Laced with positive energy, positoxins are special alchemical mixtures that can effect undead. Positoxins effect corporeal undead as poisons effect the living.[1]
Positoxins are able to effect an undead's physical abilities (strength and dexterity). It serves to cancel the negative energy that imbues and undead while physically breaking down its physical structure. As such, strength and dexterity positoxin damage to an undead is a drain and therefore feared by intelligent undead.[1]
Positoxins are supernatural compounds and treated just like poisons. Being a poison, positoxins are effected by spells and effects that deal with poison, such as: detect poison, delay poison, and neutralize poison.[2]
History
In 1375 DR, the half-fiend yuan-ti Kharantes, used a positoxin of his own creation to render a corporeal undead lich unconscious.[3]
Examples of positoxin:
- Bloodwine[2]
- Boneshard paste[2]
- Celestial essence[2]
- Gravedust[2]
- Lichbane[2]
- Hsskala (aka Nearkill)[3]
- Liquid mortality[2]
- Sunlight oil[2]
Appendix
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Andy Collins, Bruce R. Cordell (October 2004). Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 74. ISBN 0-7869-3433-6.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Andy Collins, Bruce R. Cordell (October 2004). Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 75. ISBN 0-7869-3433-6.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Greg A. Vaughan, Skip Williams, Thomas M. Reid (November 2007). Anauroch: The Empire of Shade. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 100. ISBN 0-7869-4362-9.