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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.
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