Undead

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Undead

(Creature)

2E1E

Common

Undead

Level

Varies

Alignment

Varies

Images of undead

Source: Player Core, pg(s). 363

Type

Undead

CR

Varies

Environment

Any

Alignment

Varies

Images of undead

Source: Bestiary 2, pg(s). 305

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Undead are once-living creatures animated by spiritual or supernatural forces, chiefly void energy or unholy magic that corrupted a recently departed soul. Undead can be either mindless or intelligent. Undead may be colloquially referred to as the walking dead.

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Types of undead

Undead can be categorized in four ways:

• Consummate undead
• Hungry undead
• Incorporeal undead
• Mindless undead

On Golarion

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In the Inner Sea region

Creating and transporting undead creatures is illegal in most nations of the Inner Sea region (with Geb being the most prominent exception). The state of undeath is considered a severe moral crime as it violates both a person's body and soul.

A network of smugglers attempts to circumvent these prohibitions, however, as the mindless undead make for tireless and inexpensive unskilled laborers; a humanoid skeleton can cost as little as 45 gold pieces. Such black-market undead are typically created by profiteering arcane necromancers rather than those that already serve cults or worshipers of evil deities, or hard-to-control spontaneously created undead.

Necrografting

The practice of necrografting, also illegal outside of Geb, replaces living body parts or organs with those of undead bodies, often to grant the recipient some of the donor's physical or supernatural abilities—or more nefariously, to warp the unwilling in horrific experiments.

References

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