While Miltiades possessed an enchanted sword and armor, he did not have the ability to cast the magical spells mentioned above. He was eventually restored to life by Tyr after helping the heroes destroy a pool of darkness and a pool of twilight. Miltiades retained his sense of good and fought by the sides of good heroes, helping to defeat the forces of Bane. A paladin by the name of Miltiades was condemned by Tyr to exist as an undead knight for using dishonorable assassination tactics to kill his enemy Zarl. Death Knights in the Forgotten RealmsĪ similar type of undead warrior was seen in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. The two Lord Soth novels for Ravenloft and the Dragonlance novel make Death Knights one of only five standard D&D creatures ( Dragons, Vampires Elves/ Drow, Liches, and Death Knights) to be the subject of a novel. Soth is the most published Death Knight and is featured in all three editions of the Dungeons & Dragons game, the New York Times best selling Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends Trilogies, other novels of the Dragonlance mythos and outside of it, and various computer games. He is attended by the skeleton warriors of his fallen troops and a cadre of ghostly banshees. Lord Soth was cursed after he murdered his wife and child and failed to prevent the Cataclysm. The most famous of all death knights is Lord Soth, a disgraced Knight of Solamnia, from the Dragonlance and Ravenloft campaign settings. Given the nature of their creation they are also often in the service of some demon lord or god of evil.ĭeath knights in various campaign settings Death Knights in Dragonlance Death knights often ride nightmares into battle. Though death knights rarely work with their own kind, they often have a variety of undead servants such as skeleton warriors, liches, and banshees. They are fond of wearing flowing capes to mark them as figures of importance.
Death knights were powerful people in life, and so they often wear expensive or magic clothing and armor. The voice of a death knight is chilling, seeming to echo from deep within. The face is a blackened skull with patches of rotting flesh with two pinpoints of orange light in the eye sockets. A death knight's physical form is that of its decayed body. The original Dungeons and Dragons Fiend Folio indicates that death knights are "lich-like". They often choose fortified lairs such as old castles and towers. In Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition (and Version 3.5), a death knight has an aura of fear that will rout groups of low level enemies, can channel powerful negative energy with a touch, and the ability to project explosions of fire and unholy energy.ĭeath knights are rare but may be found in any environment. Paladins who become death knights are subject to the same modifications as are presented for the blackguard in Chapter 2 of the Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide.
These evil undead warriors are most commonly raised from the ranks of blackguards, fighters, rangers, and barbarians, but a paladin who falls from grace near the moment of death may also become a death knight.
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