Remains

Remains
Kind	Colony of animated organs and tumorous flesh
Threat	Infectious; hunts in darkness, vulnerable to sunlight
Habitat	Darkness
Allegiance	Reminder
GM canon
first cited: [heralds-a#17]

Remains are undead that grow from the organs and soft tissue of the dead, carrying a collective will of their own and spreading tumorous infection to any living creature they touch. ^{[heralds-a#17 · heralds-a#51]}

Overview

When an undead among the dead does not simply stay dead, it becomes a Remains: something that resembles the burst, tumorous innards of a body, yet still haunts, hides, and hunts the living. ^{[heralds-a#17]} Contact spreads the tumours it carries to any creature it strikes. ^{[heralds-a#17]} Most Remains bodies are mindless, but the most developed ones — hulking masses of innards and tumours — are intelligent and powerful. ^{[heralds-a#17]}

Composition and infection

Remains are formed from the organs and some of the soft tissue of the dead, and hold a will of their own in common rather than individually. ^{[heralds-a#51]} Striking a victim spreads a disease that grows into internal tumours; over time the host loses their own mind, and the tumorous organs kill the host and burst outward. ^{[heralds-a#51]} An infected corpse that is not purified threatens to produce a new Remain Stalker. ^{[heralds-a#114]}

Behavior

Remains hunt in darkness and are vulnerable to sunlight — stealthy, bursting undead. ^{[heralds-a#51]}

The Reminder's network

During the Deadreach arc, the Remains were bound into a colony-mind network centered on Reminder. ^{[heralds-a#147 · heralds-a#149]} When the Reminder was killed, the network's central mind broke: the Hulks scattered and the remaining Remains went into hiding. ^{[heralds-a#146 · heralds-a#147 · heralds-a#149]}

In play

Pell Voss was struck and infected with Remains tumours; the wound was sealed off rather than left to run its course. ^{[heralds-a#114]}

Related pages

• Reminder — led the Remains through a colony-mind; its death shattered the network
• Remain Stalker — the mobile predator form an infected, unpurified corpse threatens to produce
• Pell Voss — bitten and infected by Remains tumours, since sealed off
• Hulks — the most developed, intelligent and powerful Remains bodies
• Deadreach — the dead city these creatures now haunt
• Smoker — the other undead born of Rosereach's fall, distinct from the Remains

Unconfirmed ideas

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