Nemhaith

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(Creature)
Uncommon NE Medium Incorporeal Spirit Undead Level 15 Alignment LG NG CG LN N CN LE NE CE Source: Bestiary 3, pg(s). 185 Type Undead (incorporeal) CR 15 Environment Any Alignment LG NG CG LN N CN LE NE CE Source: Bestiary 5, pg(s). 182

A nemhaith, sometimes termed a nemhain, is a powerful type of undead that is deliberately created to guard an object or place to which the living person had devoted their life.

Appearance

A nemhaith looks like and ancient and desiccated corpse that is surrounded by a disembodied horde of bound spirits that the nemhaith can direct to attack its enemies.

Habitat and ecology

Nemhaiths are created by ancient, powerful, and profane rituals. A devotee is willingly sacrificed along with friends, family members, fellow devotees, and innocents—with or without their consent—and the resulting nemhaith then serves as a devoted, deathless guardian bound to a site or large unmoving object.

Most people who become a nemhaith were tasked with protecting a significant location, and others transform in pursuit of immortality. While not always evil in nature or created from evil sacrifices, its nature inevitably guides the resulting nemhaith toward darkness.

A nemhaith can grow more powerful by draining the life of living creatures and incorporating their souls into itself. To permanently destroy it and release its collected spirits, the object or location that created the nemhaith must be destroyed.

On Golarion

In the House of the Senses Awakened, located amongst the wilds of the Porthmos Gap in eastern Taldor, dwells a powerful nemhaith named Origen Sarlu who turned the former pleasure palace into a trap-laden mausoleum guarded by spectres, wights, wraiths, and ancient stone golems. So strong is Origen's devotion to the deceased Grand Prince Cydonus III that none has penetrated the House of the Senses Awakened since Origen turned it into the Grand Prince's tomb in 4081 AR.

External Links

• Nemhain (real-life mythical entity) on Wikipedia