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An undead skeleton character from the fantasy video game The Battle for Wesnoth. Animated skeletons have been used and portrayed extensively in fantasy role-playing games . In a tradition that goes back to the pen-and-paper game Dungeons & Dragons , the basic animated skeleton is commonly employed as a low-level undead enemy, typically easy for ...
The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if they were alive. A common example of an undead being is a corpse reanimated by supernatural forces, by the application of either the deceased's own life force or that of a supernatural being (such as a demon , or other evil spirit).
Creatures in H.P. Lovecraft novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath; Ghast (Dungeons & Dragons), undead creatures in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game; A creature in the Spook's series by Joseph Delaney; Cliff-ghasts, creatures in the His Dark Materials trilogy; Ghasts, a monster in the video game Minecraft
The more recent use of the term lich for a specific type of undead creature originates from the 1976 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game booklet Greyhawk, written by Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz. [ 2 ] Often such a creature is the result of a willful transformation, as a powerful wizard skilled in necromancy who seeks eternal life uses rare ...
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess featured an enemy known as a ReDead Knight, which combined features from Gibdo and ReDeads (another undead enemy from the series). Mummified versions of different humanoid races, such as humans, dwarves and elves, appear as enemies in NetHack. In Minecraft, there is a mummy-related zombie known as the "husk".
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During the game the player battles Waffen SS soldiers, elite Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) known as Black Guards, undead creatures, and Übersoldaten (supersoldiers) formed from a blend of surgery and chemical engineering conducted by Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse. The end boss is an undead Saxon warrior-prince named Heinrich I.
These undead creatures were believed to fly at night in a form of an owl and attack night-time travelers and people who had wandered off into the woods at night, sucking out their blood and eating their insides. [12] Strzyga were also believed to be satisfied with animal blood, for a short period of time. [2]