Category:Crimson Death

Note: this article covers blood-sucking, vaporous monsters known as crimson deaths. For the similarly named disease, see Crimson Death Epidemic.

Canon Information

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A crimson death is an undead of fog and mist-like form with some roughly humanoid features, such as a head and two arms but no legs. It sustains itself by drinking the blood of the living^[1][2], leading sages and other necrologists to speculate the death of a vampire can cause the birth of a crimson death.^[1] Usually white in color, a Crimson Death that has fed takes on a more crimson or reddish color^[1][2], likely giving the creature its name.

A crimson death attacks with misty tentacles, with which it can drain the blood of its opponent. Despite its gaseous form and incorporeal subtype, a crimson death can physically lift objects and creatures as if it were solid.^[1][2] For this reason, Crimson Deaths tend to be quite fond of kidnapping potential victims and dragging the unfortunates back to their lairs to be consumed.^[2]

Crimson deaths can be encountered in the domains of Avonleigh.^[3], Hazlan^[4][5], and Sithicus^[6]. In the Shadow Rift, crimson deaths can be encountered in the Black Marsh.^[7]

Descriptive Text

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Around the fire, our guide told us of a strange kind of phantom, and he was irritated that we had a hard time believing him. But here’s his story. He was a soldier before this arm wound forced him to do something else for a living. He said his regiment once was searching for a lost soldier in light moors, and suddenly they found a thick patch of water weeds that held the corpses of many beings, floating in the weeds. He said may be twenty dead bodies were there. Then they heard a splashing noise in the back on the group: one of their comrades just fell in the water and started yelling in pain. Panic spread to the group as they saw a hideous fog creature holding to the man, its white-red color slowly changing from to blood red, like if the phantom was draining his blood… They ran away from the place, leaving their friend, and without fighting it. I’ve never heard of an incorporeal bloodsucker before, and never since then, so I wonder if this was a tall tale, but our guide seemed to believe what he was telling us.

- An adventurer’s journal in Darkon.^[8]

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