100 Necromancers and Their Plots 6

100 Necromancers and their Plots 6. Helosia Tremastag A grim beauty dwells in a ruined temple outside of town and is trying to drain beauty from other maidens. Her giant 1. Kustarg Durmargis undead ravens kidnap the girls from their beds. A middle aged necromancer who sets his students to work 7. Lady Marsia Beradee building a defence force of basic undead. From his Bathes in blood of young girls to retain her beauty. Her underground lair he has been seeking to plumb the secrets servants are helping her and she spends far too much time of a well reputed to hold a fragment of a dead god. with pretty young men to perfect the process. Any men 2. Dr Nosterang Barlanth who see her change to her true age her servants kill. Her A portly bespectacled dissections and flesh golem maker incomplete research keeps turning up after her destruction, has students grave robbing terrorising locals who fear spreading the cycle of death forever. relatives bodies being robbed. A pit filled with reject 8. Kiasaar Mendloth creations has started to make lots of noises. Had all her kin die in a plague but has returned them as 3. Lady Pahrzethra Molochi undead to serve her. She tries to cover it with illusions and A beautiful widow has been poisoning young men about invites travelers into her luxurious but dusty and a bit town to be her undead consorts, her students procure her stinky home. If they see the true horror she sets her kin to the bodies of those who she kills from afar. Locals are eat the defilers. living in fear and young men are fleeing the area. 9. Pariziah Kogoranth 4. Polhardrig Meshtaron A scrawny old man dwells beneath a ruined old house and Has been local undertaker for decades and now feels has developed a way to create minor phantoms which are locals are living lives contrary to the dead in his care. He spreading around the community. While not actually has adopted the title of death master in his senility and his deadly many live in terror and some have had grisly undead goons kidnap an punish locals for petty sins. accidents while fleeing. 5. Klardrag Menglestien Leads a secret black school working on a great undead colossus to rule the land. His students steal corpses and rob graves and rend the parts for the great project. As local corpses running low, they are now on murdering spree. 10. Dongelldenna Chrastell 15. Vorgnarg Terrill A deranged student wizard has been trying to A frustrated theatre manager who studied necromancy communicate with wights beneath a barrow near town. under his uncle as a youth. When his troop performed She does not realise she has awakened dozens of wights badly he poisoned them all and made them zombies. His who will soon arise en mass and destroy everyone for shows hide smell with incense but if exposed he will have miles. She is committed to her study and believes the dead to kill audience or any witnesses too. are misunderstood. When killed she arises as a spell 16. Talask Vorquiem casting wight. An astronomer using zombies with abacuses to perform 11. Largan Arbatt calculus. If bothered he miscounts and destroys dolts who A handsome romantic heart stealer attracts beautiful girls ruin his project. and keeps their hearts beating in bell jars and makes their 17. Dolazok Maarz bodies his zombie concubines. A long dead necromancer placed his spirit in a ring found 12. Lamardis Parmaj by a yokel ferryman Yars Tlinker. Now Yars has funny A local respectable merchant with wife and four kids who blackouts where he tips passengers in and drowned dead daily teleports across world to kill and murder for his pulls them under the river for a future army. colonial empire over tribal people in secret. 18. Maboath Trahn 13. Herizah Matonis From his ruined swamp sunk palace sends dreams across A lovely maiden who steals victims shadows and if the world to lure victims into his service. bothered releases them as undead Shadows. If driven off 19. Mahalia Terazzovan by priest they return naturally if killed character loses Keeps a pit of undead children she madly believes are shadow forever. getting a second chance at life. She tricks people to search 14. Kandibar Tolloses the pit for treasure to feed them. If her children are killed A sweet Young woman who has been stealing towns pets she flies into a mad rage. and robbing pet graves to make a horde of killer undead 20. Rolagadad Menzarl critters she loves. If discovered she tries to kill those who Runs a zombie sweatshop producing cheap inferior goods. find out. Local merchants and guilds seek an end to this economic peril and seek adventurers. 21. Panzarian Kellogmash 26. Trollek Barnjtard A pretty albino noble seeks beautiful dancers to serve in Has developed means of making regenerating zombies and his troop of undead ballet performers. A few bards for plans to test them on a village one night. He also requires orchestra needed too. From his castle undead giant bats troll blood and has upset local trolls who may aid heroes seize suitable victims his agents find. out to stop him. 22. Minaque Kodzolt 27. Parnara Willstone A traveling salesman has been selling undead repellent, if A beautiful but evil aristocrat has contacted shadow beings locals don't buy they strangely find zombies scratching at from the other world. Great winged pterodactyl shadows their door by night. from the dawn age are hers to command. She uses them to slay political and magical rivals. 23. Varius Mataan Found a crypt of mummified cats and raised them as an 28. Carnaria Danzral army to serve him, he dresses in an ancient crypt dressed A wicked necromancer queen vanished long ago before in finery guarded by mummified lions. the mob could find and burn her. Recently her full length mirror was purchased by a young warlock who has been 24. Tozikhaan Meldoth Follows adventurers with a wagon and collects bodies to using her techniques. A pocket world in her mirror has use in his experiments. "I'm not as bad as bastards who kill everything a necromancer might need but fresh corpses them". Has robed zombie guards when follows party into and victims to molest. dungeon, always polite to adventurers. 29. Tarquil Venger Has built a tower of headstones offending clerics from all 25. Kodlizok Bandashikag Likes to pit adventurers against his latest undead faiths. Inside he has gate to underworld where he plunders constructs, if heroes win he teleports away to build lost lore and treasure from the dead. something bigger and better till he wins. Then find new 30. Zargan Mackmoth adventurers. He dwells in a ruined castle at the end of the Collects severed wizard heads he can extract spells from world. and talk to. Friends of the murdered wizards have noted Zargan's use of secret spells he could not have developed. In his lair he has attached some heads to bugbear bodies to use as guardians. 31. Norath the Unquenchable 36. Targan Nightfang Sends out his undead to kidnap maidens for miles around Dwells with his pet giant spiders and makes undead from to present them as a gift to Orcus in return for spellbooks the cobweb mummified bodies they leave after snacking. seized by the demon prince long ago. Many prisoners are ensnared in his tower and he keeps them or conversation, letting his pets eat them when bored 32. Calaria Zanadar Has developed a taste for human brains she believes make of them. her smarter. Of late she has been laughing uncontrollably 37. Dolram Karmung and has become morbidly obese. Her undead ambush From his castle sends undead to slay the weak, illiterate, travelers and seize only their heads. diseased or anyone he feels is unworthy of life. His judgements are increasingly bizarre and he claims he 33. Zumdish Cadnaver Has been convincing people that undead made from makes the local people superior for his efforts. criminals is totally legit. Villages use them as labour and 38. Veerkam Meek are getting used to walking blasphemies among them. His A school teacher has become sick of being bullied and ran zombie scribes have published elegantly convincing to the hills with some necromantic tomes from the vaults brochures that have become popular discussion. He has in his town library. Undead now carry off those who means to control them all and see through their eyes. mocked him. 34. Terloc Bonebane 39. Arkam Zaragang Has built terrible self mobile siege engines from skeletons A failed adventurer now leads his dead comrades as that have been tested on isolated villages. His bone tower undead. He keeps repairing them and bringing them back is defended by skeletons and bone golems. He likes only and together they loot local dungeons. You might meet very skinny women so he keeps several locked up and him one day. starving in his dungeon. 35. Zaria Hellstrom Spurned by men for being scrawny has unleashed terrible famines with clouds that destroy crops so everyone will starve and look like her. The evil cloud creatures guard her and she calls them her babies. 40. Modren Kragmoth 44. Lorinda Katzenkeller Failed poet fled to the mountains in shame after his last Has prospered under tutelage of her hellcat and needs to recital was ridiculed. Since then bards and poets in area really earn a place in hell. She has traveled the land killing have all been killed with vampire like wounds. Villagers populations of orphanages for some dark unrevealed wisely staked them and debate if Modren was lucky or if reason to serve her masters bidding. She poses as a giver killer wouldn't think him talented enough to kill. Modren of charity and gives poisoned candy and mummy rot hoping to be welcomed back as surviving artist became diseased blankets. She is guarded by several lesser enraged by this and plans to kill whole population in invisible devils unbeknown to her. revenge. 45. Haggia Marandra 41. Morkirim Blagthorn A wicked she monster rides the sky in a flying giants A dark elf necromancer turning farmers and beasts into skull, killing travelers for sport. Her favorite schemes zombies and deliver produce to dark elves. He has taken involve tormenting, kidnapping and mistreating over several farms; somebody must find his tree fort and youngsters, sometimes using their own dead parents. kill him. 46. Toroth the Magnificent 42. Captain Horton Stagchester Dwells in a ruined temple of a forgotten god and makes A retired sea captain and black magician sends his zombie his zombies and skeletons worship him. He insanely crewed ship out to trade human captives for fishmen gold. believes he has cheated the gods and now demands his Locals disappear while he gets richer. ‘followers’ sacrifice the living to him. 43. Caspan Ranadivek 47. Kajvang Makkaran A miserly old mine owner drove off his miners so used The great beast is hated by civilised clergy but travels necromancy to raise the miners from the site grave pit to from court to court contacting the dead kin of kings work the pit. A pleading phantom begs passers by the seeking advice. He spreads vice, corruption and evil mine road for aid freeing the damned men. philosophy and many rulers and young aristocrats adore him and provide for his defence. 48. Picaron Mellonwarg 51. Xiarg Krunn A not-so-horrible man is using undead to dredge the river A foreign drug and slave lord who works from beneath the for lost treasure, from Goldstream Creek. This waterway city with his cult the Black Lotus. He is one of several cuts through ancient dungeons deep in the mountains. immortal magicians who serve the cult, representing them Unfortunately he has found remnants of an ancient in this land. He corrupts the city officials and turns the warlock and revived them by accident. The evil warlock poor districts into criminal gangland slums. The hidden assumes his form to commit atrocities while Picaron is temple is guarded by undead and he personally has several unaware of troubles. devil guards serving hells interests. 49. Corigaar Kemenos 52. Orebus Kantellow Was robbed of his title in a brutal succession and wants Began life as a apprentice funeral director who has been revenge. He has spent years preparing a plan to drive the studying the black arts on the side. Instead of burying men mad before killing them. Kidnapping their heirs, people he makes them do all his chores. If discovered he robing their ceremonial regalia, haunting them with kills witnesses and his master and accuses them of the victims of their past murders. The rulers need adventurers crime. Given time he will dominate his field in a large to kill Corigaar and silence history forever. city, with his own underworld undead sweatshop. 50. Trengath Vanz 53. Zandra Kellmorris Preaches he is an enlightened biomancer, a man of science An attractive adventuress seeks to join parties claiming and reason who regenerates the wounded, heals diseased only the dead and undead for research and any and all manner of miracles. Actually he is coning them necromancer magic. She is charming, competent and and killing the originals using an artifact that belongs to helpful, taking occasional breaks to her ancestral home pre human slavers. He replaces important persons who and lab. She even controls a zombie dire wolf as a pack serve him. Flesh golems, mutants and mimics serve him beast and will carry party treasure, her plans are bigger along with undead. than the party and they don't rate in the scheme of things so she is always honorable to them. 54. Lorrisa Makkesh 58. Henagas Thrumpengarg Seeks to end chaos by killing that which lives, following Seeks the wand of Orcus and will kill to get it. He and his in her uncles demented lawful philosophy. She means no students, cultists and undead servitors kill scholars, raid malice but her army cleanses the land of all life and universities and murder respected holy folk in his quest to spreads disease. She has many underworld sponsors who learn anything he can. A bounty is finally raised offering a wish her well and send her servitor beings to protect her. great reward for his head. She wields Doomreaper, a level draining scythe. 59. Porja Krunkenzel 55. Lars Falconstien A cruel mistress of the darkness who has undead agents A fiendish dealer in secrets and espionage. His undead kill are hidden by illusions of being living till too late. She is other agents then he questions the dead and sells their replacing local nobility and working her way up, using her secrets. Unfortunately a victims employer sought an oracle influence to be invited to court so she may flirt with and now their is a rich reward on the necromantic royalty. Once in power and a rich widow or even a queen spymaster. His lair is filled with skulls that he may see she will unleash horror on the world. through using a spell of his invention. 60. Kristobel Sarrithar 56. Karmana Delorian Lost everything when her family were burned for heresy. A hideous hag likes to curse newborn heirs of the Spared as she was a child she ran away with her imp kingdoms so as to keep dynasties fearful of her pay her familiar and learned her craft. Now she kills those who ransoms. Finally she asked for too much and the nobility slew her family then the whole kingdom will pay. She has of normally hostile clans seek heroes to kill her. a powerful high level Dawntime scroll she believes will lay waste to the region making all under 5 HP life save or 57. Zormarg Thunn Runs a secret school for black magic and its use is being die. seen more and more often in cheap, flashy and grotesque 61. Mogrug Tharjbrut ways. Undead are being used for a quick buck. The clergy A thug and savage with more brains than most. are fed up and want the school burned and teaching staff Recognised by his now dead master from a gang urchin he killed. learned all he could before killing his teacher and taking his old gang. None know the gang employ death magic and are evolving into a clan of magical assassins. 62. Cylena Taveraad 66. Cherop Mandaarzan Rules a tiny cave kingdom hidden in the underland. There Seeks a lover for his undead master, a foul mummy from she enslaves her mole people and albinos into a hierarchy the ancient world when men and demons mingled more. enforced by her undead. The molefolk mine and gather With a gang of beast headed mummies he has made they food while the humans serve her and worship her. kidnap poor victims for his teacher. Recently an ancient well to the surface has opened and she 67. Zondar Kragnorn sends undead molemen to kidnap surface people to renew Has wanderers the world for aeons and now if he cant die her peoples bloodline. She also steals their youth to secure then everyone else will. His undead agent are looting her beauty. sealed ancient megaliths to find fragments of an ancient 63. Valtar Dysen evil god he plans to resurrect. He hopes it will kill Is obsessed with puppets and theatre but local priests shut everybody and him too. He was cursed to live and now hid demented shows down. Now his army of dancing finds it a maddening burden. undead beastmen, ghoul princesses and zombie rats have 68. Krissiara Thantan come to destroy the town. Was spurned by a cad and now wants all men dead or 64. Aldrass Menyar undead period. Her army is growing but none suspect her, A sexual pervert has been building flesh golems for his a rich noble widow of being to blame. When people own sexual needs. His undead kidnap women with the realize only men being killed males panic and go on witch most desirable parts and bring them to him to use as parts. burning frenzy if she isn’t stopped. His lair is a palace of unimaginable depravity and sexual 69. Cinnibar Moontree horror. Has been summoning other worldly lovers to her 65. Cadir Harrad bedchamber. Fed up with mere humans not respecting her Has travelled the world and discovered other forms of romantic epics about herself, she has called on the death of ghouls from far off lands. Unlike local creatures some can the leading writers and literate persons of the land. disguise as humans, while others are black hairy beasts of Scribes, bookmakers, printers all in the written trades are the dark. Locals are clueless about such new monsters and her victims. Most become undead monsters and run riot don't even realize undead are to blame. Some of her till killed. Locals are turning on the literate. monster harass party and they witness one of the apparent unconnected violent tragedies which they may find a link. 70. Chrassus Bloodtoungue 75. Vorsus Blackfang A sophisticated cannibal seeks to taste all races, ages and A master poisoner who uses unseen servants to poison creeds for comparison and exotic adventurers might just others then he robs them. He started small but works be the thing. His lover the ghoul queen supports him with himself to killing small towns with necrotic gas. ghouls in droves. Nowadays he uses undead to hurl barrels of venom into wells by night. He may even pretend to be a victim of 71. Hrastus Nightspear Wields a terrible black level-draining staff that feeds her poison to throw of investigators. power. She has been on a murder spree but in between 76. Mysteriosa dwells in a city crypt with her mummy lover. A sadistic masked beauty who steals from grave goods with her ghoul servants. She revels in the wealth and 72. Ganron Fragglaris Specializes in making undead burrowing insects which he mostly hordes it. She has just begun to run out of rich uses to break walls down for his orc and beastmen allies. pickings and now seeks rich travelers. 77. 73. Noisetta Palengmar Kaeg Maalor Was tired of being told to be quiet by male necromancers Has developed use of human skin vellum undead skin like so she developed means to ritually torture a elfmaid to scrolls, so he has been skinning victims and making create banshees. Her first use when she killed all her rival skinless zombies his servants. Locals don’t appreciate his members at their all male club. Now she has been doing it innovation. to wipe out frontier villages then raises them to be her 78. Bhuttran Gehesporg slaves – she will only deal with female spell casters. Has erected a huge quivering tower of living flesh filled with undead infested slimy tunnels. He lives in his horror 74. Herog Ghaantrey Is building a land leviathan of stone, bone and twisted ecology of undead meat to the living world outside. The flesh to lead his armies, a mobile Ziggurat of necrotic evil tower has been moving and has crushed several farms power. He is preparing and army to escort it but plucky do raising attention of locals. gooders might stop him before it becomes mobile. 79. Funesirra Doneseris 83. Dorrisa Klagwar Lives in a sunken funeral barge thanks to his ring of water Thinks zombies just need a makeover to make acceptable, breathing. He now sends his monsters to raid coastal and she soaks them in fragrant oil and spice, does their hair river side areas. His sea undead ride undead dolphins and with ribbons and flowers and gives them nice frocks. bring him riches and more loot. He uses sea elf spellbook- Villagers still not impressed so she now plans to kill hem making techniques. all. 80. Vothrang Arbest 84. Mortserg Blatzentarg Tried to befriend elves but they found him a repulsive Has evidence world is made from corpse of a primordial loser. Now he hunts and kills them for undead and has beast killed by gods and plans to restore it to life. He has even made undead from sylvan creatures, plants and more. been gathering artifacts and remains of gods to aid his In his lab he building a horror from many beings he research. So far he has just caused earthquakes but local believes will host his spirit some day. priests have dreams that the end is coming. 81. Serra Vrontarg 85. Kalam Orrives Keeps undead wolfs to steal livestock and kill peasants Has raised several undead giants and is gathering more. who complain about him. His terror increases over the Locals don't believe he means well and have raised a puny area and vampire lords have sent him two vampire wolves reward to stop him. to serve him. 86. Rystella Junidrang 82. Penell Grumfrug A great beauty had her favorite pony die and has become a Has zombie and skeleton labour on his farm. Occasionally necromancer. Now her skeleton tended stables are full of a pig eats a zombie but business is mostly good, he thinks, undead steeds. Pleased about this and angry at world for with no wages. Chickens peck chunks off zombies and letting ponies die she leads her nightmare cavalry to lay cows lick salty excretions on skeletons. Bits of workers waste to villagers. Her own pony has been enhanced and drop in and contaminate the food. His inferior corpse even has a huge bone horn like a parody of a unicorn. tainted products have caused some health problems and Druids and elves have put price on her head, while other sickness and a lynch-mob want party to help them end world craving necromancers seek to woo her to gain this. cavalry force. 87. Eristrara Behthoroth 91. Gondra Snaggletooth Has her zombies enhanced by hobgoblin smiths with Is the last of a clan of wicked magicians driven into caves spikes, amour, built in weapons, and even suicide models generations ago. Cannibal bandits often degenerate and with explosives. Building her experimental army of inbred or even mutated are all that remain of clan, only he necrocyborgs but needs testing by killing travelers. still casts spells on human skin book deep in caves. He has new ambition for clan and they have been grave robbing to 88. Adiqqua Morsoth Is building a tower made of zombies and skeletons, bound build an army. by sinew and skin and bone to the moon. He hopes to 92. Eldremstarg conquer it and stay there. In the meantime he needs The wizard of Dungdale claims the village is haunted by thousands of bodies and nobody wants to volunteer. What an evil necromancer and pays them to kill him. The only is a poor necromancer to do? problem is that the villain is Eldremstarg’s own split personality who by night makes the streets unsafe. The 89. Klerndar Rumdash A clan of evil wreckers headed by this villain sink ships evil personality is prepared for the party and knows plenty and send out undead to drown survivors and help loot about them. When evil he wears a black hood. ship. Sharks were a problem but now some undead ones 93. Grundlaff the Black serve the clan. From their hidden cave they meddle with Uses zombie halflings to do his bidding, stealing magic lighthouses and place false signals to wreck ships. treasures and delivering them to him from all across the world. He pretends to be a kindly old codger who hangs 90. Robyn Nightbane A former bard turned to necromantic arts, played with an around fringes of hobbit areas when really he serves a dark undead orchestra but disappointing. Has kidnapped god and has promised him an evil relic if found. audiences she keeps in animated skeletons built as chairs 94. Radi Pemnock that hold prisoners and force them to watch and clap. Has perfected means of creating undead flying severed Prisoners are force fed and if die become new band heads and has created many variant spells. Locals members or chairs. Off beat undead are sent on tormented by flaming skulls, snapping zombie and ghoul kidnapping patrols. heads and more. Other necromancers sending apprentices and gold to buy these important discoveries. 95. Volrus Kantigen 99. Herogi Patamis A fabulously obese man with a palanquin hauled by Started making undead on sly as student to do his chores skeletons. He likes to eat roast zombie animals while his and went on studying forbidden lore for years before army raise villages to find him new foodstuffs. If killed his killing his master and taking the black books in his huge corpse bursts into a mess of parasites and surprised collection. Party sent by other wizard to seek information looking imps. from book to find wizard and most students dead and books gone. 96. Honourius Sangfen Was a teacher who's students so disappointed him he made 100. Goram Gorak them undead. Over years he has been attempting to teach Has been using undead vultures to trade spells across more intelligent undead spells with mixed success. world with other necromancers. Good wizards are alarmed Recently alarms when out when village priest killed by by progress of evil necromancers over last few years and ghouls with magic missile spells. His black school fallen spread of dark and lost ways. If hunted and killed in his into ruin and he dwells in cellar teaching ghouls and tower, roll 1d4+1 other necromancers on table who try to wights and rewards them with cutlets made from villagers, avenge or resurrect him. curious visitors and troublemakers. 97. Karag Slagfen Has travelled to north and made zombie walruses he has taken home and set loose in the swamps. Locals live in terror and Karag wondering what other exotic undead species relocations he can try. 98. Talinda Crowstharn Turned to craft when her familiar Mr Bunny killed. Now she surrounds herself at home in undead monsters – her new ‘bunnies’. She hires adventurers to get her monster corpses and should take some time before she shows her demented true nature. She might even flirt with a animal loving adventurer. Restoring Mr Bunny to life might make her reform.