Mummy
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A mummy is an undead humanoid typically created by a long and gruesome embalming process—mummification—which involves removing all the major organs from a corpse and replacing them with herbs and flowers. The body is then wrapped in bandages, and animated with magic.1[citation needed]
Description
A typical mummy is of low intelligence, and is generally used as a tomb guardian. However, it also possible to create free-willed mummies that retain some of the powers they possessed in life, such as spell-casting. These are often royalty that wish to extend their rule from beyond the grave and/or escape the fate that awaits them in the afterlife.
Mummies can pass on the feared disease/curse known as mummy rot.1[citation needed]
On Golarion
The art of creating mummies has been perfected in Osirion. The Osirion mummy has several special abilities.[citation needed]
Infamous mummies on Golarion include:
- Walkena, ruler of Mzali
- Some of the members of the Blood Lords, the government of Geb, are mummies.2
- Shielseis, Queen of Asps
- Pharaoh Sharsqa II, unawakened mummy
- Alexayn the Miser, one of the founders of the Aspis Consortium3
- Ossa Stormseer4
- Ankana
Variants
Mummy lords
Certain persons of high social standing or great wealth are sometimes transformed via mummification into undead of even greater potency. These creatures, generally referred to as mummy lords retain all the powers and abilities they possessed in their mortal lives, and are driven with an unquenchable desire to impose their will upon others.5
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Mummified creatures
Most living creatures with a body can be mummified through a similar embalming process, leading to a mummified creature distinct from mummies.6[citation needed]
Abilities
Mummified creatures are created through different means from other mummies—they keep their brain intact, are tattooed with hieroglyphs and a special controlling symbol, and are wrapped in hieroglyph-inscribed cloth. As such, they retain their intelligence, memories, and many of their other abilities, but are vulnerable to specific types of energy, such as electricity, acid, extreme heat or cold, or sonic energy. While mummified creatures do not spread mummy rot, their touch can disintegrate other creatures.6[citation needed]
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Iroran mummies
Some enlightened Irorans, most often monks, know in advance when they will die and use a diet of nuts and teas to prevent their corpses from decaying after death. In some cases, they reanimate as mummies to defend their temples. These extraordinarily rare, non-evil undead creatures are known as Iroran mummies.78
Bog mummies
Bog mummies— also known as swamp,9 peat, or mire mummies—are organically occurring mummies whose bodies are preserved not through an intentional mummification process but by the natural properties of a bog or swamp. Most animate as disease-carrying mummies out of a sense of betrayal or some other unfinished business.10
References
Paizo published a major article about mummification in Shifting Sands p68ff.
For additional as-yet unincorporated sources about this subject, see the Meta page.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 . “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary, 210. Paizo Inc., 2009
- ↑ . “Geb” in The Inner Sea World Guide, 77. Paizo Inc., 2011
- ↑ . “Mummy” in Classic Horrors Revisited, 43. Paizo Inc., 2010
- ↑ . “Mummy” in Classic Horrors Revisited, 44. Paizo Inc., 2010
- ↑ . “Bestiary” in Pyramid of the Sky Pharaoh, 84–85. Paizo Inc., 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 . “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary 4, 196. Paizo Inc., 2013
- ↑ . “Irori” in Tide of Honor, 70. Paizo Inc., 2012
- ↑ . “Chapter 3: Dragonslayers” in The Dragon's Demand, 44. Paizo Inc., 2013
- ↑ . “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary 5, 178. Paizo Inc., 2015
- ↑ . “Monsters A-Z” in Bestiary 2, 177. Paizo Inc., 2020
External links
- Mummy (real-life funeral practice) on Wikipedia
- Mummy (undead) (public domain entity) on Wikipedia