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Sea Scorned
Medium Undead (Incorporeal)
Hit Dice: 6d12 (39 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: Fly 40 ft. (perfect)(8 squares)
Armor Class: 16 (+1 Dex, +5 deflection),
touch 16, flat-footed 15
Base Attack/Grapple: +3/-
Attack: Incorporeal touch +5 melee (watery
fate)
Full Attack: Incorporeal touch +5 melee
(watery fate)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft
Special Attacks: Sailor’s curse, watery fate
Special Qualities: +6 turn resistance, damage
reduction 10/silver, darkvision 60 ft., final burial,
incorporeal traits, undead traits, water walk
This human woman appears translucent and
hazy. She looks mournful, staring towards the sea.
A very rare form of undead, a sea scorned is
the wife or lover of a sailor and wanderer slain while
traveling the seas. Although they took their lives to
end their lonely despair, they become sea scorned,
doomed to stand vigil forever, waiting for their
sailors to return home.
A sea scorned appears as a translucent figure,
looking much the same as it did in life. It haunts
coasts, ports, lookouts, lighthouses, and trade routes,
calling out to its long-dead loved one in the hope he
or she will come home. Sea scorned prefer regions
that are treacherous to ships, such as reefs or rocky
coastlines.
Sea scorned see every ship as their lost lover’s
ship, and any member of the appropriate sex may
be their lover if seen at a distance. This drives the
sea scorned to investigate further, but when it finally
learns that its beloved has not returned, it becomes
enraged and tries to kill the creature that has tricked
them. The cry of the sea scorned is an ill omen to
most sailors, for it is rumored to cause the doom of
passing ships.
Sea scorned can speak but rarely do so
intelligently, instead wailing and calling out for
their lover ceaselessly. Attempts to discourse with
them have been largely unsuccessful, as they refuse
to accept the reality of their own demise and grow
angry at the accusation of being dead.
Combat
These creatures ignore most living beings not
onboard ships. When the sea scorned sees a ship, it
calls out using its sailor’s curse ability in the hopes
of destroying the ship. If this fails, the sea scorned
ignores the vessel unless it sees someone resembling
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Saves: Fort +2, Ref +3, Will +7
Abilities: Str -, Dex 12, Con -, Int 12. Wis 14.
Cha 20
Skills: Diplomacy +7, Hide +14, Listen +11,
Search +10, Sense Motive +11, Spot +11,
Survival +2 (+4 following tracks)
Feats: Ability Focus (watery fate), Ability
Focus (sailor’s curse), Weapon Focus
(incorporeal touch)
Environment: Any
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 7
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually neutral evil
Advancement: —
Level Adjustment: —
its lost love. When it learns its lover is not present, it
uses its watery fate power to kill the crew, and then
leaves the ship to return to its lookout point.
Sailor’s Curse (Su): Sailors who hear a sea
scorned’s wailing call fall under a curse of bad luck.
Their sailing skills atrophy, and cursed ships often
run into reefs, bad weather or similar threats. Once
per minute a sea scorned may cry out as a full-round
action. Everyone within one mile must make a DC
20 Will save or suffer a -8 penalty on Profession
(sailor) checks, Swim checks and all Listen and Spot
checks to detect threatening conditions for ships,
such as reefs. The save DC is Charisma-based.
Watery Fate (Su): With a touch, a sea scorned
can cause a victim’s lungs to fill with water. Anyone
hit by the sea scorned must make a DC 20 Fortitude
save or take 1d4 points of Constitution damage and
become nauseated. Each round the victim must make
another Fortitude save to break the effect, receiving
a cumulative +1 bonus to its saving throw for each
previous failed attempt. Each round the victim fails
the save it suffers another 1d4 points of Constitution
damage and remains nauseated. As soon as the target
makes a successful save, it stops taking damage and
is no longer nauseated. The Constitution damage
remains. The save is Charisma-based.
Final Burial (Su): A sea scorned reduced to
0 hp disappears and does not return until the next
vessel sails by its lair. The only way to put these
undead to rest permanently is to bring them the
remains of their lost love or inter their own bones in
holy ground.
Water Walk (Su): A sea scorned continually
produces an effect like that of a water walk spell
(caster level 20th).
Skills: A sea scorned has a +4 racial bonus on
Hide checks.
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