Into the Wilds: Eternal Shroud

Into the Wilds: Eternal Shroud

The Eternal shroud is a new monster for Pathfinder 1e. These magically treated burial linens no longer contain a body. The cloth has absorbed the prepared subject’s bones and flesh, becoming sentient, mobile, and filled with a lust for vengeance.

Centuries ago, a power-hungry necromancer named Pacacuti murdered his cousin Manu (the chieftain’s eldest son and heir apparent). He dried, desiccated, and preserved Manu’s remains, wrapping them in funerary linins treated with witch’s oil and magical herbs. This ritual trapped the prince’s soul within the shroud and cursed him with undeath, forever unable to reach the afterlife. Ironically, Pacacuti’s rivals stole the secrets of the ritual and used it against him when he died. 

When eternal shrouds form, the original body of the preserved humanoid is completely absorbed by the funerary linens. The linens, now animated in undeath, drift along the air currents searching for vengeance upon the living. 

Eternal shrouds are often incorrectly identified as ghosts.