Dark Bone Skeletons: Haunted ruins are filled with shambling dead, and dark-boned
skeletons are thankfully among the less common. A dark-boned
skeleton, true to its name, has age-blackened bones that help it
stay concealed in its subterranean environment. An eerie green
light flickers in its empty eye sockets, but it is
virtually mindless. It is not a particularly
tough combatant for its size, but it attacks
anything it detects and keeps
fighting to the death.
Dry Bone Skeletons:
Dry-bone skeletons are the cursed remains of those who have
died by fire or by the heat of Norrath's deserts. Some bards even
suggest the dry-bones are the remains of those who angered
Solusek Ro, which might explain why these undead are most
commonly found in the Antonican desert that bears the god's
name.
A dry-bone skeleton, despite the name, is not brittle - very
much the opposite. Baked in the fierce desert heat, its bones
are tough and resistant to damage. Dry-bones often wear
bronze armor and carry bronze weapons, suggesting that
they are the remnants of desert raiders (the more romantic
versions have them as the cursed elven guards
who remained in T unaria even after Solusek Ro
turned the verdant paradise into a desert). They
possess a feral intelligence, seeking to slay spellcasters
in particular. Whatever their motivation,
they are implacable foes.
Ice Bone Skeletons:
On high mountain peaks, deep underground, or in the cold
climates ofNorrath, ice-bone skeletons might be found wherever
a traveler once froze to death with her spirit never laid to rest. An
ice-bone skeleton looks much like any other skeleton until it is
viewed up close. Then the small crystals of ice are visible,
clustering on ribs and thighbones. Its claws are like jaggedicicles,
and its touch brings a chilling weakness.
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