Altair_the_Vexed
2010-04-27, 03:05 PM
Amid the detritus of the vampire spawn's crypt, you find a small padded box of crystal phials, each containing a dark, thick liquid, and stoppered with red wax.
Carefully collected and distilled from the blood of vampires, Vampiric Essence can transform the dying into vile undead spawn. Thus vampire lords seek to extend their influence and spread their kind through the lands of the living, without putting themselves at undue risk.
Vampiric Essence is a red-black liquid that can be applied to an unconscious character as if it were a potion. (It could conceivably be drunk by a conscious character, but due to its effect, this is less common. Few would pay such a grim price for continued existence...)
If the imbibing character is dying, he must make a Fortitude save, DC20, or the Essence kills him abruptly. Horribly, he will rise as a Vampire Spawn 1d4 hours later, or at the next nightfall, whichever is later.
Spawn created by Vampiric Essence are not under the direct control of the person who administered the Essence, nor the Vampire whose blood was used to make the Essence, but they begin dealings with those creatures on a Friendly status, and those creatures gain a +4 profane bonus to any checks to influence them through Intimidation of Diplomacy.
The Essence has no effect on a character who is not dying.
(Strong Necromancy; CL12; Requirements: Craft Wondrous Item, plus either vampiric dominate ability and create spawn ability, or Death Knell and Dominate Person and Create Greater Undead; cost: 3600gp)
PEACH!
Carefully collected and distilled from the blood of vampires, Vampiric Essence can transform the dying into vile undead spawn. Thus vampire lords seek to extend their influence and spread their kind through the lands of the living, without putting themselves at undue risk.
Vampiric Essence is a red-black liquid that can be applied to an unconscious character as if it were a potion. (It could conceivably be drunk by a conscious character, but due to its effect, this is less common. Few would pay such a grim price for continued existence...)
If the imbibing character is dying, he must make a Fortitude save, DC20, or the Essence kills him abruptly. Horribly, he will rise as a Vampire Spawn 1d4 hours later, or at the next nightfall, whichever is later.
Spawn created by Vampiric Essence are not under the direct control of the person who administered the Essence, nor the Vampire whose blood was used to make the Essence, but they begin dealings with those creatures on a Friendly status, and those creatures gain a +4 profane bonus to any checks to influence them through Intimidation of Diplomacy.
The Essence has no effect on a character who is not dying.
(Strong Necromancy; CL12; Requirements: Craft Wondrous Item, plus either vampiric dominate ability and create spawn ability, or Death Knell and Dominate Person and Create Greater Undead; cost: 3600gp)
PEACH!