Thaid, The Deathlord

Priest/Healing Powers: Exorcism 60%, turn dead 80%, remove curse 31%, remove deific curse 21%, resurrection 33%, curse 41%, and healing touch (2D6).

Magic Powers: All wizard and Necromancer spells, also knows all symbols, wards, curses and circles. Note: Opponents must roll a 16 or higher to save vs magic.

Psionic Powers: 2,950 I.S.P., with all abilities.

Favorite Weapons: Thaid has four weapons, the Wand of Orcus, Orcusword, The Scythe of Orcus and Skrellig

Skrellig: Thaid's rune pitchfork, which is constructed from the skeleton of a demon and is considered a greatest rune weapon. It has an IQ of 17, is +5 to Strike and Damage does 6D6 Damage and has the full range of rune abilities plus the following special powers.

• Soul Drinker: The drinking of souls is the actual absorption and imprisonment of one's life essence. The victim's blood must be drawn by this weapon before it can devour the life essence. When the soul is devoured the Demon's skull of the pitchfork opens it's mouth and lets out a blood curdling scream. A victim devoured by this rune weapon is forever lost. Skrellig is limited to a maximum of 1D6 souls per day. Victims of a soul drinking attack get to save vs magic, but must roll a 14 or higher. A successful save means the victim's essence is saved but suffers double damage
• Necromantic Magic: Able to cast the following Four Necromancy spells per once per day.
  1. Animate Dead Animals: This spell creates undead skeletons and zombies from the bones and bodies of dead animals, specifically vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals). The animated remains obey simple verbal commands given by the caster, regardless of the language employed. Only naturally occurring animals of no higher than semi-intelligence can be animated with this particular spell (lizards, cats, frogs, weasels, tigers, and so on), including minimals and non-magical, giant-sized animals. These undead remain animated until they are destroyed in combat or turned; the animating magic cannot be dispelled. The number of undead that can be animated is 6D6
  2. Corpse Link: With this spell, a sensory link is established between the owner of the Weapon and a corpse or freshly animated zombie of a human, demihuman, or humanoid within a 60 foot range. This link allows the caster to gather sensory information from the vicinity of the cadaver or undead being.
     1. Sight: The caster can see what the corpse or undead creature sees as if looking through one of the creature's eyes.
     2. Sound: The wizard can now hear through one ear, exactly as if standing at the corpse's current location (if a wizard/thief, the caster can use his or her hear noise ability too).
     3. Smell: With one nostril, the wizard can now smell things exactly as if standing at the corpse's current location. The spell conveniently masks the putrefying stench of the cadaver (if any) so that subtle variations of aroma (like the scent of a rose) can easily be detected.
     4. Taste: The caster can taste any substance which is introduced into the corpse's mouth. The substance (which may be solid or liquid) tastes exactly as if the wizard had placed it on one side of his or her own tongue. This can be especially useful when checking for poison in food or identifying unknown potions. Thankfully, the taste of the corpse's own rotting flesh can be masked out by the spell.
     5. Touch: The caster gains the ability to sense the textural and environmental conditions, with a single hand, as if standing at the corpse's location. The wizard can gauge the surface texture and temperature of any object or substance which is placed in contact with the corresponding hand of the corpse.
     The caster collects all the sensory information through a single organ (eye, ear, nostril, half of the tongue, or hand) belonging to the corpse or undead recipient. This organ need not be attached to the rest of the cadaver for the spell to function properly. While the spell is in effect, the wizard can still see/hear/smell/taste/touch normally through other (unlinked) organs. For example, a necromancer harvests the left eye from a fresh cadaver (with a successful Anatomy ability check) and places it on a high ledge, with a strategic view of a front door. If the spell is now cast, the wizard's left eye would be able to see through the left eye of the corpse and spy on any visitors, while his or her right eye remains normal.
     Furthermore, if the target of the spell is a zombie, the magic enables the caster to issue simple commands to the undead creature via this link. The commands can be no longer than four words and can deal only with the creature's movement (turn left, walk forward two steps, and so on) If either the caster or the undead creature moves beyond the range of the spell, the effects arc negated. Corpse link does not impart any animation to dead tissue; if cast on a regular cadaver, it remains stationary for the duration of the spell.
  3. Brainkill: This spell, which operates much like a forget spell, can permanently burn from the memory of any one creature all knowledge of either a specific place or person or a time period of up to one year (the spellcaster may choose the desired result). The spell works on any intelligent creature by destroying a portion of its brain, but a victim is entitled to a saving throw vs. death magic to resist the effects of the spell. If successful, the creature suffers only a painful headache, which dissipates in 1-4 hours but is otherwise harmless. If failed, the victim suffers 1-6 points of damage from an excruciating headache, leaving him or her with selected gaps in his memory.
     Brainkill can affect only the victim's memory and ability to recall factual information. For example, a person thus affected might be completely unable to remember details of a place, the name, appearance, or any traits of a person, or might have a one-year blank in his or her memory. The spell has no effect on a persons learned abilities or skills. For instance, suppose an individual gained a swimming proficiency six months before coming under the influence of this spell. While the victim will no longer recall the swimming lessons, he or she still retains the ability, though it might not become evident until the victim jumps into a large body of water. Aside from relearning it as best as one can, the lost knowledge and memories can never be regained except by a wish.
  4. Bone Blight: This nasty curse slowly erodes the healthy bone of any chosen creature within a range of 60 feet, who is entitled to a saving throw vs. spells. If failed, all bone in the creature slowly begins to dissolve, eventually reducing it to a quivering mound of formless flesh. Except for experiencing a strange "tingling sensation" at the time of casting, the victim is not immediately aware of the spell's effect (making it even more insidious). In the short term (starting at the moment of casting up to the first full day), the bones of the victim become embrittled, greatly increasing his or her susceptibility to crushing attacks or falling damage. At the onset, the subject of this spell sustains double normal damage from such attacks; by the end of the first day, the victim's current hit points are reduced by 20%. In the medium term (lasting ld6+l days from the time of the casting), a victim is subject to frequent, painful fractures. All attacks by piercing and slashing weapons inflict double normal damage, while crushing attacks inflict quadruple damage. By the end of this period, the creature's hit points are reduced by 60%. In the terminal stage of this spell, a victim's bones finally dissolve, collapsing the subject's spine and skull, bringing a slow and painful death.
     While under the effects of this spell, the victim's body is unable to undergo normal healing processes. Magical healing (spells or potions) slows the onset of the terminal stage, but it cannot halt the bone loss process completely. Every 10 hp of magical healing effectively prolongs the victim's life in the intermediate stage of the affliction for one full day. The slow dissolution of bone can only be halted by a successful dispel magic or by remove curse, cure disease, heal, or restoration spell. Once the spell has been broken, lost hit points can be healed by normal or magical means. This spell only works on living creatures and have no effect if cast on undead.

     Wand of Orcus: The wand of Orcus is a 3 foot long black obsidian and iron scepter topped with the skull of a Human Paladin, with the smooth haft studded with blood rubies. It is used as a Heavy Mace and is an artifact of malefic might. The wand communicates silently with its owner, in Abyssal, using brutal and gory imagery to highlight its blood-soaked ends. When wielded in melee the wand functioned as a +6 unholy chaotic heavy mace. If anyone but it's owner tries to use the wand, there is a 75% chance he or she will die immediately. The owner of the Wand of Orcus can call upon each of the following powers once per day:

     Primary Power:

     • Touch of Death – Save v. Magic
     1. Minor Benign Powers:
        • Animate Dead, by touch – 1 Figure, 7 times/week
        • Zombie Animation – 1 time/day
        • Animate object upon command - 1 time/day.
        • Detect Invisibility (when held and ordered)
        • Detect Magic – 3 times/day
        • Protection of +2 when held or worn.
        • Fly when held and ordered - 3 times/day.

        Major Benign Powers:

        • Dispel Magic (upon command) – 2 times/day
        • Polymorph Self – 7 times/week
        • Regenerate 2 h.p./turn (but not if killed).
        • Resurrection - 7 times/week.
        • Cause Disease by touch

        Minor Malevolent Effects:

        • Holy water within 10’ becomes polluted

     Orcusword: +6 Unholy vorpal Greatsword

     Scythe of Orcus: Made entirely out of yellowed bone, the Scythe of Orcus has the strength and hardness of adamantine. It can sever the heads of opponents like a vorpal sword. Anything slain by the Scythe of Orcus (but not beheaded) rises again as a free-willed undead creature, and the wielder of the Scythe can magically summon these undead creatures. The Scythe is intelligent and Diabolic in alignment, and can communicate with its wielder by empathy. If the wielder works to promote the will of Orcus, the Scythe is happy, but if not then the Scythe tried to gain control and attack its wielder, returning to Orcus with a blast of hot sulfurous wind if it kills its wielder.

  Armour:

  • Full Plate Armour Weightless and Noiseless AR: 18 SDC: 700

  Alliances & Allies: He has a very amiable relationship with the Demon Lords, although one would be hard put to call them allies, and he gets along with most of the evil gods. He has allied himself in the past with Set and Anubis and they regularly exchange greetings through deific messengers.

  Enemies: All the Gods of Light, Kiaransalee(Though he is pretending to be her lover)

  Vulnerabilities:

  1. Only silver, Holy Weapons, or magical attacks. He is unaffected by most of the other things that hurt other vampires.
  2. Need for Blood. Although he has a limitless supply (after all, he has hundreds of thousands of devoted followers), this could still be a problem if he were to spend any time away from his realm. He is accustomed to drinking blood every 12 hours.
  3. Arrogance. He tends to see everyone, even other gods, as lesser beings. For this reason he tends to underestimate threats.

Minions: None per say but has influence over all undead.