Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-31077246-20170125234524

Type: Undead

Location: Undead Realms, Demon Realms, Ancient Northern Ruins

Disposition: Honorable, Loyal, Faithful, Defensive

Diet: Men's Spirit Energy

This monster is a unique and rare variant of undead warriors in the monster world. Unlike a dullahan, the death knight holds far more power, boasting incredible strength, a plethora of dark magic, endless stamina and a special rune magic only specialised to death knights alone. They also come with three sub-classes that specialize in a specific category of dark magic. The three classes are Frost, Blood, and Unholy. However, this power comes with a price, as they are far harder to create, meaning undead grey lamination mushrooms and cursed armor simply will not work. They also require more of men's spirit energy as demand for their magical abilities.

Death Knights originally were formiddable killing machines, being seemingly unstoppable warriors by mortal men. The demon lord's influence has mellowed down the old existing ones. These can be found in ancient ruins of their old masters or under command by higher commanding undead/demons as a higher-ranking officer (usually).

The process to create a death knight is called "The Pale King's Right", a long deceased entity before the current demon lord, and requires botanical ingredients, certain runes, a properly-made ritual altar, a tedious, complicated and annoying ritual and most importantly: the fresh dead body of a fallen noble warrior, like a paladin or knight (duh); any body will do, even a male body. Because of the monsterfication of the ritual, the male body will become female, much like a skeleton would (except stupidly complex). After all the needed recipes are found, a tedious process must be done. First, specified runes must be applied to the dead body: one on the torso, each arm and leg, the head and nether regions. Next, the botanical ingredients, undead grey lamenation mushroom as the primary ingredient, must be crushed into a powder and boiled in water. The water, once cooled, can safely be poured on the body, and will soak into the skin. After this, a long and tedious spell must be chanted by a more powerful necrotic/demonic spell caster, usually a lich, wight, lilim, etc. A plentiful amount of demon energy will be required for the incantation, as the monsterfication of a death knight requires much. After this, an incubation phaze must occur, so that the plentiful demon energy can slowly metamorphesize the body into a death knight. After the ritual is complete, they will awaken, stand before the leading ritualist, kneel to them and vow any loyalty to them.

If ANY monsterfication occurs before the incantation phaze, the entire process will fail, and the result will create a random lesser undead, except noticeably stronger than average due to the demon energy radiated into it.

Death knights can gain unique ways of gaining spirit energy, unlike any other monster race. The most common way for a death knight is through a special spell that drains the spirit energy from the victim, usually making a man pass out; a female victim will go through a monsterization process like any other human. The next mean is similar, but through a special enchantment for their weapons, only specialized to the death knight. Witht he strike of the enchanted blade with this rune, the spirit energy is absorbed like the spell, except from the weapon; this process works similar to the spell, but is generally weaker and mainly used for continued combat without stopping. Copulation with a death knight only occurs after they find a man that fits their desire and code of honor.

Before any man they fall for, they remain rather emotionless, only loyal to their master without end. General relations with a death knight occur human-like and without the need for a fight to gain their heart. However, the people they seek is almost always an honorable, loyal individual, with a willful heart of courage. Individuals like so make good friends with this undead, even if they don't show it well. If the individual is a male, and suits their fancy, she will begin to gain a warm feeling alien to her usual cold, emotionless self. They will slowly fall in love with the man, trying everything in their way to even just get closer to them, through the bounds of their superior, of course. However, when the tipping point is reached, and the desire for the man is too great, she will even leave the loyalty of their superior to become fully loyal to their love. It is at this time where the death knight become sits weakest, as it has no idea what to think or feel. During sex, the death knight feels a sense of ecstacy it has never felt before, and permanently flushes their old pigmentation, contrary to their previously dead pale skin. This is when they claim the man as their husband, with an undying loyalty to them. They will usually also try to regain loyalty to their old master as well, as they will generally feel ashamed for leaving them. If they refuse them, they will simply stay with their husband even after death.

[I hope you enjoy the read! I plan to create the sub-categories at a later time. For, please send me feedback on my monsters as I will take any critisizm on them respectfully.]

[Primarily based on the Death Knight class from WoW.] 