Category:Deathlock

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Deathlocks are corporeal undead with a variety of minor spell-like abilities. One story of their origins tells of corpses of former spellcasters that become so infused with magical energy they reanimate as undead with their spellcasting transformed but with most memories of their previous lives stripped away.^[1] Another version explains them as warlocks that broke their pacts in life and thereby are reanimated by their patrons to serve in death.^[2]Finally, it has also been speculated they might be the result of failed attempts at achieving lich status.^[3]

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… red with blood, Ah! Ah! The petty necromancer also wrote me from his island about another strange unwanted effect when one worthy wizard is trying to become a lich. Sometimes, the wizard fails to attain this higher state of mind, but instead of being destroyed, it becomes something N. calls a “deathlock”. He describes it as a spell casting corpse of minor abilities, but who has lost its once keen mind and wishes the destruction of all things instead of the continuation of its arcane researches. It will even destroy its whole library¸ research facilities and all it has built in its wizard life.

Becoming insane, another pathetic peril those jailers have found to block us from our shining destiny. Ah! But this warning happens to late for me, for you see already …

-On a torn paper found in Il Aluk^[4]

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