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[[folder:In General]]
!!Geb
A state ruled by and named after the powerful necromancer rival of Nex.
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* {{Egopolis}}: Geb, its founder, named his nation after himself.
* TheNecrocracy: Type III. In Geb's kingdom, undead are often in positions of power, but the living can and sometimes do rise to the same level. There is a whole underclass of human chattel who are bred only as food for vampires and ghouls, however.
* PollutedWasteland: A magical variant. Nothing grows around Mechitar ever since Geb drained the life from the and to fuel one of his attacks on Nex.
* TheTrainsRunOnTime: Geb is a brutal place to live, but an efficient one. It helps that a large portion of the population has no need for sleep, allowing them to work non-stop, or food, which cuts down on the need for certain industries.
* UndeadLaborers: Mindless undead like skeletons and zombies do much of the low-level work in Geb.
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[[folder:Witch-King Geb]]
!!Geb
->'''Race:''' Human (Garundi), later ghost
->'''Class:''' Wizard (necromancer)
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Nearly 5,000 years ago Geb was exiled from Osirion, only to conquer a chunk of that same nation through powerful magic and an army of the undead. Geb ruled largely in peace afterwards, until expansion attempts by the archmage Nex sparked one of the most infamous rivalries known to Golarion. Their feud lasted centuries until Geb supposedly slew his rival, though the uncertainty of his success caused him to spiral into paranoia and eventually take his own life.
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* {{Archenemy}}: Of Nex.
* AuthorityInNameOnly: Though he supposedly rules Geb, he largely leaves the responsibility to Arazni nowadays. Averted in the transition to Second Edition. As Arazni ascended to true divinity again, he finally received some competition in the form of the Whispering Tyrant. Not only that, there are signs that his archenemy Nex is to return. As a consequence, he is more driven than he has been for millenia.
* DrivenToSuicide: He committed ritual suicide out of distress that he wasn't able to kill Nex and fear that he might return.
* EvilIsPetty: Is it ever! Any time someone opposes him and fails he's not just content with killing them, but typically turns them undead or inflicts some other FateWorseThanDeath on them. The [[MoralEventHorizon worst example of this]] would probably be when the Knights Of Ozem tried to destroy him once and for all. Not only did he turn them all into undead, he also forced them to bring him the corpse of the paladin Arazni (who was dead at the time and had nothing to do with it) to him so he could turn her into an evil lich under his control.
* GhostlyGoals: See UnfinishedBusiness below.
%%* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath
* HauntedCastle: His palace, insofar as it's haunted by himself.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: After his death, his lingering anger, necromantic power, and desires unfulfilled in life saw his spirit return as a ghost.
* ProperlyParanoid: The idea that Nex may yet live haunts Geb. It's an entirely justified dread, as Nex survived the supposedly final attack by retreating into a demiplane.
%%* ScaryBlackMan
* SealedEvilInACan: He's trapped in Geb, which obviously puts a damper on trying to seek out proof of Nex's fate.
* SorcerousOverlord: He ruled over Geb with an iron fist, even using magic to his own ends, in life and may have maintained some of his power in death.
* UnfinishedBusiness: Geb's spirit is bound to Golarion until he can be convinced that his ancient archnemesis, Nex, is well and truly dead.
* UnreliableNarrator: As the writer of the in-universe Book of the Dead, the lore sections of the rulebook of the same name are narrated by him. As one of Golarion's most infamous necromancers, while he can be trusted to reliably detail the traits of the undead, when he argues in favor of necromancy the result seems trustworthy until you think about what he's ''not'' saying. For instance, he notes that Pharasma is opposed to creating undead because it acts as a negative energy sink, preventing negative energy from being used for its natural purpose of destruction. On a cosmic level, this accelerates the rate at which the Maelstrom consumes the universe, as without negative energy to break up the Outer Planes into quintessence the matter of these planes cannot be recycled. Geb simply says that Pharasma is wrong to denounce creating undead without refuting this, exposing a hole in his argument.
* VillainHasAPoint: While Geb is horribly biased when it comes to the potential for necromancy to be used as a force for order, his reasoning for decrying the Voices of the Spire is solid.
--> From Nex, they strike against Geb’s undead citizenry, but their blatant acts of terrorism now have my full attention. These puerile fools believe it’s a moral imperative to target my feeding facilities and free the mortals within. Being short-lived mortals themselves, they fail to realize that a stable and orderly supply chain is much safer for everyone in the long term than wandering hordes of hungry and erratic undead.
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!!Mechitar
[[folder:Arazni the Harlot Queen]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arazni.png]]
->'''[[NeutralEvil NE]] female human lich wizard 20/marshal 8, CR 26/MR 8'''

Once a demigod and herald of Aroden, Arazni was slain by the Whispering Tyrant. Less than a century later, Geb raised her as a lich and she now rules Geb in his stead.
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* AntiVillain: In Second Edition she's escaped Geb and become a full fledged god. While she's still NeutralEvil she allows ChaoticGood followers, suggesting she's becoming less evil and may eventually pull a HeelFaceTurn
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She met her death when she fought the Whispering Tyrant, who [[BreakTheHaughty humiliated her]] before torturing her to death and throwing her broken body into the ranks of her followers to demoralize them.
* DesecratingTheDead: After the Knights of Ozem tried and failed to attack Geb, the necromancer stole and animated her body as an insult to his would-be vanquishers.
* DespairEventHorizon: Crossed it a long time ago.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Her first edition illustrations show her barefoot. This is dropped by the second edition, where she's usually shown wearing boots.
* {{Expy}}: She seems pretty obviously inspired by [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Sylvanas Windrunner]], being a formerly heroic character who was turned undead against her will and now rules as an evil queen, but is still technically a slave. In 2e she has managed to escape Geb's control, however.
* FallenHero: She started as a ''paladin'' of Aroden, and was turned into an evil lich/demigoddess against her will. Whether or not she's [[HeelFaceTurn past redemption]] is up to the DM.
* HeartTrauma: Four of her organs were removed and placed in funerary jars. They're currently in the hands of the Knights of Ozem, her one-time disciples, and she very much wants them back.
* IHatePastMe: She views her former paladin self as having been a self-righteous idiot.
* MagicStaff: She owns a unique ''staff of the magi'' that uses its wielders caster level for saves and allows mythic power to amp up its spells.
* MoralityPet: She comes to see the Heroes in ''Tyrant's Grasp'' as this.
* NamedWeapons: ''Harlot's Kiss'', a magic dagger from her days as a herald.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: Lichdom usually requires a unique process for each individual, but Geb was not only able to make Arazni into a lich sixty-seven years after she died but also managed to bring her soul back and bind it into her body.
* PetTheDog: She saves the heroes in ''Tyrant's Grasp'' in large part because she's grown rather fond of them.
* PlatonicLifePartners: She was Aroden's herald and pretty much his bestie, [[WithFriendsLikeThese not that it kept him from (literally) leaving her to rot after Geb made her his undead slave]].
* RedBaron: She was known as the Scarlet Crusader in life.
* StopWorshippingMe: In 2nd Edition, she actively despises the majority of her worshippers. Many still revere her in her aspect as the lich-queen of Geb, a role she was magically forced into and which she perceives as a profound and obscene violation. The rest, who took to worshipping her after she broke free from this role, she hates chiefly out of resentment at only coming to her now that she's powerful once more after ignoring her while she suffered, and because she despises the idea that what she has become is worthy of veneration. The very few followers she grudgingly accepts are others who were themselves betrayed, broken or otherwise stripped of their agency in the world, and who view her less as a figure to revere and more as someone whose ugly fate they share.
* TokenEvilTeammate: In books two through 4 of the ''Tyrant's Grasp'' path, [[spoiler:she helps out the [=PCs=] as they both hate [[BigBad Tar-Baphon]]. She acts more as a quest giver than an actual party member, though]]
* WasOnceAMan: She was a noble warrior before Geb turned her into a lich.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: She was originally a {{Paladin}}, but was killed horribly the The Whispering Tyrant. Later, Geb turned her into his undead lich slave out of spite.Aroden [[WhatTheHellHero didn't bother to rescue her,]] and, eventually, she [[FaceHeelTurn became an evil demigod.]]
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[[folder:The Blood Lords]]
The aristocracy of Geb.
!!In General
* AristocratsAreEvil: Becoming a Blood Lord requires one to be undead, or at the very least steeped in necromancy, a process most good-aligned beings avoid.
* EvilVersusEvil: They commonly vie for power and position, though codes of conduct prevent them from outright conflict.
* TheNecrocracy: Though sufficiently powerful necromancers or clerics of certain gods can become Blood Lords, rising through the ranks requires one to dispense of their pulse.
* VampireMonarch: Quite a few of them are vampires.

!!Mirgona Zede
->'''NE female human necromancer 15'''

!!Hyrune Loxenna
->'''CE male half-elf vampire witch 12'''

!!Quarnim Ix
->'''NE male devourer oracle 8'''

!!Chancellor Kemnebi
->'''LE male vampire necromancer 12'''
The leader of the Ebon Mausoleum.

!!Vice-Chancellor Vikroti Stroh
->'''LE female human lich necromancer 11'''
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[[folder:Rinnella Brenon]]
->'''NE daughter of Urgathoa summoner 9/hierophant 1)'''
The mistress of the Cathedral of Epiphenomena.
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* EnigmaticMinion: A creature much like a nightwalker is always with her, though its true nature and that of their arrangement is unknown.
* HighPriest: She leads what may be the single largest congregation of Urgathoa on Golarion.
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[[folder:Vernetta Xenopha ]]
->'''LE female mohrg fighter 12'''
The overseer of Ossum Harbor.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: She's a CR 20 thanks to class levels on top of her base CR and she's led the defense against several major naval attacks.
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[[folder:Khmet Khanrah]]
->'''LN male human ghost ranger 12'''
The ghost of the Osirian governor who once ruled the land that became Geb.
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* DeadlyGas: His domain is filled with gas that causes hallucinations and drives victims mad. Even undead aren't immune to its effects.
* GhostlyGoals: He wants to see Geb fall, both the nation and the necromancer.
* LaResistance: Since he can't leave his old home he relies on trying to enlist others to see Geb toppled.
* SealedEvilInACan: For a given value of evil, he can't leave the mansion he once lived in.
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[[folder:The Bellator Mortus]]
A small army dedicated to the defense of Mechitar.
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* EliteMooks: More powerful undead serve as this, as well as any with class levels.
* FleshGolem: They make use of golems made from once-living beings, particularly bone, flesh, and carrion golems.
* {{Necromancer}}: Many of the higher ranking members can raise the dead as more soldiers.
* UndeadMooks: The rank and file of the organization.
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!!Other
[[folder:The Petrified Maidens]]
->'''[[NeutralEvil NE]] Medium undead, CR 6'''
An army of warrior women who tried to invade Geb. The necromancer struck them down with a curse not seen before or since, turning their bodies to stone and binding their unrestful spirits to their petrified forms.
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* BodyHorror: Blood leaks from the cracks in their stone bodies, indicating the transformation wasn't complete.
* LiteralDisarming: The only way to actually disarm any of them, as their weapons have fused to their hands.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: When destroyed their bodies will reconstruct themselves, though it can take years if they're reduced to rubble.
* TakenForGranite: They can petrify others who are affected by their slam attack.
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