Creatures

The Übertaker

the body that hosts the gravedigger of a faraway underworld

HP 27, Morale −, Barrier (palefire) −d4

Performs a random action each round (d4):

  1. SCOURGE TAKE YOU. Creatures in melee range take d4 damage.
  2. BEHOLD THE POWER. Its next attack deals maximum damage.
  3. NO REPROACH ANSWERS. It spins the shovel and a random creature appears (Defense DR14, d6 damage).
  4. REST IS NOW. Skeletal hands pull a creature into the ground (prone + test Strength DR14 or d8 damage).

Special: When targeted by healing powers, the Übertaker loses rather than recovers HP. Upon destruction, the torn rune-covered robes can be rolled up and used as an Unclean Scroll (BEHOLD THE POWER — d4 creatures' next attacks deal maximum damage).

Lore: "Rising, floating a few feet above the ground, is the Undertaker's body. The face is gaunt, eyes sunken and filled with mad purple fire. Rune-covered robes swirl around grim feet, the shovel a fiery polearm of doom." Upon festering, the Undertaker's body and vengeful mind hosted a being both lesser and greater than human — a servant of a faraway underworld. This creature is concerned with one thing: to bring people back below dirt. The fog of Graven-Tosk swirls around the uncovered grave when it rises; the flies fall away into impossible silence.

Naming note: Graves Left Wanting is the only canonical Übertaker. The audit prompt asked whether Eat-Prey-Kill contains a competing Übertaker — it does not. Eat-Prey-Kill's Bergen Chrypt bestiary names an Überwolf (different creature). No disambiguator is needed.

Gaps / Expansion Notes

The "faraway underworld" the Übertaker serves is unnamed. Whether it is the same as the Death Realm (the parallel realm of undeath beyond Akünh's ziggurat), the Realm of the Dead glimpsed beneath the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead, or a third underworld is a CANON CHECK. The "palefire" barrier is described once and never explained — purple flame that wards weapons. Whether the Übertaker can be banished without destroying her body is unstated. The Undertaker's name in life is not given.