Appearance

A towering skeleton wrapped in funeral banners that crawl and whip with a life of their own. The banners are tattered black, white, and gold, each edge stitched with faint necrotic runes that glow faintly when the giant prepares a blow. The bones themselves creak with every movement, and the banners flutter as if stirred by a cold, unseen wind. When it advances, the banners unfurl like tattered wings, weaving a somber, ceremonial aura that chills the blood of onlookers. Its eyes glow a pale ember, and banners rustle and whispered chants seem to emanate from the cloth itself.

Behavior & Origins

This colossal undead was once a guardian priest or mourner, tasked with protecting a sacred mausoleum and guiding the dead to their final rest. After a cataclysmic event shattered the burial rites of a clannish people, their funerary banners were ritually bound into a single colossal phylactery that reanimated their guardian as a monument to ritual and remembrance. The Banner Colossus moves with slow, deliberate purpose, striking with the weight of centuries of mourning. It feeds on the fear and despair of those who disturb sacred graves, and the banners themselves seem to hunger for life-saving offerings or ceremonial tokens to keep the rite whole. Adventurers who face this foe must endure both physical onslaught and the oppressive aura of funeral rites that encase the battlefield.