Mummy

A mummy is an undead creature, usually of lawful evil alignment, created from a preserved corpse that have been animated by the dark gods of the desert. These horrid creatures are often marked with symbols of the dire gods they serve. While other undead often stink of carrion, the herbs and powders used to create a mummy give off a sharp, pungent odor like that of a spice cabinet. Mummies cause fear in the living on sight, and any creature they touch is affected by a rotting curse called mummy rot. Inhabiting great tombs or temple complexes they maintain a timeless vigil and destroying would-be grave robbers.

A mummy moves with a slow, shambling gait and groans with the weight of the ages and attacks intruders without pause or mercy. They never attempt to communicate with their enemies and never retreat. An encounter with a mummy usually ends with only with the destruction of one combatant or the other.

Variants

 * Mummy lord: Mummy lords are often potent spellcasters. They are found as guardians of the tombs of high lords, priests, and mages. Most are sworn to defend for eternity the resting place of those whom they served in life, but in some cases a mummy lord's unliving state is the result of a terrible curse or rite designed to punish treason, infidelity, or crimes of an even more abhorrent nature. A mummy lord of this sort is usually imprisoned in a tomb that is never meant to be opened again.
 * Greater Mummy: These are mummified priests of a god who, through being imbued with dark magic, becomes a creature of the undead.
 * Hunefer: These mummies of demigods whose power has not utterly departed to astral realms.
 * Huecuva: Huecuva are created from divine or oath-bound creatures who have failed in their vows.
 * Mummy Lord: These are unusually powerful or evil individuals preserved after death.
 * Swarm-Shifter: These mummies appear like a normal undead until their body explodes into a swarm of smaller creatures.
 * Resurrected Mummy: These mummies are formed from the wrapped corpse of a dead body, the ashes of a dead creature, and a necromancer's stone.
 * Crawling Apocalypse: A creature that resembles a giant mummified octopus
 * Salt Mummy: Ancient corpses of humanoids preserved by being buried in salt. Salt mummies were generally very evil when they were alive.
 * Ice Mummy: A creature that succumbs to an ice mummy's rot freezes and shatters, melting into nothing at the first thaw.
 * Bog Mummy: Corpses preserved through the natural action of bogs or swamps and animated through evil magic
 * Clay Mummy: Unlike standard mummies, clay mummies are vulnerable to bludgeoning weapons rather than fire.