Category:Zombie Lord
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So-called for its ability to control and create zombies, a Zombie Lord is a powerful undead creature that is marked by a foul aura of rot and decay. This aura can have any number of foul effects, anywhere from causing mere nausea to disease or even death (followed swiftly by reanimation as a normal zombie. In game mechanics, this effect is determined by a roll on a random table). Unlike normal zombies, zombie lords retain their intelligence and lack the normal sluggishness that impairs their weaker kin.[1][2]
As previously mentioned, zombie lords have almost supreme command over zombies[1], 
at least ones reanimated by "normal" means such as necromancy or negative energy. Nor does their control seem to preempt the control by more powerful sources such as darklords. For example, a zombie lord is not able to control yellow musk zombies or Strahd Zombies.[1][2] Zombie lords also have the power to cast animate dead and speak with dead.[1][2]
Canon sources say that zombie lords form from corpses targeted by raise dead spells gone wrong in Ravenloft.[1][2] Marcel Tarascon[3] is one such example. However, this does not account for the origins of canon zombie lords. Anton Misroi[4] and Coetlicrota the Undying[5] are two examples of how dark pacts, whether accidental or purposeful, can bring zombie lords to "life".
The Zombie Lord Template can be applied to humanoid or monstrous humanoid creatures.[2]
Zombie lords can be encountered in the following domains: Falkovnia[6],
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix I & II p. 67
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Denizens of Dread p. 231-233
- ↑ Night of the Walking Dead
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 98
- ↑ A Guide to Gothic Earth, p.109-110 Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 91
Pages in category "Zombie Lord"
The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
