Remain Stalker

Remain Stalker
also known as Remains (Stalker)
Kind	Colony of animated organs, Small undead
Habitat	Darkness, ruins, sewers
Allegiance	Reminder
GM canon
first cited: [heralds-a#63]

Remain Stalker is not truly a corpse, but a colony of organs that learned to move together, born from the victims of the Cloudkill Ritual. ^{[heralds-a#67 · heralds-a#73 · heralds-a#74]}

Overview

A Remain Stalker forms from the lungs, intestines, and sinew of the dead left by the Cloudkill Ritual, fused into a single crawling body. ^{[heralds-a#67 · heralds-a#73 · heralds-a#74]} It clings to walls, ceilings, and rubble, lying in ambush in darkness until prey passes beneath it. ^{[heralds-a#67 · heralds-a#73 · heralds-a#74]}

Combat

A Remain Stalker's touch infects the victim with growing necrotic tumor tissue; the Tumor Infection saving throw is DC 14, and a DC 15 Medicine check made as an action is needed to remove the infection once it has taken hold. ^{[heralds-a#63]}

The Reminder's colony

Every Remain Stalker in Deadreach instinctively obeys Reminder, the gargantuan colony-mind gathered beneath the city; if the Reminder dies, its bond to the Remains breaks. ^{[heralds-a#75 · heralds-a#76]} When Reminder was killed, the Remain Stalkers of Deadreach lost their coordination and withdrew into hiding. ^{[heralds-a#147 · heralds-a#149]}

Related pages

• Reminder — the colony-mind every Remain Stalker instinctively obeys
• Remains — the broader undead phenomenon Remain Stalkers belong to
• Walking Hulk of Remains — a larger fusion of Remains, sharing the same origin
• Cloudkill Ritual — the catastrophe whose victims became the Remains
• Tumor Infection — the necrotic infection a Remain Stalker's attacks inflict
• Cloudkill — the spell variant behind the ritual
• Aric Rosemen — count of Rosereach, evacuated before the city's fall that produced the Remains

Unconfirmed ideas

The source conversations contain proposals for Remain Stalker that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on Idea:Remain Stalker so they cannot be mistaken for canon.