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Blackfrost Zombie

Creature 6 (rare) — cold, mindless, undead, unholy, zombie

Pre-Remaster content. May include legacy alignment.

Most creatures who perish from the cold while cursed with blackfrost rise as zombies. Though mindless, blackfrost zombies are driven by the Invisible will of blackfrost to spread their foul curse. These shambling arctic horrors are dead in name alone. Creatures who succumb to the frigid elements while cursed by blackfrost don't become mere corpses entombed in ice but rather vicious undead capable of spreading the curse of blackfrost even further. Cracked, frostbitten flesh that emits a freezing

Source: gatewalkers-bestiary (Pre-Remaster)

Perception +10
Skills athletics +15
Str
+5
Dex
+2
Con
+4
Int
-5
Wis
+0
Cha
+0
AC 23 Fort +16 Ref +12 Will +8
HP 120
Immunities bleed, cold, death-effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious
Weaknesses fire 5
Speed 20 feet

Offense

Melee Fist +15, Damage 2d6+5 bludgeoning plus 1d6 cold
Melee Jaws +15, Damage 2d4+5 piercing plus 1d6 cold

Abilities

Ice Climb 20 feet — The blackfrost dead can climb on ice as though it had the listed climb Speed. It ignores difficult terrain and greater difficult terrain from ice and snow and doesn't risk falling when crossing ice.
Opportune Bite
Void Healing — Negative Healing
Blackfrost (cold, curse, disease, occult) — This affliction can't be reduced below stage 1, nor the damage from it healed, until successfully treated with Cleanse Affliction or a similar effect; the affliction can then be removed as a normal disease. A creature that dies from cold damage while cursed with blackfrost rises as a blackfrost dead after 24 hours. Blackfrost has a counteract rank of 10. Saving Throw DC 27 Fortitude Stage 1 4d6 cold (1 minute) Stage 2 weakness to cold 5 and Drained 1 (1 day) Stage 3 weakness to cold 10 and Drained 2 (1 day)
Blackfrost Breath (occult) — The blackfrost dead gasps sharply, then exhales a mist of dark-blue blackfrost particles in a 5-foot emanation. All creatures within the mist become Concealed, and all creatures outside the mist become concealed to creatures within it. The mist persists for 1 minute. A creature that ends its turn in the mist is exposed to blackfrost. The blackfrost dead can't use Blackfrost Breath again for 1d4 rounds.

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