Undead Lord (Legendary Cleric Archetype)

Among clerics, there are those who employ the power of the divine to twist the cycle of life to their own ends, reanimating the dead to serve them or pushing themselves further towards undeath.

Necromantic Adept (Su)

At 1st level, the undead lord gains Command Undead as a bonus feat, using their Wisdom modifier in place of their Charisma modifier.

With a ritual requiring 8 hours, an undead lord can animate a single skeleton or zombie whose Hit Dice do not exceed their legendary cleric level. This corpse companion automatically follows their commands and does not need to be controlled by them. The undead lord cannot have more than one corpse companion at a time. It does not count against the number of Hit Dice of undead controlled by other methods. At 8th level, the undead lord can use this ability to create a variant skeleton such as a bloody or burning skeleton can dismiss her companion as a standard action, which destroys it.

• At 4th level, the undead lord gains darkvision out to 60 feet and may spend a faith point to gain a profane bonus to a saving throw against a channeled energy effect, mind-affecting effect, death effect, disease, paralysis, poison, sleep effect, fatigue, exhaustion, or stunning effect. This profane bonus is equal to half their legendary cleric level.
• At 8th level, when using the animate dead spell, a necromantic adept can control 6 HD worth of undead creatures per caster level rather than 4 HD.
• At 12th level, The undead lord may expend a faith point as a swift action to exude an aura of negative energy in a 30-foot radius for 1 minute. This aura functions as the spell desecrate and uses the undead lord as an altar of sorts to double the effects granted. The undead lord gains the benefits of this effect as if they were undead (but does not gain bonus hit points). In addition, this miasma of fell energies hinders the channeling of positive energy. Any creature that attempts to summon positive energy in this area—such as through a cleric’s channel energy ability, a paladin’s lay on hands, or any spell with the healing subtype—must make a concentration check with a DC equal to 10 + 1/2 the undead lord’s cleric level + the undead lord’s Wisdom modifier. If the character fails, the effect is expended but does not function.
• At 16th level, the undead lord may spend a faith point when casting animate dead, lesser animate dead, create undead, or create greater undead to ignore any material components for the spell.
• At 20th level, the undead lord becomes immune to mind-affecting effects, death effects, disease, paralysis, poison, fatigue, exhaustion, sleep effects, and stunning.

Table 6-2: Prophet Spells Prepared

Level	Spells Prepared
	0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	5	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	5	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4th	6	3	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5th	6	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6th	7	4	2	1	—	—	—	—	—	—
7th	7	5	3	2	—	—	—	—	—	—
8th	8	5	3	2	1	—	—	—	—	—
9th	8	5	4	3	2	—	—	—	—	—
10th	9	5	4	3	2	1	—	—	—	—
11th	9	5	5	4	3	2	—	—	—	—
12th	9	5	5	4	3	2	1	—	—	—
13th	9	5	5	4	4	3	2	—	—	—
14th	9	5	5	4	4	3	2	1	—	—
15th	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	2	—	—
16th	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	2	1	—
17th	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	—
18th	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	2	1
19th	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	2
20th	9	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	3

This replaces the domain gained at 1st level and true faith. An undead lord with the embodiment archetype may exchange any of these abilities for a bonus talent from the death sphere.

Necromantic Channel (Su)

The undead lord must choose to channel negative energy at 1st level. The undead lord is healed by negative energy and harmed by positive energy regardless of creature type.

Dominion of Undeath

The undead lord treats the following spells as domain spells of the corresponding levels. If the undead lord possesses the embodiment archetype, they instead select a talent from the death sphere at 1st level and every odd level thereafter.

1st–command undead
2nd–lesser animate dead
3rd–animate dead
4th-torpid reanimation
5th-flesh puppet horde
6th–create undead
7th–control undead
8th–create greater undead
9th–soul bind