Lesser Smoker
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| Lesser Smoker | |
|---|---|
| Kind | Undead |
| GM canon | |
| first cited: [heralds-a#93] | |
Lesser Smoker is the most common kind of undead roaming the streets of Deadreach, its body filled with corrupted necromantic vapor — a fragment of the catastrophic Cloudkill Ritual that destroyed the County of Rosereach. [heralds-a#93]
Appearance
A Lesser Smoker looks like a corpse inflated from within, its jaw hanging permanently open. [heralds-a#93] Thin green smoke leaks constantly from its throat and eye sockets, and its cracked rib cage glows faintly from the pressure building up inside it. [heralds-a#93] When it exhales, the smoke inside its body shifts like a storm cloud trying to escape. [heralds-a#93]
Nature and behavior
Lesser Smokers are not intelligent, but their corrupted bodies instinctively move toward living creatures, wandering the streets of Deadreach in small groups and following noise or movement. [heralds-a#93] Their lungs wheeze constantly like broken bellows, and when too much pressure builds up inside them, they violently cough up bursts of toxic gas. [heralds-a#93] They tend to cluster together without meaning to, which is dangerous: when a Lesser Smoker dies its chest ruptures and releases a cloud of poison gas, and if another one dies nearby soon after, that cloud grows even larger, so groups of them can trigger chain-reaction gas bursts. [heralds-a#93]
Related pages
- Cloudkill Ritual — the catastrophe whose leftover magic fills every Lesser Smoker's body
- Modified Cloudkill Spell — the spell behind that ritual
- Smoker — the broader undead category Lesser Smokers belong to
- Remains — the other undead kind that shares the streets of Deadreach
- Autumn Elf — the people of the ranger variant reported among Lesser Smokers
- Deadreach — the dead city where Lesser Smokers are the most common undead
- Cloudkill — the underlying magical effect that created them
- County of Rosereach — the county destroyed by the ritual, now Deadreach
Unconfirmed ideas
The source conversations contain proposals for Lesser Smoker that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on Idea:Lesser Smoker so they cannot be mistaken for canon.