Liber Des Exanima: Shiver for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

Art by Damon Hellandbrand

Septimus Odrik, the necromancer lord of Haverhill and the author of the Liber Des Exanima, a treatise on undeath containing nearly twenty rituals for the creation of different types of undead, found the inspiration for the shiver from the a tale told to him by Evanetta La Lurna, the Blue Bard of Bal'Tur. La Lurna's story share the fate of the Seven Dragoon, a famous adventuring party led by Captain Zeea Throkmorton, that was ambushed by a tribe of yetis on the Bornee Tundra. Odrik's ritual requires 3 yeti brains, the hand of an arcanist, and the skin of a chameleon. 

 

 

Liber Des Exanima: The Boneheaver for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

 

Art by NerdGore

Septimus Odrik, the necromancer lord of Haverhill and the author of the Infernemans, a treatise on undeath containing nearly twenty rituals for the creation of different types of undead, used a cousin named Deeter as inspiration for the Boneheaver. Apparently, Deeter, lord of the Barony of Afterfall would eat until he vomited in a golden bucket held by his servants so that he could continue to eat most of each day. Odrik observed this one Winterlight personally and he even referenced it after becoming a lich. The ritual requires a living ogre, the stomach of a chimera, as well as the arms and lungs of a gravedigger. 

Liber Des Exanima: The Hush for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

Septimus Odrik, the necromancer lord of Haverhill and the author of the Infernemans, a treatise on undeath containing nearly twenty rituals for the creation of different types of undead, viewed the creation of the Hush as his magnum opus. The ritual requires at least five children with innate magical ability to be sacrificed to Orcus over a period of several day and requires the tongue of a magic-user as the culmination of the foul rite. Rumor has it that Odrik's personal manse has five packs of the hush patrolling its grounds.