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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.

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. Poison and Necrotic 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 and Poisoned.

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

Types of undead

Crawling Claw

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

Dark Justiciar

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 Justiciar in Baldur's Gate 3

Death Knight

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

Ghast

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

Ghost

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

Ghoul

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

Grim Visage

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

Mummy

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

Mummy Lord

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

Mystic Carrion

Shadow

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

Skeleton

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 Bludgeoning damage and can be created through various magic spells.

Skeletons in Baldur's Gate 3

Undead Dragon

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

Ansur

Vampire Spawn

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

Wraith

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 which snuffs out nearby light sources and can drain the life of their enemies.

Wraiths in Baldur's Gate 3

Daddy
Mummy

Zombie

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

Related items

Arrow of Undead Slaying - double damage against undead creatures
Doom Hammer - prevents healing and applies disadvantage to their attacks
Hammer of the Just - additional slashing damage against undead
Holy Water - Deals 3d6Radiant damage against undead
Planeslayer Flail (inaccessible) - bonus damage and attack roll against undead
Sword of Life Stealing - target takes additional Necrotic damage unless it is undead
The Blood of Lathander - blinds nearby undead creatures
The Long Arm of the Gur - bonus to attack and damage against undead
The Oak Father's Embrace - deals Radiant damage to undead creatures that hit the wearer
The Sacred Star - turns undead creatures if they fail a saving throw.
The Undead Bane - deals additional damage and applies Bane
Veil of the Morning - undead have disadvantage against the wearer, and the wearer has advantage against saving throws from undead creatures

v t e Creatures
Humanoids	Aasimar Bugbear Changeling Gnoll Goblin Hobgoblin Kobold Kuo-toa Meazel Sahuagin Shadar-Kai Werewolf
Aberrations	Cloaker Countermeasure Intellect Devourer Mind Flayer Spectator Spectral Flumph Tentacle
Beasts	Alioramus Bat Bear Bird Raven Boar Cat Crab Deep Rothé Displacer Beast Dog Frog Giant Eagle Hyena Owlbear Rat Spider Squirrel Wolf
Celestials	Deva Hollyphant Moonlight Sliver
Constructs	Adamantine Golem Animated Armour Arcane Turret Automaton Guardian of Faith Flesh Golem Manifestation of Tyranny Ptaris' Mental Image Scrying Eye Steel Watcher
Dragons	Red Dragon Undead Dragon
Elementals	Azer Djinni Elemental Air Earth Fire Grease Lava Mud Water Flaming Sphere Hell Sphere Mephit Grease Ice Magma Mud Myrmidon
Fey	Blink Dog Dryad Hag Meenlock Pixie Redcap
Fiends	Cambion Vengeful Hellsboar Vengeful Imp Vengeful Incubus/Succubus Merregon Orthon
Giants	Ogre
Monstrosities	Bulette Ettercap Doppelganger Drider Gremishka Harpy Hook Horror Minotaur Mimic Phase spider Shadow mastiff Slayer Worg
Oozes	Fetid Ooze Greaseball Ochre Jelly
Plants	Blight Myconid Shadow Creeper Shambling Mound Wood Woad
Undead	Crawling Claw Dark Justiciar Death Knight Death Shepherd Flying Ghoul Ghast Ghost Ghoul Grim Visage Mummy Mummy Lord Poltergeist Shadow Skeleton Vampire spawn Wraith Zombie

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