Bestiary · Creature type

Undead monsters

Undead are once-living creatures raised by necromancy or a curse: zombies, ghosts, vampires and liches. Many are immune to poison and resist necrotic damage, and they are the go-to choice for haunted ruins, cursed lands and slow-burn horror.

27 monsters
Morrgule
LargeUndeadCR 8

Morrgule

A Morrgule is a bloated knot of living shadow and pallid flesh, dragged from the Shadowfell and bound to mortal cultists with iron-thin chains of umbral will. It lurches with too-many-jointed limbs…

Neutral EvilForged 1 Nov 2026
Neroth Umbralist
MediumUndeadCR 8

Neroth Umbralist

A tall, robed figure whose edges bleed into darkness, the Neroth Umbralist strides from a rent between worlds with single-minded fury: to slaughter and remold living bodies into obedient shades. It…

Lawful EvilForged 1 Nov 2026
Morrowvex
MediumUndeadCR 8

Morrowvex

Morrowvex looks like a gaunt noble draped in a moth-eaten courtier's coat stitched with runes that glow sickly green; it speaks in rasping chords that seem to tug at the edges of the mind. It…

Neutral EvilForged 1 Nov 2026
Gorunoth
MediumUndeadCR 6

Gorunoth

Once a prince of courts and forges, Gorunoth now skulks through ruined vaults and ruined manses like a jeweler of bodies. He is terrifying because his hunger is matched by a cold, meticulous…

Neutral EvilForged 30 Oct 2026
Vorhesh, the Withered Regent
MediumUndeadCR 6

Vorhesh, the Withered Regent

Vorhesh is a gaunt silhouette of nobility: flesh slack around bone, a mane of pale hair like cobweb, and eyes like two drowned coins that glint when he tastes blood. Once a vampire of courtly…

Lawful EvilForged 30 Oct 2026
Ghulmir the Vigil
HugeUndeadCR 15

Ghulmir the Vigil

Ghulmir the Vigil is an immense, hulking mass of rotting flesh and sinew bound together by necromantic will. Where its body bulges and shifts, pouches of old treasure, rusted chain bits and coin…

Lawful NeutralForged 30 Oct 2026
Gutrim Sporewarden
MediumUndeadCR 5

Gutrim Sporewarden

A bloated dwarf corpse knit with pale fungal filaments, the Gutrim Sporewarden shambles with uncanny flexibility: its arms can unhinge at the elbow and snake outward like pale tentacles, grappling…

neutral evilForged 30 Oct 2026
Rukhash
LargeUndeadCR 6

Rukhash

Rukhash is a hulking, corpse-like giant whose broken iron manacles are fused into its wrists and shoulders; it lumbers with the slow inevitability of a siege engine and a hunger that drives it…

Neutral EvilForged 29 Oct 2026
Razghul
MediumUndeadCR 2

Razghul

Razghul is a gaunt, hunched revenant whose wrists are wrapped in rusted, broken manacles whose jagged links still bite into its flesh. Its eyes glow with a wet, phosphorescent hunger, and it moves…

Neutral EvilForged 29 Oct 2026
Harrowgourd
SmallUndeadCR 1/4

Harrowgourd

A Harrowgourd is a grinning scarecrow animated by spite and lantern-fire: a twisted bundle of hay and patched cloth bearing a carved, perpetually smoking pumpkin for a head. It lurches with jerky…

neutral evilForged 29 Oct 2026
Ossifex Sentinel
MediumUndeadCR 5

Ossifex Sentinel

A lattice of bones etched with black runes, the Ossifex Sentinel moves with a chill precision, each step whisper-quiet despite its hulking frame. Where its hollow eyes should be, pools of cold, slow…

Lawful EvilForged 29 Oct 2026
Sepulchral Sexton
LargeUndeadCR 5

Sepulchral Sexton

Six skeletal figures fused by iron bands and ghostly sinew stand arranged like a dark chorus around an altar, their empty eye-sockets filled with a cold inner light. When the Sexton moves, the bones…

lawful neutral (driven by warding enchantment)Forged 29 Oct 2026
Thargrin Ossuary
LargeUndeadCR 4

Thargrin Ossuary

A hulking skeleton whose ribcage bristles with pebbles and fist‑sized stones, the Thargrin Ossuary lumbers with surprising speed for its brittle frame and flings jagged rocks as if they were part of…

neutral evilForged 29 Oct 2026
Qashrul
LargeUndeadCR 3

Qashrul

Qashrul is a hulking skeletal colossus built from oversized bones and the rubble of ruined halls, haunting hilltops and forgotten quarries. It lumbers with the weight of masonry in its ribcage and…

neutral evilForged 29 Oct 2026
Quincemort Host
LargeUndeadCR 5

Quincemort Host

When a desecrated altar shudders open, five gaunt, blighted forms pour out as if fused at the hip, moving with the hunger of a single mind. The Quincemort Host smells of stale iron and a sweetness…

Chaotic EvilForged 29 Oct 2026
Vespril Wraith
SmallUndeadCR 3

Vespril Wraith

What appears at first as a sobbing child suddenly straightens into something wrong at the edges: a pale, translucent figure whose eyes are empty wells and whose small mouth opens to emit a sound…

Neutral EvilForged 28 Oct 2026
Tollriven Bell
LargeUndeadCR 10

Tollriven Bell

A towering bell formed of corroded metal and a web of stitched bone, the Tollriven Bell hangs suspended on a chain of knotted sinew and hollow vertebrae. When it tolls, the sound is not merely heard…

Neutral EvilForged 28 Oct 2026
Gutterwrit Knave
MediumUndeadCR 3

Gutterwrit Knave

Once a cutthroat of the docks, the Gutterwrit Knave lurches with a crooked gait and a grin of broken teeth, its sword arm swinging with the sluggish persistence of rot-driven hunger. Its movements…

Neutral EvilForged 25 Oct 2026
Noxenthar
MediumUndeadCR 5

Noxenthar

A Noxenthar is a flowing, tangible shadow given purpose: a living blot of cold darkness that clings to corners and slips into the smallest gaps in armor. It slides between light and shade as if the…

Neutral EvilForged 24 Oct 2026
Seventeenfold
LargeUndeadCR 3

Seventeenfold

The Seventeenfold is not a single mind but a single mass: seventeen levelled corpses fused by a slow, fetid will. It lurches as a single, stumbling unit, a rolling tangle of grasping hands and blank…

Neutral EvilForged 17 Oct 2026
Sepulkin
SmallUndeadCR 1/2

Sepulkin

A Sepulkin slips between tombstone shadows like a cold thought made flesh: slight, hunched, and wrapped in ragged burial linen that never quite settles. It prefers to wait among toppled markers and…

Neutral EvilForged 15 Oct 2026
Countess Morgrun
LargeUndeadCR 3

Countess Morgrun

A hulking hill-giant frame stitched into the stiff corsetry and powdered wig of a long-dead noblewoman, Countess Morgrun waddles with a grotesque dignity. Her stomach is a writhing, stitched sac…

Neutral EvilForged 15 Oct 2026
Marrow-Countess Veltren
LargeUndeadCR 3

Marrow-Countess Veltren

A bloated hill-giant body warped around the dessicated torso and jeweled corset of a long-dead noble, the Marrow-Countess Veltren exudes aristocratic malice and the scent of rot. Her cavernous belly…

Neutral EvilForged 15 Oct 2026
Garrulex
MediumUndeadCR 2

Garrulex

A headless figure in tattered courier's livery shambles down roads and alleys with a stiff arm forever outstretched, clutching a single water-stained letter. Its neck is a ragged stump that weeps…

Neutral EvilForged 14 Oct 2026
Gavrenchime
MediumUndeadCR 1

Gavrenchime

A sodden, bell-shaped corpse drifts from the surf, its mouth stretched into a permanent bell curve and a rusted iron clapper hung from its ribs. Wherever Gavrenchime slips through a village, a…

Neutral EvilForged 14 Oct 2026
Sootwain
SmallUndeadCR 1/2

Sootwain

A Sootwain is a sorrow-wreathed spirit bound to the walls and hearth of the home it died in. It moves with a whispering shuffle and a flurry of phantom linen and bristles, tidying everything from…

NeutralForged 14 Oct 2026
Malkurri
SmallUndeadCR 1/4

Malkurri

Malkurri appears as the bleached skeleton of a domestic cat wrapped in threadbare swathes of straw and grain husks, yet its empty eye-sockets burn with a cold, watchful intent. It pads silently…

NeutralForged 14 Oct 2026

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