#undead mage

[geist19]

My mostly undead family, Stace stays family despite still being alive.

[itsmissing]

lich of collapse

[disarmonia]

Last year's fan art of Laudna from Critical Role campaign 3.🖤

[lizzybeeee]

Am I the only one who thinks it's fucked up that the Mortalitasi are parading about King Markus's corpse...as opposed to letting the next in line rule??

He's alive in DAI - old, but very much flesh and blood - and we know this because the venatori use blood magic on him to get him under their control. So, what is he in DATV then? Are they implying that he's a lich? That he still has his mind? That they've got a spirit in there?

What do they gain from this? Cassandra's, what, 64th in line for the throne? So there's a bunch of potential heirs just hanging about -> potential heirs who want the crown because we know that Cassandra's parents were executed for trying to overthrow him.

Cassandra may not be fond of her family, but I can't imagine her letting this slide. This is the type of shit that gets an Exalted March called down on you! Especially if she's divine?! Nevarran's can be 'death-focused'* yes, but they let the living rule and not the dead.

It's their belief that when their soul passes through the Fade it results in a spirit being displaced - so they have the Mortalitasi find the spirit a new home in the Necropolis. That is their job - they maintain the Necropolis and, according to DATV, sometimes deal with awry magic.

The potential relation to a Divine or the Head of the Seekers, the King of Nevarra, is having his corpse puppeted about by a mage...and no one seems to care?!

Is this not super fucked up to anyone else?!!!

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Edit - I put this down in the tags but I think it's important to point out: In all the previous games up to this point not once has a mage, manipulating a corpse like this, ever been portrayed as quirky or funny. This is not the norm of what the Mortalitasi are supposed to do - they honour the dead they do not puppet them.

Thedas is a world very strongly intertwined with faith, especially the Chantry. It is Nevarra's attitudes towards death and their burial practices that distinguishes it from other Andrastian nations - they still have the Chantry, the Templars, and the Circle of Magi just as the rest of Southern Thedas has.

It's impossible to imagine any Divine (Leliana, Cassandra, or Vivienne) hearing of this occurring and not taking action against this. It's extremely strange that Emmrich bemoans that half the nobility know this has occurred when this action should be seen as nothing short of an abomination to the faithful - including Emmrich.

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

ZAIRA OF THE DAWN

by Thiago Lehmann

[carrinth]

HEAR ME OUT.

WHAT IF JUSTICE. BUT UNDEAD GRIFFON.

Something something AU where Justice ends up possessing corpse of dead griffon prior to DA2. Bonus sketches:

Please suggest <stupid bird pun name>~!

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

Undead Mage by  Alexander Trufanov

[dailyadventureprompts]

Rival: Jacob Haft, the Dead Hand

The corpse swaggers, yes, swaggers down the manor's grand steps, before ripping free one of the railing posts and levelling it at you like a duellist's blade. " Shame it is, our meeting like this" He rasps, "My Story's long over, and yours ain't half started. Still, an end's and end isn't it? Lets get you all sorted out and punctuated and I can be about my work."

No one hates to see talent go to waste more than a necromancer, so before the mercenary was even cold in his grave Jacob Haft was set upon by resurrectionists and bound for the ghoulcaller's slab.

In life Half was an accomplished sellsword with a talent for getting out of tough scrapes and always getting the job done, now he's a sleepless revanant possessing inhuman strength doing busywork for an up and coming coprsebotherer. While he has no particular beef with the party, he's bound by the magic that animates him to put his all into executing whatever dark bidding is assigned to him, which means pitting his near invulnerable body and decades of well honed skill against the heroes and whatever mission they happen to be on at the moment.

Adventure Hooks:

Seeking to end a dark curse creeping over the land the party is tasked with delving a decrepit manor that might have once been the site of dark rituals, only to come face to face with the Dead Hand. Jacob's master has heard that a dark artifact or tome of forbidden lore they desire was obtained by the manor's previous occupant, and has sent his pet revenant to retrieve it. Jacob would love if he could talk the party through their differences, maybe share a drink and a smoke and a dirty joke or two before letting him leave with his prize. If not, well, he'll have to knock them out and bring the whole structure down on top of them to get his lead.

While he was always an expert at using improvised weapons, Jacob staked his life on his lucky wrist-dagger Toodle-oo, both of which were taken from him (along with his arm) by the final vicious bite of a beast he'd taken a bounty to defeat. Should the party retrace the merc's legend and be able to find the knife, they might just be in possession of the one weapon which could put him down for good. Jacob might even appreciate such an end, seeing that the knife was more a part of him than his arm ever was.

Necromancers are not known for being content with the power they have, so each subsequent time they encounter the Dead Hand they'll find him grafted with a new undead extremity: The Paralyzing claw of a ghoul, the rotting touch of a mummy, the life-sapping grasp of a wraith. Each limb will act on its own in combat, and If they're clever they'll think to sever it to deny their foe the expanded arsenal.

[wearemercs]

Battle Maids by zero808w

[methulusyllasluth]

[st-just]

Lich by Anastasia Balakchina

[geist19]

still working on drawing new comics, so here's an old one to

A day off means a day off, no exceptions, even for heroics!

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[itsmissing]

design comm for a mage made out of blood slime

[tomixslefttoe]

Warlic, about Valen, the Hero, and Jaania: Heroes only come in three kinds: dead, damaged, or dubious.

[happyia]

🧟Funtober Day 14: Undead💀

Hey, what are you doing in the cursed forest? The guardian is pretty chill but you will get cursed if you continue trespassing.

Experimenting with lineless style today because I am having a migraine and the lines aren't lining.

here’s the link to the challenge:

https://www.tumblr.com/happyia/763084773897977856/this-year-im-doing-my-own-october-art-challenge?source=share

[misanthropic-wolf666]

Skeletal mage