FrostBound

Frostbound

Rank:

Formidable (1 progress per harm; inflicts 3 harm)

Features:

• Mummified, desiccated flesh
• Frozen blue eyes
• A sorrowful, hollow scream

Drives:

• Absorb the warmth of the living

Tactics:

• Sense heat
• Life-draining grasp

Some who fall prey to the long winters or the wild storms of the northern regions are given a horrible new life as the frostbound. These animated corpses are cursed to forever seek out the warmth their death took from them.

Quest Starter: A group of frostbound lurk along a mountain trail. This path is the only safe route to the lowlands from a mining village.

Your Truth

Can creatures other than Ironlanders become frostbound? If so, undeath gives them uncanny strength. Make them one rank higher than their living form.