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An undead zombie.

Undead are a type of creature that has died and been brought back through magical or spiritual means. They can be frequently found throughout Baldur's Gate 3, most notably during Act Three, and may be created through various spells and actions available to players and NPCs.

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Remnants of the once-living that are trapped between life and death.
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— In-game racial description

Characteristics

Most undead are reanimated from formerly living creatures, and generally exist between the realms of the living and the dead. As such, certain damage types or status effects that would normally be effective against organic creatures are ineffective against undead creatures. Damage TypesPoison and Damage TypesNecrotic resistances appear quite commonly, and some are often immune to Poison or Necrotic damage, or both. Similarly, they are unaffected by many conditions such as Bleeding Bleeding and Poisoned Poisoned.

Conversely, almost all healing effects including Healing Word Healing Word, Lay on Hands Lay on Hands, and Preserve Life Preserve Life have no effect on undead. However, potions can still heal them.

Types of undead

Crawling Claw

Main articles: Crawling Claw and Crawling claw on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Severed from their owners and skittering along on digits still stiff with rigor mortis, these hands can squeeze the breath from a throat in an instant.
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— In-game racial description

Crawling claw and reanimated severed limbs, usually created to perform menial tasks as a servant by dark wizards. Lacking a brain, crawling claws don't possess intelligence although they can still hear and understand basic commands.

Crawling claws in Baldur's Gate 3

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Dark Justiciar

Main articles: Dark Justiciar and Dark Justiciars on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Remnants of the once-living that are trapped between life and death.
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— In-game racial description

Dark Justiciar are elite warriors who serve Shar, even after death. They can be found mainly in the Gauntlet of Shar in Act Two, as well as corpses in Grymforge during Act One.

Dark Justiciars in Baldur's Gate 3

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Death Knight

Main articles: Death Knight and Death knight on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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When a fallen paladin dies without atonement, it can be brought back from the grave as something entirely different - entirely evil.
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— In-game racial description

Death knights are reanimated warriors, often created from characters who were evil in life. They appear fully clad in armour, which hides their rotting skin such that only their eyes show through as pinpoints of light. Death knights were most often created from paladin-type characters.

Death knights in Baldur's Gate 3

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Flying Ghoul

Main articles: Flying Ghoul
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With their jagged wings and razor-sharp teeth, these undead gorge on humanoid flesh in the depth of night.
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— In-game racial description

Flying Ghouls are flying variants of the regular Ghoul. They have large jagged wings and often swoop down to consume humanoid corpses

Flying ghouls in Baldur's Gate 3

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Ghast

Main articles: Ghast and Ghast on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Orcus, god of undeath, creates ghasts by infusing ghouls with a particularly baleful dosage of his abyssal energy. Whereas a ghoul is little more than a savage beast, a ghast is cunning and can inspire a pack of ghouls to obey its commands.
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— In-game racial description

Ghasts are very similar to ghouls - humanoid creatures that can paralyze their foes with their claws and teeth. They are generally more cunning and deadly, but carry the stench of rotting flesh. This stench is so severe it can cause nausea, and even paralysis.

Ghasts in Baldur's Gate 3

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Ghost

Main articles: Ghost and Ghost on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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The soul of a once-living creature, bound to the material plane by its desire to resolve some unfinished task from its life.
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— In-game racial description

Ghosts are spirits that are bound to someone or some place, either from being denied a proper burial or by having unfinished business when they died. Being incorporeal, they can fly and pass through solid objects as they please.

Ghosts in Baldur's Gate 3

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Ghoul

Main articles: Ghoul and Ghoul on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Driven by their insatiable hunger for humanoid flesh, ghouls usually roam the night in packs.
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— In-game racial description

Ghouls are humanoid looking carnivorous creatures that devour corpses and hunger for the flesh of living beings. They have long sharp teeth, and can paralyze their prey with claw or bite wounds.

Ghouls in Baldur's Gate 3

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Grim Visage

Main articles: Grim Visage and Grim Visage on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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These skulls spawned from Gerringothe Thorm's twisted psyche. Manifestations of her worst flaws, they keep the coins of her protective armour intact.
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— In-game racial description

Grim visages are floating skulls created from various aspects of Gerringothe Thorm's personality to guard her coins. There are 6 of them, and defeating them removes armor from Gerringothe.

Grim Visages in Baldur's Gate 3

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Mummy

Main articles: Mummy and Mummy on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Shambling, their bodies clothed with rotted scraps of funereal wrappings, mummies bring their malice with them out of their tombs.
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— In-game racial description

Mummies are undead creatures created from preserved, mummified corpses. They retain the bandages that wrapped and preserved the original body, but are in various stages of extreme decay. If attacked by a mummy, a condition known as mummy rot may be inflicted.

Mummies in Baldur's Gate 3

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Mummy Lord

Main articles: Mummy Lord and Mummy lord on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Huddled in their sarcophagi like sickly penitents, mummy lords creep out to protect their tombs, their crumbling rags host to fierce ancient fists and skin crawling with curses.
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— In-game racial description

Mummy lords are more powerful, intelligent versions of Mummies that are created from powerful and/or evil creatures. If defeated, they will automatically reform in their lair unless their desiccated hearts are destroyed by found and destroyed by fire.

Mummy Lords in Baldur's Gate 3

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Shadow

Main articles: Shadow and Shadow on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Resembling dark exaggerations of humanoid shadows, these undead feed on the vitality of the living creatures they were once part of.
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— In-game racial description

Shadows are dark, incorporeal creatures that can be frequently found in Act Two. They are twisted remnants of once living creatures that are twisted by the shadow curse. When defeated, they frequently leave behind a Shadow Vestige which details fragments of the shadow's former life.

Shadows in Baldur's Gate 3

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Skeleton

Main articles: Skeleton and Skeleton on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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The remains of the dead, animated by dark magic - be they summoned by spellcasters, or risen on their own.
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— In-game racial description

Skeletons are a commonly encountered form of undead. They are animated from a corpse of a creature that is devoid of flesh. Consisting of mainly brittle bones, skeletons are vulnerable to Damage TypesBludgeoning damage and can be created through various magic spells.

Skeletons in Baldur's Gate 3

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Undead Dragon

Main article: Undead Dragon
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Bones studded with rotting scales and draped with dead tissue, these dragons have been animated by fell necromancy.
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— In-game racial description

Undead dragons are extremely rare dragon creatures reanimated using extremely powerful magic. Their bodies are skeletal in appearance, and they retain much of their abilities and magic as they did in their previous life.

Undead dragons in Baldur's Gate 3

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Vampire

Main articles: Vampire and Vampire on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Amiable aristocrats and cold-hearted hunters, vampires are the embodiments of evening made flesh.
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— In-game racial description

Vampires are powerful undead creatures with pale-skin, blood-red eyes, and sharp canine teeth which they use to pierce and drink the blood of their victims. They also have sharp claws and can regenerate, as well as turn other humanoid creatures into vampire spawn by feeding on them. Most notably however, they are sensitive to sunlight and their skin will burn in its presence.

Vampires in Baldur's Gate 3

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Vampire Spawn

Main articles: Vampire Spawn and Vampire spawn on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Subservient to the one who created them, vampire spawn are deadly hunters both ravenous and proud.
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— In-game racial description

Vampire spawn are creatures created when a vampire bites and drinks the blood of a humanoid creature. They have some of the features of a vampire such as sensitivity to light and a hunger for blood, but have no free-will unless their master is killed or their freedom is granted.

Vampire spawn in Baldur's Gate 3

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Wraith

Main articles: Wraith and Wraith on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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A wraith is malice incarnate, concentrated into an incorporeal form that seeks to quench all life. Even small fires can be extinguished by the sucking oblivion of the wraith's horrifying existence.
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— In-game racial description

Wraiths are similar in appearance to Shadows, and can also be found in Act Two. In combat, Wraiths will frequently teleport from shadow to shadow. They will also generate an Aura of Vile Oblivion Aura of Vile Oblivion which snuffs out nearby light sources and can drain the life of their enemies.

Wraiths in Baldur's Gate 3

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Zombie

Main articles: Zombie and Zombie on the Forgotten Realms Wiki
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Mindless remains of the dead, imbued with necromantic magic, zombies do their creator's bidding without fear or hesitation.
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— In-game racial description

Zombies are a common form of undead similar to Skeletons except they still retain significant amounts of flesh. Mindless and often missing body parts, zombies can be created from most living creatures and they usually form the backbone of any necromancer's army. Zombies can be difficult to kill, often reviving after receiving a fatal blow.

Zombies in Baldur's Gate 3

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