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A ghostly, moon-shaped comet flies above the water, a cloud of vapor and spectral lights trailing behind it._ **Spirits of Violence.** When sailors meet a violent end at sea within sight of the shore and leave no bodies behind to be buried, they...
An unnatural, cloying chill fills the air, and multiple ghostly hands burst from a wall to pummel and grab all within reach._ **Unassuming Horror.** The walled horror is an undead that appears to be a normal stretch of wall until it lashes out a...
The ghostly image of a healthy willow overlays a smaller tree composed of bones. Piles of bones litter the ground at its base._ **Death Tree.** When victims of murder or other violent deaths die in view of an otherwise healthy willow tree, their...
_With skin stretched like vellum over wizened limbs, a desiccated humanoid form clad in splendid regalia emerges from a funerary tower. Suddenly, the air becomes so dry as to make the eyes sting and lips crack. The imposing figure has yellow point...
_A body that might once have been human now has four legs and nightmarishly long, thick arms. What’s worse, its skin has been flayed off, revealing the dead muscle and sinew beneath._ **Spirt of War.** The risen reaver is an undead born from a w...
A small house cat gently purrs and twitches its tail. Suddenly it lets loose a blood-curdling yowl as it arches its back. An illusion gives way to the true creature: a rotting undead cat with glowing green eyes, long teeth, and claws like knives._...
_A luminous green mist swirls into the form of an ancient warrior. Dented armor and a ragged cloak enshroud the warrior’s skeletal body, and its grinning skull leers out from an open helm._ **Worn Finery.** Composed of faintly glowing green vapo...
_A rotting wind brings a chilling gust to the air, turning nearby foliage to rot and raising a sense of dread in all creatures in its path._ **Air of Tombs.** A rotting wind is an undead creature made up of the foul air and grave dust sloughed o...
_A pack of ghostly wolves appears in a swirl of greenish fog, seeming to coalesce from the fog itself._ When a pack of wolves dies of hunger or chill in the deep winter, sometimes the pack leader’s rage at a cruel death—or the summoning call of ...
_This humanoid wears robes to hide its corpselike pallor and lifeless gray hair. Fine, arm-length worms wriggle through abscesses in its flesh and its empty eye-sockets. It moves stooped over, with a shuffling gait, belying its speed and agility._...
_Sand silhouettes are spirits of those who died in desperation in sandy ground, buried during sandstorms, thrown into dry wells, or the victims of a dune collapse. Looking like a shadow stretched out along the ground, a sand silhouette’s erratic m...
_The frame of this withered demon’s corpse barely fills the ash-colored plate armor that encases it. It carries a serrated khopesh sword in spiked gauntlets that hiss with violet smoke, and a horned ivory mask devoid of features is nailed to its f...
_These twisted dryads have been turned into vampiric monstrosities by undead warlocks and vampiric experiments._ **Charred Dryads.** With burnt and blackened skin, burnt twigs for hair, and clawed hands and feet that resemble burnt and twisted r...
_A barefoot woman with long hair and almost transparent skin sits upon a willow branch. Her hair and clothing are wet, as if she has just returned from a swim. Her smile seems friendly enough._ When a woman drowns, her dripping body may rise aga...
_The sarcophagus opens to reveal an eerie, scintillating light. Wisps of gelid amber ectoplasm undulate outward from a quivering mass with a blackened skull at its center._ **Vigilant Slime.** Sarcophagus slimes are amorphous undead guardians pl...
_Mylings are the souls of the unburied, those who died in the forest from abandonment or exposure and can find no peace until their bodies are properly interred. Given the circumstances around their deaths, mylings tend to be solitary. They haunt ...
Medium Undead, CR 1. From Tome of Beasts.
Medium Undead, CR 1/4. From SRD 5.1.
Large Undead, CR 2. From SRD 5.1.
Medium Undead, CR 13. From SRD 5.1.
Large Undead, CR 1/2. From SRD 5.1.
_This withered creature wrapped in gore-stained rags. They can pull back a tattered hood to reveal glowing eyes hungry with bloodlust._ In certain tribes, the breaking of local taboos invites terrible retribution from ancestral spirits, especial...
Medium Undead, CR 1/2. From Tome of Beasts.
Medium Undead, CR 4. From Tome of Beasts 2023.