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Welcome to Innistrad

On the plane of Innistrad, horrors stalk the shadows and scratch at doors in the night. Humanity is beset on all sides: vampires thirst for human blood, werewolves live for the thrill of the hunt, the restless spirits of the dead haunt the living, and no corpse is safe from reanimation at the hands of necromancer ghoulcallers or skaberen mad scientists. Only their grim determination, and their staunch faith in the protection of the angels—has allowed humans to survive in this nightmarish realm.

Locations

The mainland of Innistrad is split into four provinces called Gavony, Kessig, Stensia, and Nephalia, with much-unexplored wilderness lying beyond these provinces. Beyond the great seas, other continents are rumored to exist that harbor exotic species of lycanthropes.

Nearheath

Within a few miles south of Thraben's walls, there are several medium-sized towns. This area in the province of Gavony is called the Nearheath and is inhabited mainly by artisans and farmers. Nearheath is composed of several parishes.

Videns is a region of vineyards and rolling hills with small castles with walled estates. The River Kirch runs through this region. Wittal is the most thickly forested area of Gavony. Although small in size, the forest is dense and dark, with ancient pines trees that dwarf the deciduous forests in the neighboring parishes. Effalen is the rockiest area of Gavony, dominated by low shrubs and jagged outcrops. A few scattered villages are the only human habitations.

Moorland

The Moorland lies beyond the Neartheath, and has always been a more desolate region. There are few trees in the Moorland and the ground is covered with coarse grass, bracken, and violet heather. There are boulders and standing rocks, and the countryside seems to be covered in perpetual mist.

The area is rife with geists, many of them dangerous, and travelers are constantly at risk from them as well as other things that wander the countryside. The Drogskol is an army of spirits that are more protective. They were once a large militia that fell to a horde of the unhallowed, the zombies of Innistrad.

Trostad is a village of trappers on the border with Kessig province. Rider's Lock is a walled compound housing the Gavony Riders, cavalry of the Avacynian church. Westvale and its Abbey is a small village populated by skirsdag cultists.

Kessig

Kessig is a province in perpetual autumn, with rolling farmlands surrounded by dense, dark woods. The deep forests influence daily life heavily. The small human communities in agricultural villages, trappers, and hunters groups live at risk in these werewolf-infested woods, trying to make a living. Between the isolation and constant danger, most townsfolk here are wary of outsiders.

Nephalia

Nephalia is the coastal province of Innistrad. Dwellers interested in trade are attracted by a number of small-to-medium port towns, most situated at the mouth of a river that leads further inland. Nephalia's sloughs, sea mists, and mysteries cloak its commerce and crimes; it is populated mainly by humans, geists, and vampires of the Stromkirk bloodline, all of whom seek business, secrets, or solitude. The province's silver sand beaches, punctuated with rocky promontories and sea caves, afford the easiest access to its fog-shrouded ocean.

In Nephalia, skaaberen and ghoulcallers can be found in remote areas where they practice their dark arts without much interference from the suspicious citizens or Avacynian authorities. A group of mercenaries known as the Skiltfolk hire out their services to merchants and travelers who wish to cross Nephalia without using the Erdwal or who wish to go to other areas off the beaten path. Nephalia is also home to a cult of that worships the kraken horror Kralmar.

Stensia

The province of Stensia is Innistrad's most unexplored and the most legendary. Its valleys range from pasture fields to sinister swamps where dead conifer sink slowly. Its wooded lands, crossed by a dense fog, show chromatic colors, and its mountains disappear in the clouds. The sun never seems to shine in Stensia. It borders Kessig, and parts of it are within line of sight of Thraben and the Nephalia coastline.

The powers that govern Stensia, the vampiric bloodlines, reap the benefits of the isolation in the region. The chain of mountains of Geier Reach that dominates the province, separates the valleys from each other, making them easier to monitor and control.

Midland Range

The Midland Range divides the Inland valleys from those of the Outland. Only two passes connect the valleys across its precipitous slopes: Hosfaddel, a wide and well-trodden pass, and Needle's Eye, a narrow, treacherous, and deadly path. Between these two passes lies the Ashmouth, a demonic gateway where devils and demons pour through. It is a huge chasm deep enough to glow with magma from below. Devilthorn Lodge is a human watchtower guarding the Ashmouth, frequented by demon hunters and devout cathars.

The Somberwald is a winding, drooping wilderness adorning the hillsides. These woods are home to some of Innistrad's most noble and pristine creatures: bears, stags, and other things that have fled there over the centuries for safety and seclusion. Many of these creatures were once found in Kessig, but the spread of hunters, trappers, and werewolves there have driven them here, where they're safe in the shadow of the vampires.

The Farbogs are twin bogs flanking the middle ridge. Both were once groves of pines, but those trees now sink into the peat muck at odd angles, creating a tangle of dead trunks. The Heron's Grace Monastery is a noted pilgrimage destination between Hofsaddel and Getander Passes, founded on the ruins of Castle Falkenrath.

Innistrad Languages

Steve Prescott

Creature Type

Every creature in D&D, including every player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race in this section tells you what your creature type is.

Here's a list of the game's creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.

Age

The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure.

Height and Weight

Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.

Proficiencies

Some races and subraces grant proficiencies. These proficiencies are usually cultural, and your character might not have any connection with the culture in question or might havpe pursued different training. You can replace each of those proficiencies with a different one of your choice, following the restrictions on the Proficiency Swaps table.

Proficiency Swaps

Proficiency	Replacement Proficiency
Skill	Skill
Armor	Simple/Martial weapon or tool
Martial weapon	Simple/Martial weapon or tool
Simple weapon	Simple weapon or tool
Tool	Simple weapon or tool

Angel Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Celestial.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Angelic Magic. You know the light cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the moonbeam spell with this trait. Once you cast moonbeam with this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast it using any spell slots you have of 2nd level or higher.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Celestial Resistance. You have resistance to necrotic damage damage.

Flight. Because of your wings, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can't use this flying speed if you're wearing medium or heavy armor.

Dryad

Dryads are elementals, manifestations of nature. They appear as beautiful humanoids wrapped in vine and thorn. They make their home in the Somberwald, a winding, drooping pine forest in the Geier Reach mountains of Stensia province. They suffer no intruders into their domain, and ever since the arrival of the Eldrazi horror Emrakul, and her subsequent imprisonment in the moon, the dryads have become more aggressive, making communication between the villages spread in the forest difficult.

Geist Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are an Undead.

Size. You are Medium or Small (choose when you select this race).

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Deathless Nature. You have resistance to poison damage and immunity to disease, and you have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the poisoned condition on yourself. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

Ghostly Hover. You hover slightly off the ground. You can move across difficult terrain without expending extra movement if you are using your walking speed.

Incorporeal Avoidance. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the grappled or restrained condition on yourself.

Incorporeal Movement. You can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You take 5 (1d10) force damage if you end your turn inside a creature or object. This movement is blocked by 2 feet of rock, 2 inches of any metal other than lead, or a thin sheet of lead.

Sleepless Revitalization. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You remain conscious during a long rest, though you must still refrain from strenuous activity to gain the benefit of the rest.

Half-Devil

Devils are infernal perpetrators of malicious mischief. They make up the personal armies and entourages of the demons—those creatures’ selfish desires and urges made flesh. Cruel and gleefully sadistic, devils have no regard for the safety of themselves or others. They delight in destruction, mayhem, and pain.

The planeswalker Tibalt is a half-devil, the result of a potent and hateful spell. The spell fused his own essence with the devils at his side. This spell still exist, and could be used by others to achieve a similar infernal legacy.

Homonculus Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Construct.

Size. You are Small.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Constructed Nature. You have resistance to poison damage and immunity to disease, and you have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the paralyzed or poisoned condition on yourself. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

Nimble Escape. You can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of your turns.

Sentry's Rest. When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn't render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Specialized Design. You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice.

True Life. If the mending spell is cast on you, you can expend a Hit Die, roll it, and regain a number of hit points equal to the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

In addition, your creator designed you to benefit from common spells that preserve life but that normally don't affect Constructs: cure wounds, healing word, and spare the dying.

Human

Innistrad's population is mostly human, and are found throughout the four provinces. The people of Gavony are known for being well rounded. Kessigers are farmers, millers, weavers, and stonemasons, living close to the land and working hard for every meal. This makes them self-reliant, pragmatic, and plainspoken. Beneath an ever-present shroud of fog billowing in from the sea, the people of Nephalia maintain a semblance of normalcy, buying and selling goods from across Innistrad in their bustling markets, setting out to sea in tiny fishing boats, or tilling the soggy earth in waterlogged fields. And finally, countless generations of hardship and proximity to the vampire strongholds—leading to lost children and neighbors—have taught Stensians to guard their hearts. They are proud and fervent in their beliefs but seem brusque or even cold to the people of other provinces.

Scarecrow Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Construct.

Size. You are Medium or Small (choose when you select this race).

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. You are immune to the effects of aging and can't be aged magically.

Constructed Nature. You have resistance to poison damage and immunity to disease, and you have advantage on saving throws against being paralyzed or poisoned. You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.

False Appearance. If you are motionless at the start of combat, you have advantage on your initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn't observed you move or act, it must succeed on a Wisdom (Perception) check against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier to discern that you are animate.

Repair. If the mending spell is cast on you, you can spend a Hit Die, roll it, and regain a number of hit points equal to the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

Sleepless Revitalization. You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You remain conscious during a long rest, though you must still refrain from strenuous activity to gain the benefit of the rest.

Terrifying Glare. As an action, you can glare at one creature within 30 feet of you that can see you. That creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against a DC of 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Weakness to Fire. You have disadvantage on ability checks you make to avoid fire damage.

Skaab

Skaabs are zombies assembled from disparate body parts and animated through scientific means by Skaberen scientists, also called stitchers. Most skaabs are more or less humanlike, but creative stitchers have crafted winged skaabs similar to the drakes of other worlds, towering giant skaabs, and unrecognizable horrors.

Skaberen go through an elaborate process to gather body parts, bind them together, infuse the stitched body with vital fluid, and plant a vital force in its unliving flesh. Some skaberen even use necro-alchemy to fuel their laboratories.

Treefolk Traits

You have the following racial traits.

Creature Type. You are a Plant.

Size. You are Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Life Span. Over 1,000 years on average.

Natural Armor. Your bark-like skin provides you a base AC of 17 (your Dexterity modifier doesn't affect this number). You can't wear light, medium, or heavy armor.

Plant Camouflage. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make to hide in forest terrain.

Speech of Leaf. You can communicate in a limited manner with trees. They can understand the meaning of your words, and you can empathically understand their emotions.

Tree Stride. As an action, you can use 10 feet of movement to magically step into a tree within 5 feet of you and emerge from a second tree you can see within 60 feet of the first tree, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second tree. Both trees must be at least the same size as you. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Treefolk Magic. You know the druidcraft cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the detect poison and disease spell with this trait without requiring a material component. Starting at 5th level, you can cast the speak with plants spell with this trait. Once you cast detect poison and disease or speak with plants with this trait, you can't cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

Weakness to Fire. You have disadvantage on ability checks you make to avoid fire damage.

Vampire

Vampires on Innistrad form a civilization that stands alongside and in direct competition with humanity, presenting the greatest danger to human life on the plane. Like werewolves, vampires were originally human, and they view themselves as successors to the weak human race—even as they begrudgingly recognize that they require human blood to feed upon. They are the embodiment of self-indulgent desire, pursuing hedonistic cravings that humans suppress out of a sense of morality and propriety.

While similar to their counterparts on other planes, vampirism on Innistrad is a magical anointing of the blood with fiendish origin, not a curse or spreading disease. Innistrad vampires have distinctive eyes, appearing as pools of gold or silver surrounded by black. They have pale skin that is cool to the touch. Their canine teeth are slightly pronounced at all times, and they extend significantly when they bite to feed.

Werewolf

Driven by their passions, their supernatural hunger, and the cycle of the moon, werewolves shed their tenuous humanity to embrace the savage predator within. Lycanthropy—the condition that turns humans into werewolves—is a supernatural curse that causes the victim’s spiritual essence to become mingled with the wild essence of nature, symbolized by the wolf. A person afflicted with lycanthropy is forever in doubt of their own urges and instincts.

Werewolves in canid form are beings of unparalleled savagery and strength. Their howl is said to release the wolf’s spirit within, a harrowing sound that fogs the air and chills the night.

The exact means by which a person is subjected to the curse of lycanthropy is unknown and clouded by superstition. It’s likely that the curse can be imposed by a variety of different means—including intentional participation in a ritual meant to invoke the curse. Sometimes, it seems that a werewolf howlpack chooses a victim; certainly, most victims share a common experience of being called to join the pack.

Rite of Harmony

5th-Level Transmutation (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

This ancient coven rite encourages nature to temporarily spring to life. Until the spell ends, up to three Huge or smaller nonmagical plants of the DM's choice within range animate with limited sentience. Each plant gains the ability to move its limbs, roots, vines, creepers, and so forth, and it gains senses similar to a human's. Your DM chooses statistics appropriate for each plant, such as the statistics for the awakened shrub or the awakened tree.

The plants are allies to you and your companions until you or your companions do anything harmful to them. In combat, they share your initiative, but take their turns immediately after yours. You gain no special ability to influence them and they act as appropriate for awakened plants.

At Lower Levels. Other spellcasters that remain within 30 feet of you throughout the casting can join you in the casting of this spell. If one other spellcaster joins you, you can cast this spell using a 4th level spell slot. If two or more spellcasters join you, you can cast this spell using a 3rd level spell slot.

Memory Deluge

1st-Level Divination

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (a vial of tears)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

This spell allows you to re-experience any memory you experienced within the past month with full accuracy. Until the spell ends, the memory is replayed in your mind and you are blinded and deafened in regards to your own senses. At your DM's discretion, you might be able to notice details you did not notice before by using your action to make a Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check.

Siphon Insight

2nd-Level Enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

The next time you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, the attack deals an additional 2d6 psychic damage to the target, and you learn the surface thoughts of the creature—what is most on its mind in that moment. Questions verbally directed at the target creature naturally shape the course of its thoughts, so this spell is particularly effective as part of an interrogation.

Unnatural Moonrise

8th-Level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 10 minutes
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (a clay jar filled with 1 pint of Humanoid blood)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 8 hours

You seize control of time on your current plane of existence. You must be on a plane with a day/night cycle to cast this spell, and it must be daytime when you cast it.

While casting this spell, you alter the flow of time around your current plane's celestial bodies such that it becomes night at your current location. For example, you cause your plane's sun(s) to set and its moon(s) to rise. When the spell is complete, it remains night for the duration. When the spell ends, time is altered such that the celestial bodies return to their previous locations and orientations over the course of 1 minute.

This spell doesn't alter time for creatures, plants, or other objects. If you leave your current plane of existence, the spell ends early.

Spell Modifications

The following spells have changes to their spell descriptions when they are cast on the plane of Innistrad.

Ashmouth Devil

Ashmouth is a demonic gateway in Stensia province, from which both demons and devils emerge. Demons on Innistrad are the counterparts of angels, and are malevolent creatures of raw black mana. To extend their influence into the mortal world while keeping out of easy reach of the angels, demons make pacts with cultists and witches, bending those humans to their sinister will, and employ devils.

Devils are infernal perpetrators of malicious mischief, creatures of red mana. They delight in destruction, mayhem, and pain. Devils stand about three or four feet tall and have faces full of needlelike teeth. Most have ruddy or deep red skin, one or two back-sweeping horns, and long, whiplike tails.

As creatures of pure mana, demons and devils can never be truly destroyed. When a demon or devil dies, its essence is scattered for a time, but that essence eventually coalesces into a new form.

Virtually any stat block of a demon, devil, or yugoloth from the Monster Manual can be used for demons on Innistrad. The greatest demons, such as Griselbrand, Ormendahl, and Withengar, might use the stat blocks of the demon princes from Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse.

Cathar

Cathars are the soldiers of the Avacynian church, but “soldiers” is a broad term encompassing everything from crime-solving investigators to mounted paladins. Some cathar orders are so independent as to be virtually separate sects of the church, while others are tightly bound to the hierarchy of the faith.

The head of Avacynian church is the Lunarch, below him the four bishops of the provinces, and below them the priests of individual abbeys. Cathars are likely to take orders from these church leaders, calling upon their faith and defending parishes and townsfolk from the evils of the night.

Stat blocks for acolytes or priests from the Monster Manual could be used to represent the bishops and priests of the church.

Croaking Counterpart

No one is sure of the history or origin of the croaking counterpart. It appears as a small, frog-like creature that poorly mimics the appearance of nearby humanoids.

Dawnhart Witch

Before the coming of Avacyn and the angels, the old magic of the coven was a source of protection from the threats in the dark. After the archangel's death, the coven emerged once more, becoming the last hope of humanity against the encroaching darkness of the eternal night. The dawnhart coven are clad in elaborate skull headdresses, face paint, and autumnal robes.

The coven has an enclave near the Celestus in the Kessig Ulvenwald. Branches and hides fashioned into tents, decorated with crescents and spheres. Floating candles, candleguides, lend the place an eerie light, as do the strange scarecrows throughout. he witches of the Dawnhart Coven seem to derive their power from the god Ghrin-Danu, a primordial and forgotten god of nature.

Deathbonnet

The deathbonnet sprout is a quasi-sentient fungus found in the forests of Innistrad, such as the Somberwald in the Geier Reach mountains of Stensia province. It feeds off of death, so much that a sprout might quickly evolve into a hulking menace.

Dragons

Dragons are extremely rare on Innistrad, mostly confined the remotest parts of the Geier Reach mountains in Stensia. Most of these dragons are brutal fire-breathers called balefire dragons or Ashmouth dragons. They are best represented by any of the red dragon stat blocks from the Monster Manual, except they are Unaligned, can't speak any languages, and have an Intelligence and Charisma of 4.

Drakes are smaller than their dragon cousins, and rather than fire, they breathe lightning. They seem to have a connection with or affinity for lighting, as they are often seen chasing storms in flight or gathering near the lightning-fueled laboratories of skaberen alchemists. Drakes are best represented by the blue dragon wyrmling or young blue dragon stat blocks from the Monster Manual, except they are Unaligned, can't speak any languages, and have an Intelligence and Charisma of 4.

A few dragons are known to favor more monstrous prey, hunting vampires and flying into Kessig to feast on werewolves. Known as moonveil dragons, these extremely rare creatures have shimmering, transparent wings that gleam in the moonlight as they hunt. The sight of one is considered an inspiring good omen by those who fight the evils of the world.

Giant Ant

Among the many other horrors of Innistrad are giant insects, particularly enlarged ants believed to be the result of failed experiments by fleshcrafting wizards.

Hiveheart Shaman

The Dawnhart coven is one of many old and forgotten ways of witchcraft on Innistrad, such as the Bitterhearts, who descended from people whose village was swallowed by Ashmouth and thusly made pacts with demons.

The Hiveheart is another witch tradition, though a strange one. Its practitioners form strong bonds with lowly insects, in particular bees. Hiveheart witches often hide in plain sight, working in apiaries alongside farms and villages. In secret, they command swarms of bees to do their bidding, which often involves defending the woods from loggers or other monsters.

Homunculus

Stitchers and necro-alchemists of Innistrad often create and utilize homunculi, which are small subservient living constructs. They are used for menial tasks including collecting parts for skaab creation and maintaining libraries and laboratories. They often appear as blue-skinned cyclopean humanoids.

Insectile Aberration

A number of crazed wizards on Innistrad perform experiments that revolve around insects and metamorphosis, with the ultimate goal of achieving a kind of "perfect" state of being that merges man and insect.

Lightning Elemental

Storms are frequent on Innistrad, and many skaberen have taken to harnessing the energy of such storms to bring the final spark of life to their skaab creations. Some wizards take the harnessing of such storms to new levels by using its power to manifest powerful lightning elementals that guard their laboratories against intruders and rising threats.

Occultist

Where cathar inquisitors of the Church of Avacyn are the traditional investigators of Innistrad's supernatural threats and occurrences, occultists have stepped into their place as support for the church wanes. These new, young investigators don't draw their power from faith or angels, but instead take to dark and old forgotten magic; they aren't afraid to fight fire with fire when it comes to dark powers.

Revealing Eye

Practically nothing is known about the revealing eye, save that it is intelligent enough to set a trap. In towns throughout Innistrad, some bulletin boards will find a posting for a private show, some must-see event of wonder. Hapless guests who visit the listed address will find a horror behind the curtains, and are unlikely to be seen again.

Shadow Kin

Shadow kin are mysterious shapeshifters found throughout Innistrad's history. Stories of doppelgangers, evil twins, and living reflections all trace their origins back to some form of shadow kin.

Sludge Monster

A sludge monster is a mass of sentient ooze that crawls across nephalia, leaving sludge in its wake. This sludge is not only corrosive, but capable of completely covering a creature and controlling its movements, turning it into an agent for the monster.

Slug Horror

Slug horrors are enormous, grotesque slugs empowered by demonic blood. This unholy influence gives slug horrors their giant size, supernatural strength, and ability to spawn more slugs. A Nephalian cult known as the Temple of Toxrill created one such a slug horror, which now roams and stalks the Mokrut swamp, followed by endless swarms of slugs.

Werewolf Packleader

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Zombie

Ghoulcallers are necromancers—mages who call forth the dead from grafyards. These risen dead are called ghouls, or the unhallowed. The ghoulcaller fills the fragile mind of his or her creation with a single driving purpose, which the ghoul carries out to the best of its ability using whatever skills it has. Unhallowed ghouls might be represented with the zombie, ghoul, ghast, or even mummy stat block from the Monster Manual. The following section offers a selection of other options for different kinds of ghouls.

Tomb Tyrant

Most zombies, both ghouls and skaabs, aren't truly intelligent. They are simply tools that serve their skaberen and ghoulcaller masters. However, on rare occasions, a zombie will remember much of its former life and retain its intelligence. To prevent such an occurrence, wizards have developed a magic item known as a pithing needle to remove such memories from their creations. However, when a pithing needle is not employed, the result is an intelligent zombie that often leads its undead brothers against their former masters.

Zombie Bear

Practically any living thing on Innistrad can become a ghoulish undead. The grizzlies of the Somberwald forest are no exception, and unlucky hunters might find themselves hunted by their recently deceased quarry.