Burgundy Bestiary: Snow Goons

Having invaded from the ice-swept, boreal reaches, the dreaded Snow Goons threaten all living species. Bringing unimaginable cold and never-ending snowball battles in their wake, their arrival threatens to bring civilization to a halt. Their origin as of yet is a mystery, yet they command mastery over the soulless, corporeal undead. A connection with the metaphysical incarnation of that skeletal wraith, Death, has not been ruled out by the theologians of the Great Stained-Glass Domed Temple.

Cold Life: The Snow Goons are a mystery. Auguries and slugreadings (where philosophers seek to glean truth by consuming gastropods in the hopes of connecting with the Great Cosmic Flail Snail) have thus far only yielded the fact that the Snow Goons comprise "a different kind of life".
The Walking Dead: For reasons similarly unknown, Snow Goons seem to have mastery over the most primitive forms of undead (skeletons and zombies), often using these as shock troops while raining snowy death from afar. Those slain in the vincinity of the Snow Goons soon rise as zombies themselves.
Snowy Warriors: A party (1d4+2) of Snow Goons, once stripped of their undead entourage, is no cakewalk. They are perfectly capable of defending themselves. They are resistant to attacks made with mundane weapons but, as creatures of the arcane, are susceptible to magic. Therein lies mankind's chance, but their possible demise as well, as using magic stirs the Arcane even more, increasing the strength of unnatural forces.


SNOW GOON
Medium elemental, chaotic neutral
AC: 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 53 (7d8+21)
Speed: 25 ft. (icewalk)

Str 14 (+2), Dex 12 (+1), Con 17 (+3), Int 16 (+3), Wis 14 (+2), Cha 11 (+0)

Skills: Stealth +4
Saves: Constitution +6, Charisma +3
Senses: Darkvision 120 ft.
Languages: Auran, understands Common

Damage Resistances: fire, lightning
Damage Vulnerabilities: magic and attacks with magical weapons
Damage Immunities: cold, poison, bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical weapons
Condition Immunities: poisoned

Cold Service. A humanoid slain by the Snow Goon rises as a zombie under the Snow Goon's control as soon as the sun sets (immediately if it is night).

ACTIONS

Cold Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d8+6) cold damage.
Snowball. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range 40/80 ft., one target. Hit: 26 (4d8+8) cold damage.

Burgundy Bestiary: Purple Goblin

In the wet, hot expanse of the Out-of-Place Jungle, in the Undulating Burgundy Marches of the Westerrealm, a vicious menace stalks the land. Of nasty and mischievous demeanor, these Purple Goblins are a threat to all orderly and weal-loving types in the jungle. Furthermore, they seem to propagate in a remarkable manner: any small- or medium-sized humanoid bitten by a purple goblin turns into one.

Gnap! The first sign a gang (1d4+6) of purple goblins is near is the distinctive "Gnap!"-sound they make. Seeming frivolous at first, the gnapping increases as the purple goblins spy their prey, swelling to a cacaphony of shrill shrieks.
Destructive Menaces: Purple goblins are even more destructive than their greenskinned cousins. They have literally no regard for anything else than spreading havoc and mischief. A gang of purple goblins can overrun a town in no-time, infecting the inhabitants with their condition spreading like wildfire.
Bzzt!-disease: The source of the purple goblin-condition has been traced by arcane and astral sagelike types to be the "Bzzt!-fly", an as yet undiscovered species of tropical insect. The disease, once it gets hold of a humanoid of up to normal human size, rapidly transforms the subject into a purple goblin (or hobgoblin, for larger varieties). After failing the first saving throw, symptoms will start the following round, leaving the target prone and incapacitated on the ground. A gruelling transformation will begin, lasting 1d6 rounds after which the target stands up as a purple goblin, emitting a loud "Gnap!". A cure for the disease has not yet been determined, although it is expected the usual magical means of removing these kinds of conditions would work.


PURPLE GOBLIN
Small humanoid (goblinoid), neutral evil
AC: 13 (natural armor)
Hit Points: 13 (4d6)
Speed: 35 ft.

Str 8 (-1), Dex 16 (+3), Con 10 (+0), Int 8 (-1), Wis 11 (+0), Cha 8 (-1)

Skills: Acrobatics +7
Senses: Darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages: Gnap!
Challenge: 1/4 (50 XP)

Pounce Attack: The purple goblin can jump attack as a bonus action by making an opposed Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. Success grants the purple goblin advantage on its next bite attack.

ACTIONS
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4+3) piercing damage and the target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be infected by the Bzzt!-disease.

Necro Elves

Reskinned Drow. Because who needs another Drizzt?

All sages and Wizards and all high-up Priests in the Ecclesiarchy know that the Elves came from the stars. In sleek silver ships they fled the destruction of their Homeworld, which was destroyed by the dark cosmic entity called the Voidstar.

A closely guarded secret by the Elves is that the Voidstar - which in their language is called Tharizdun - was actually created by the Elven forebears themselves. Their misuse of arcane magic backfired and mutated the sun of their homeworld into an eldritch abomination, sucking up billions of Elven souls.

As the Elves created their magical empire in what are now the Western Kingdoms, their leaders swore off the old ways of their Homeworld that gave rise to Tharizdun and agreed to work in harmony with the magical energies of Arcana. A few of them, appalled at the casting aside of millennia of Eldar tradition, grew resentful and searched for ways to bring back the souls of the brilliant artists, mages, architects and leaders of their Homeworld.

Turning to magic forbidden by the Eldar leaders, these Elves found ways of reincarnating the souls devoured by Tharizdun in new bodies, birthed on Arcana. However, the bodies in which these souls reincarnated were markedly different from their parents or their past lives. They became jet black, a permanent reminder of the time spent by their soul in oblivion.

At first, these dark children were frowned upon but allowed to grow up in Eldar lands. As their numbers increased however, tensions brewed until it blossomed into a full civil war between the High Elves and the Dark Elves.

The day was won by the High Elves.  Enclaves of Dark Elves survive, developing a culture of their own. A culture devoted to death, art, architecture and poetry.

Unknown to almost everyone, the Dark Elven birthing process - drawing souls away from the Voidstar - is drawing that very abomination closer to Arcana every day.

The (Walking) Red Dead

The Red Death originating out of Aurora quickly spread to the surrounding, prosperous cities of the south. Those infected with the plague who managed to travel from Aurora to its neighboring settlements spread the infection. In a matter of months, the southlands as well as the heartlands of the Empire of Draconis were overrun with walking dead.

When infected, a victim of the Scarlet Plague suffers from a sickening fever. Within hours, the victim dies of the infection. A victim's skin turns unnaturally red (hence the name of the disease). A short time later, which can be minutes or hours, the deceased victim reopens its eyes, now shining with a crimson light, to spread the infection further.

RED DEAD
Medium humanoid (undead), unaligned

Armor Class 8
Hit Points 9 (2d8)
Speed 20 ft.

STR     DEX     CON     INT  WIS  CHA
11 (+0) 6 (-2)    10 (+0)  7 (-2) 8 (-1) 6 (-2)

Damage Immunities necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive perception 9
Languages understands the languages it spoke in life but can't speak
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)

Strength in Numbers. The Red Dead has advantage on attack rolls when adjacent to another Red Dead.

ACTIONS
Grapple. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, contested by the targets Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. Target is grappled if attack succeeds. The target can escape the grapple on its turn by succeeding another contested check.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d6) piercing damage. The target contracts the Red Death. Every hour, the target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution save or suffer one level of exhaustion. The Red Death can only be cured by magical means such as Lesser Restoration or Remove Curse. A victim dying of the Red Death rises 1d4 hours later as a Red Dead.

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