View source for Publication:Dread Codex/Monsters/Undead Stalker

=== In Your Campaign ===

The result of heavy magical experimentation on owlbears, undead stalkers were first created to attack a necromancer's fortress. The king who commissioned the monster wanted the necromancer and his undead legions wiped out after their fourth attack against his kingdom. Originally good-aligned, the first taste of negative energy somehow warped the stalkers' arcane matrices and turned them into the soul-sucking bloodthirsty beasts they are today.

Several adventure ideas present themselves where the undead stalker is concerned. In an enormous mortuary where the spirits of the ancient dead can be called upon to advise the living, both resident spirits and the mortuary's caretakers have been disappearing. The caretakers lock themselves, along with the PCs, inside, and ask the party to determine who is causing the disappearances, and why. One of the caretakers has called an undead stalker into the mortuary in order to hide his summoning of spirits for personal gain, and is doing his best to hide evidence from the PCs.

A grieving widow whose husband was slain by an undead stalker is the subject of another adventure idea. She asks the PCs to free her husband's soul so it might find peace. But the undead stalker is the sole guardian of an ancient pyramid where undead are feared to dwell, and the only force preventing the undead from escaping. After some investigation, the only known way to extract a soul from inside an undead stalker is with a spell hidden inside the pyramid, so the PCs must sneak past the stalker, explore the pyramid, and then find the stalker again.</onlyinclude>


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Alignment	Always chaotic evil +
Challenge Rating	7 +
Environment	Any +
Level Adjustment	— +
Size	Large +
Title	Undead Stalker +
Type	Aberration +