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  1. Creatures

Dwarf Banshee

Undead

Terrain: Any

Frequency: Uncommon

# Appearing: 1

Dwarves who die before completing a major focus are often condemned to live out their afterlives as banshees. In unlife they haunt their unfinished work or quest, unable to bear the fact that someone else may complete what they could not. Day or night, the pupils of their eyes flicker red as if a flame burns them from within. A dwarven banshee’s appearance changes as soon as the transformation from life to undeath begins. The skin rots away leaving the underlying muscles exposed. The muscle turns brown if exposed to sunlight and sand; if protected or underground, it becomes gray or moldy in color. The dwarven banshee remembers all of the languages that it knew when it was alive.

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Combat

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Dwarven banshees retain all aspects and equipment of their former self the time of death. Trapped between the lands of the living and the dead, dwarven banshees are semi-material and can only be hit by magical or steel weapons. The dwarven banshee also has the ability to curse its victim. During the day, a dwarven banshee combines its cursed gaze attack with a physical one. If eye contact is made, the victim may fly into a berserker rage. This rage causes the victim to attack it’s friends rather than the banshee. Once per night, the dwarven banshee can wail a cursed battle cry or malediction. All within earshot may possibly fall into the berserker rage. Fire, water, and air based attacks only partially affect a dwarven banshee though earth based are especially effective. Because of its single-mindedness, psionic powers and spells affecting the mind are ineffective. When the dwarven banshee’s physical corpse is destroyed, the remainder crumbles to dust. If the dwarfs unfulfilled focus is not destroyed or somehow completed, this banshee returns to full strength at the next sunset.

Habitat/Society

The approach of a living individual within a mile causes the banshee to rise, regardless of the time of day. It remains alert as long as the intruder remains within the area. The banshee often watches and waits to see what action the individual or party takes before attacking.

Ecology

Dwarven banshees only want to protect what was theirs. Fables say that the seventh son of a seventh son may lay a dwarven banshee to rest by finishing a focus for it. Elders say the flames within dwarven banshees’ eyes originate from some ancient dwarven forge or the elemental plane of fire.

STATS

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