Category:Undead
Canon Information
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The undead are creatures who were once alive, died, and yet still haunt the world, reanimated by negative energy. Many forms of undead exist, ranging from the completely mindless skeleton to the completely free-willed and vastly intelligent lich to the very human seeming vampire to the utterly incorporeal spectre.
In the case of undead with no physiological feeding requirements, say a ghost or a zombie, all the energy they will ever need is supplied to them via their connection with the Negative Energy Plane. Were this connection to be temporarily severed, they would become perfectly inert. Indeed a vampire struck through the heart with a stake has most probably had its connection with the Negative Energy Plane temporarily severed and it remains inert as long as the stake remains in place. Undead with physiological feeding requirements can be starved of energy, variously weakening them severely, rendering them inert, or even destroying them.
The Demiplane of Dread offers the undead substantial boons and protections not seen in other realms. For example, if targeted by spells that detect thoughts such as Detect Thoughts, sentient undead can mask their thoughts with whatever they please.[1][2][3]. Against spells such as Detect Undead, the undead may attempt Will saves (or the equivalent) to be avoid notice altogether.[4][5][6] The Land of Mists may offer the undead some kind of defensive boon against a handful of spells or effects that specifically target the undead, such as a bonus on saving throws against Disruption Weapons.[7] Within sinkholes of evil, a cleric finds it much harder to turn the undead.[8][9][10] Finally, certain undead may have unusual salient powers not seen in other realms.
Undead are found throughout the Demiplane of Dread. In the domain of Barovia, any kind of undead save liches may be encountered[11][12]. In the domains of Darkon[13][14], Sanguinia[15], Sithicus[16][17], and Valachan[18][19] any variety of undead may be encountered. Any variety of undead could be encountered in the former domain of Gundarak, and thus may now be encountered in Barovia and Invidia[20]. In the domain of Keening, any form of undead can be encountered, save liches and those that must feed, such as vampires and ghouls[21][22]. Any form of undead may be encountered in Mordent, though vampires and liches avoid the area around Gryphon Hill[23][24]. In Souragne, any undead may be encountered, though only weaker undead such as skeletons and zombies appear with any frequency to be called "incidental" encounters.[25]
References
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.182
- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.94-95, 98
- ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.108, 111
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.180-181
- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.98
- ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.111
- ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.120
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.263
- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.94
- ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.107
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 65
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 10
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 68
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 13
- ↑ Realm of Terror (Black Boxed Set) p. 84
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 79
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 31
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 81
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 32
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 72
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 75
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 21
- ↑ Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 77
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 25
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p.41
Subcategories
This category has the following 200 subcategories, out of 238 total.
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- Advanced Kurak (empty)
- Akikage (empty)
- Alhoon (2 P)
- Allip (empty)
- Angel of Decay (empty)
- Animal Ghost (5 P)
- Ansasshia (empty)
- Aquatic Remnant (empty)
- Arayashka (1 P)
- Arcane Head (empty)
- Archer Skeleton (empty)
- Ashen Husk (1 P)
- Avaricio (empty)
- Azeman (empty)
B
- Bane Wraith (empty)
- Banedead (empty)
- Baneguard (empty)
- Bardic Lich (1 P)
- Bastellus (2 P)
- Beholder Vampire (1 P)
- Berbalang (empty)
- Bhut (empty)
- Bird of Death (empty)
- Blackskate (empty)
- Bladewight (1 P)
- Blaspheme (1 P)
- Blazing Bones (empty)
- Bleakborn (empty)
- Blighted Relic (empty)
- Blood Amniote (empty)
- Bloodhulk Crusher (empty)
- Bloodhulk Giant (empty)
- Bloodmote Cloud (empty)
- Bluebeard's Spectral Wives (2 P)
- Bodak (3 P)
- Bone Collector (Template) (empty)
- Bone Naga (empty)
- Bone Rat Swarm (empty)
- Boneclaw (empty)
- Boneless (1 P)
- Bonespur (Undead) (empty)
- Boneyard (1 P)
- Bony Hands (empty)
- Bowlyn (3 P)
- Brain in a Jar (1 P)
- Bussengeist (2 P)
C
- Cannibal Zombie (empty)
- Carcass Hound (empty)
- Cauldron Spawn (empty)
- Cavitius Reaver (empty)
- Celtic Banshee (empty)
- Cemetery Spirit (empty)
- Cerebral Vampire (8 P)
- Chanak (empty)
- Charnel Hound (empty)
- Chiang-shi Vampire (2 P)
- Chindi (empty)
- Chiroptawraith (empty)
- Cinderspawn (empty)
- Clerical Lich (2 P)
- Cloud of Bones (empty)
- Common Animator (empty)
- Common Mist Horror (empty)
- Composite Walking Dead (2 P)
- Coraltan (1 P)
- Corpse Candle (2 P)
- Corpse Gatherer (empty)
- Corpse Rat Swarm (empty)
- Crimson Bones (2 P)
- Crimson Death (1 P)
- Crypt Cat (empty)
- Crypt Chanter (empty)
- Crypt Thing (empty)
D
- Deadly Vengeance Bone Weapon (empty)
- Dearg-Due Saugh (empty)
- Death Knight (8 P)
- Death's Heads (Detached) (empty)
- Death's Horsemen (3 P)
- Deathbringer (empty)
- Deathlock (empty)
- Deathshrieker (empty)
- Defacer (empty)
- Defiler Demilich (empty)
- Desert Vampire (1 P)
- Desiccator (empty)
- Doedridere (empty)
- Dracolich (2 P)
- Dread Flesh Scarecrow (1 P)
- Dread Warrior (empty)
- Dream Vestige (empty)
- Dream Wraith (1 P)
- Drider Lich (empty)
- Drow Lich (empty)
- Drow Vampire (empty)
- Drowned (Undead) (empty)
- Dust Wight (empty)
- Dwarven Vampire (3 P)
E
- Elemental Demilich (empty)
- Elite Skeleton (empty)
- Entomber (Undead) (empty)
- Entropic Reaper (empty)
- Ephemeral Swarm (empty)
- Evolved Undead (1 P)
F
- Fael (empty)
- Famine Spirit (empty)
- Fire Zombie (empty)
- Flameskull (empty)
- Fog Cadaver (empty)
- Forlorn Husk (empty)
- Forsaken Shell (empty)
- Frost Vampire (1 P)
G
- Ghast (12 P)
- Ghost Brute (3 P)
- Ghost Pegasus (empty)
- Ghoul Lord (9 P)
- Giant Ant Skeleton (empty)
- Giant Stag Beetle Skeleton (empty)
- Giant Tick Skeleton (empty)
- Gnoll Scavenger (empty)
- Gnomish Vampire (1 P)
- Goblin Vampire (empty)
- Gossamer Saugh (empty)
- Gravetouched Ghoul (4 P)
- Greater Animator (1 P)
- Greater Dread Wight (empty)
- Greater Geist (2 P)
- Greater Mummy (9 P)
- Greater Shadow (empty)
- Griefmote Cloud (empty)
- Grimweird (1 P)
H
- Halfling Vampire (1 P)
- Haunt (3 P)
- Heinfroth's Shadow (empty)
- Heucuva (4 P)
- Hive Skeleton (empty)
- Horrific Vasuthant (empty)
- Hulking Corpse (empty)
I
- Illithid Vampire (2 P)
J
- Jahi (empty)
- Jolly Roger (3 P)
K
- Kalij (empty)
- Karrnathi Skeleton (empty)
- Karrnathi Zombie (empty)
- Kender Vampire (1 P)
L
- Lacedon (1 P)
- Lesser Bonedrinker (empty)
- Lhiannan Shee (2 P)
- Life Bane Moth (empty)
- Lilliender Vampire (1 P)
- Lobishomen (empty)
- Lord Soth's 13 Banshees (3 P)
- Lost Soul (empty)
- Lost Spirit (G'Hennan) (empty)
M
- Mealy-Eyes (empty)
- Meld Monster (empty)
- Minor Animator (empty)
- Mirror Wraith (empty)
- Mist Ferryman (1 P)
- Mist Zombie (empty)
- Mohrg (Undead) (empty)
- Morts-Qui-Dancent (6 P)
- Mourner (empty)
- Mud Zombie (empty)
- Muduat (1 P)
- Mummified Creature (3 P)
- Murk (empty)
N
- Necromental (2 P)
- Necronaut (empty)
- Necropolitan Ghoul (2 P)
- Necropolitan Shadow (3 P)
- Necropolitan Skeleton (4 P)
- Necropolitan Wight (5 P)
Pages in category "Undead"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 753 total.
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R
- Radaga
- Rafail
- Rage (Geist)
- Ramya Vasavadan
- Ratik Ubel
- Ratik Ubel's Shadow
- Red Eye (NPC)
- Redfist
- Reeve Alexandr Korsakov
- Reeve Gambia Mott
- Reeve Jomo Rockwell
- Reeve Polybia Latuer
- Renoir
- Ricae
- Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen
- Rivalin ApTosh
- Robard and Davi
- Robart
- Roberta Sweeton
- Rohmer
- Romeo Giacamo Galli (NPC)
- Rosalee Graben
- Rosavalda "Rose" Durst
- Rual
- Ruinnoake
- Rula Barcliff
- Rutternettle
S
- Sabag
- Sachmet
- Sagesse
- Salania Leafskipper
- Salizarr
- Saloi Asani
- Samuel (Swordsman)
- Sareth
- Sari Florica
- Sebastian Blutkalte
- Second Mate "Black Joan" Hargrave
- Senmet
- Sentinel Claus Volneychev
- Serinida Brecht
- Shanshirron D’Oltier
- Shar'Izdul
- Sheila the Wight Queen
- Shingol Tann
- Shura
- Silas (Dog)
- Simon LaFleur (NPC)
- Siobhan Glele
- Sir Andros Valkyrie
- Sir August Bleysmith
- Sir Godfrey Gwilym
- Sir Klutz Tripalotsky
- Sir Loran of Trollpyre Keep
- Sir Marcus Malvoy
- Sir Torrence Bleysmith
- Sir Trevor Godwyn
- Sister Evangeline
- Sivana
- Skeletal Dread Companion Template
- Smokehouse Rushlight
- Sobbing Spirit of the Black Tower
- Solbert
- Sophia Da Costa
- Spectral Hag Template
- Spreader of Fear
- Stadtfuhrer Georg von Austaat
- Stefania (Spectre)
- Stefán Ivannov
- Stigel
- Susannah Joson
- Suzanne Gordeaux
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- T'Lann
- Talaric Daoran
- Tania (Forgotten Shades)
- Tanner Edmund Jacobbi
- Tanya (Ghost)
- Tavnanda
- Teizala of the Bradolmar
- Teresa
- Teresa Bleysmith
- Tereza Ambrose
- Thalib al-Jahlah
- Thane
- The Alhoon (A Hundred Shades of Dark)
- The Alhoon of Gothic Earth
- The Amalgam
- The Ambient
- The Ash Man
- The Bannick Fog of Valachan
- The Beggar Woman
- The bestial zombie
- The Black Opal
- The Black Rider of Ulthewe
- The Bog Monster of Hroth
- The Counting Man of Barovia
- The Custodian
- The Dark Mourner
- The Death Skull
- The Eternal (NPC)
- The Evening Glory
- The Forsaken One
- The Ghost Dancer
- The Ghoul
- The Ghoul Lord
- The Glutton of G'Henna
- The Gnarled Man of Liara
- The Gray Lady of Invidia
- The Headhunter of Helbenik
- The Headless Geist
- The Headless Gypsy
- The Hungry Ghost
- The Lamenting Rake of Paridon
- The Last Mistress
- The Laughing Man
- The Laughing Pirate
- The Lilan
- The Little Ghost
- The Loud Man of Lamordia
- The Martyr of the Moors
- The Minotaur (A Hundred Shades of Dark)
- The Nobleman Ghost
- The Pale Herd
- The Pale Hog
- The Penticolfax
- The Phantom Highwayman
- The Priest of the Tor
- The Ragged Bard of Kartakass
- The Red-Robed Visitor
- The Reverend
- The Scalded Waif
- The Screaming Flame
- The Skinner of Vallaki
- The Spider
- The Spindle of Richemulot
- The Spirits of the Bell
- The Strangling Man of Gundarak
- The Thundering Carriage
- The Unborn
- The Undead Beast
- The Unnamed
- The Valachan Miser
- The Valpurleiche of Hangman's Walk
- The Vapir
- The White Reeve
- The White Wizard
- The Withered Trapper of Tepest
- The Zombie Beekeeper
- Theona Helsvar
- Thinn Balder
- Thoris Tregart
- Canon
- Speculation
- Native Monster of Barovia
- Native Monster of Darkon
- Native Monster of Gundarak
- Native Monster of Invidia
- Native Monster of Keening
- Native Monster of Mordent
- Native Monster of Sanguinia
- Native Monster of Sithicus
- Native Monster of Souragne
- Native Monster of Valachan
- Reanimated
- Re-energized
- Monster
- The Undead
- Undeath
- Religious Lore
- Knowledge (religion)