Looking for fluff--eldritch machine - Downloaded from the Wizards Community, all coding removed by Solauren

Looking for fluff--eldritch machine

Post/Author/DateTime Post
#1
bwcmd1
Mar 09, 2009 6:27:47 Just looking for a little assistance trying to come up with a description for an eldritch machine I'm throwing at the party. I've got all the rules I want down for it, just having a hard time picturing what an eldritch machine might look like. Essentially, it emits a broad necromantic field that causes the recently dead to rise as zombies (was reading through Open Grave and decided I needed to throw a zombie horde at the party).
Any suggestions?
#2
ellorin
Mar 09, 2009 7:34:27 When it comes to eldritch machines I always use a lot of dragonshards forming one or more patterns. In your case, I feel that Khyber dragonshards are the most appropriate. Other materials for your reanimator might be actual human flesh or bones. Glass and arcane marks might work as well.If it was created by a member of church it might look like the deity's symbol or one of its depictions(i.e. more like a statue than a machine. Other machines i have described as a complete mess of metal tubes, wood and stone. Once I even considered a machine that was a model of the city it would affect.
#3
tiwaztyrsfist
Mar 10, 2009 19:19:26 I picture a large Khyber shard, radiating green energy, in a framework of bone and rotted flesh. I would picture the thing being made not just of Human flesh and bone, but rather out of Zombie flesh and bone. Perhaps the core of the machine, tied into the shard or shards, could be the dessicated heart of a lich.
#4
salla
Mar 10, 2009 19:55:57 For some reason, I tend to think of those really unwieldy and over complicated machines that Jack Kirby drew in supervillain lairs in comic books.
#5
Alex_
Mar 13, 2009 12:33:27 Your generic black spiky tower thing with magical leylines strewn across it works well enough.

Eldritch machine is any big magical construct that does magic stuff. Creation Forges, the Twin Towers from LOTR, or the Mako Reactors from FF7.

Personally, nothing says dark necromantic field emitter like a spiky spire covered in runes and magical leylines some hundred or more meters high.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 bwcmd1 Mar 09, 2009 6:27:47	Just looking for a little assistance trying to come up with a description for an eldritch machine I'm throwing at the party. I've got all the rules I want down for it, just having a hard time picturing what an eldritch machine might look like. Essentially, it emits a broad necromantic field that causes the recently dead to rise as zombies (was reading through Open Grave and decided I needed to throw a zombie horde at the party). Any suggestions?
#2 ellorin Mar 09, 2009 7:34:27	When it comes to eldritch machines I always use a lot of dragonshards forming one or more patterns. In your case, I feel that Khyber dragonshards are the most appropriate. Other materials for your reanimator might be actual human flesh or bones. Glass and arcane marks might work as well.If it was created by a member of church it might look like the deity's symbol or one of its depictions(i.e. more like a statue than a machine. Other machines i have described as a complete mess of metal tubes, wood and stone. Once I even considered a machine that was a model of the city it would affect.
#3 tiwaztyrsfist Mar 10, 2009 19:19:26	I picture a large Khyber shard, radiating green energy, in a framework of bone and rotted flesh. I would picture the thing being made not just of Human flesh and bone, but rather out of Zombie flesh and bone. Perhaps the core of the machine, tied into the shard or shards, could be the dessicated heart of a lich.
#4 salla Mar 10, 2009 19:55:57	For some reason, I tend to think of those really unwieldy and over complicated machines that Jack Kirby drew in supervillain lairs in comic books.
#5 Alex_ Mar 13, 2009 12:33:27	Your generic black spiky tower thing with magical leylines strewn across it works well enough. Eldritch machine is any big magical construct that does magic stuff. Creation Forges, the Twin Towers from LOTR, or the Mako Reactors from FF7. Personally, nothing says dark necromantic field emitter like a spiky spire covered in runes and magical leylines some hundred or more meters high.