkyries are jealous of mortal lives and experience, and so some will—contrary to their edicts—possess human bodies. A Valkyrie who possesses a human body can only leave when the body dies, which makes the human soul lost, and all but assured to become a Wight Sovereign. Wight Sovereigns are powerful lost souls who have mastered their damned state. It seems only a mortal soul is capable of becoming a Wight Sovereign. [b]Lost Soul:[/b] ? [b]Powerful Lost Soul:[/b] ? [b]King Siggeir, Wight Sovereign:[/b] King Siggeir was the corrupt King of Gottland until he was killed by the hero Sigmund. King Siggeir became a Wight Sovereign, and with the other Wights he has assembled, have made Gottland the once thriving kingdom uninhabitable. [b]Arch-Wight Sovereign:[/b] ? [b]Ozur, Wight Sovereign, Evil Spirit:[/b] Ozur was a master manipulator in life, and is so too in death. Create Specter. The wraith targets a humanoid within 10 feet of it that has been dead for no longer than 1 minute and died violently. The target’s spirit rises as a specter in the space of its corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. The specter is under the wraith’s control. The wraith can have no more than seven specters under its control at one time. [/QUOTE]
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