Undead

Order of Voln
Documentation
Voln, the Great Spirit
The History of the Order of Voln
Mechanics
Favor			Undead
Scripts
Voln armor
Symbols
1.	Recognition		2.	Blessing
3.	Thought		4.	Diminishment
5.	Courage		6.	Protection
7.	Submission		8.	Kai's Strike
9.	Holiness		10.	Recall
11.	Sleep		12.	Transcendence
13.	Mana		14.	Sight
15.	Retribution		16.	Supremacy
17.	Restoration		18.	Need
19.	Renewal		20.	Disruption
21.	Kai's Smite		22.	Turning
23.	Preservation		24.	Dreams
25.	Return		26.	Seeking

The Undead are creatures that are brought to a semblance of life after their death, in a manner that is different from resurrection in that their life is not fully restored. This is usually accomplished by binding a cursed soul to some aspect of the material world, often (but not always) their own corpse. The Undead can range from zombies roltons to phantoms to much worse. They can manifest in corporeal and non-corporeal entities.

Undead are immune to physical damage from unblessed weapons, although most direct damage spells harm them normally. Many are also immune to cold-based attacks unless they take a form aligned with fire. They are immune or highly resistant to many forms of mind-affecting magic. The Cleric spell Smite/Bane (302) may be more or less effective depending on the cleric's deity.

Corporeal and Non-Corporeal Undead

The corporeal undead generally take damage normally from blessed weapons.

While still vulnerable to attacks by blessed weaponry, the non-corporeal undead (e.g. spirits, phantoms) are a little harder to handle. Having no body, they use a special non-corporeal critical table which makes them immune to instant death or debilitating wounds. Many are also immune or highly resistant to stuns and knockdowns. Non-corporeal beings can be forced into a corporeal form by using the sorcerer spell Phase (704). The Order of Voln has an unarmed combat ability called Kai's Smite that also draws them into corporeal form temporarily, and they can be weakened by Symbol of Disruption.

Sheer Fear

Main article: Sheer fear

Player characters may be incapacitated by sheer fear in the presence of undead creatures with substantially higher level than their own.

Undead Creatures

These are some of the many undead creatures in Gemstone IV. Duplicated level 1-15 or generic undead areas common in starter locations are excluded from the list as they aren't unique.

Until recently, no base level undead creatures existed between the levels of 64 and 75. This "Undead Gap" existed for over 20 years, and ended with the July 2016 release of the Red Forest and its level 68 warped tree spirits and was further corrected in August 2020 with Den of Rot that added level 70 seething pestilent visions and level 72 magna vereri.

Undead will expand beyond Scatter undead with the level 110 lich with the release of The Hinterwilds later in 2021/2022.

Realm	Hunting areas	Creatures	Level Range
Reim		Four portal zones consisting of undead in 4 level ranges and accessible for 2 realtime hours per entry: 1-30 31-60 61-90 91-100
Open Sea Adventures		Enemy ships can spawn as ghost ships, providing like level creatures of those on board the ship to combat.
Wehnimer's Landing	Temple of Love	Wolfshade Nedum vereri	15 - 18
Icemule	Temple of Hope: Abbey	Nedum vereri Arch wight	18 - 20
Solhaven	Wooded Plains	Wood wight Rotting woodsman	20 - 23
Wehnimer's Landing	Potter's Field	Zombie Tree spirit	23 - 26
Ta'Vaalor	Lunule Weald	Niirsha Crazed zombie Sacristan spirit Tree spirit Frenzied monk	23 - 27
Icemule	Abandoned Farm	Zombie Tree spirit Elder tree spirit Rotting farmhand Spectral woodsman	23 - 35
Zul Logoth	Troll Burial Grounds	Rock troll zombie Troll wraith	34 - 35
Ta'Illistim	Wraithenmist	Darken (28) Ghostly mara (32) Spectral lord (36)	28 - 36
River's Rest	Miasmal Forest	Skeletal soldier (34) Spectral black warhorse (35) Lesser moor wight (37) Greater moor wight (39) Bog wraith (41)	34 - 41
Solhaven	Castle Varunar	Spectral monk (25) Rotting corpse (32) Skeletal warhorse (37) Skeletal lord (41) Phantasma (42)	25 - 42
Ta'Illistim	Black Moor	Barghest Luminous spectre Spectral black warhorse Greater moor wight Vourkha Baesrukha Greater fetid corpse	35 - 42
Wehnimer's Landing	Shadow Valley	Ghostly pooka Shadow mare Shadow steed Spectral miner Night mare	33 - 43
Wehnimer's Landing	The Broken Lands	Lesser vruul Nightmare steed Greater vruul	45 - 75
Ta'Vaalor	Fethayl Bog	Bog wight Bog spectre Warrior shade	44 - 48
River's Rest	Marsh Keep	Gaunt spectral servant Rotting chimera Necrotic snake Flesh golem	44 - 50
Icemule	Frozen Bramble	Writhing icy bush Blackened decaying tumbleweed Writhing frost-glazed vine Dark frosty plant Large thorned shrub Shriveled icy creeper	36 - 50
Icemule	Pinefar	Frozen corpse Ice wraith Seeker	42 - 52
Wehnimer's Landing	Darkstone Castle	Banshee Nightmare steed	50 - 55
Solhaven	Bonespear Tower	Waern Dybbuk Eidolon	49 - 55
River's Rest	The Citadel	Ethereal mage apprentice Decaying Citadel guardsman Rotting Citadel arbalester Putrified Citadel herald Phantasmal bestial swordsman	54 - 62
Teras Isle	Temple of Luukos	Wind wraith Soul golem	61 - 63
Ta'Vaalor	Red Forest	Warped tree spirit	68
Wehnimer's Landing	Red Forest	Warped tree spirit	68
Icemule Trace	Den of Rot	Seething pestilent vision Magna vereri	70 - 72
Ta'Illistim	Maaghara Tower	Shrickhen	76
Ta'Illistim	Old Ta'Faendryl	Lich qyn'arj night only	84
The Rift		Naisirc Seraceris N'ecare Lost soul Vaespilon Fallen crusader	75 - 97
Solhaven	Sanctum	Shambling lurk (97) Patchwork flesh monstrosity (98)	97 - 98
Teras Isle	Temple Nelemar	Spectral triton defender Ethereal triton sentry	98-103
The Rift	The Scatter	Murky soul siphon (106) Lich (110)	106 - 110

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See Also

• Treatise on the Undead (essay)