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[366 Days of Monsters] Day 164/366 - Draugr

Added 2020-08-03 15:35:16 +0000 UTC

Cold as the icy highlands that they haunt, draugr are the reanimated corpses of despicably evil Rasgax Highlanders who were improperly buried. A draugr appears much as it did in life, except that its skin turns even darker and its head and beard hair turns stark white. Their eyes burn blue.

Undead Lords. Often, the presence of a powerful draugr draws the attention of mindless undead in the region its haunts. As such, draugr frequently lead warbands—and sometimes entire armies—of the undead. These undead possess the same chaotic bent as the draugr, content to destroy all life and civilization that they encounter.

Thorolf the Insatiable. The most famous draugr ever to rise from the tundra of the Rasgax Highlands was the warlord Thorolf the Insatiable. Mounted on the back of a great ice worm named Dødlenge. Thorolf tore through Rasgax Consortium, killing thousands. The Rasgax hero Runa Tokidottir hunted Thorfolk, slew him in direct combat, then wrestled the warlord into an earthen grave. Thorolf has not returned since.

Undead Nature. The draugr does not require air, food, drink, or sleep.