Morgan's Iron Kingdoms Gearbooks: FMF Grimoire

Hidden Runes [Thrall Upgrade]

Rune Points : +1

Special Rules: Any thrall runes inscribed on the thrall are undetectable to anyone except for their creator. Characters who can ignore stealth and concealment can also see the hidden runes.

Morgan’s Notes: While this thrall upgrade can be useful to amass a large force of thralls over time by giving the necromancer the ability to just hide their thralls in crypts and pass them off as regular corpses, its usefulness in larger population centres is actually limited, as chances are that there is at least one priest of Morrow around who knows the True Sight spell (see IKRPG, p. 245), which can easily penetrate this upgrade’s concealment. Still, even such priests cannot be everywhere at once, and opening graves for routine inspections is definitely not a done thing without due cause…

A further complication is that this upgrade is usually only useful on thralls of at least middling intelligence, as the simplest risen may simply fail to hold still when they are disturbed out of a combination of their innate malice towards the living and sheer stupidity…

Comments welcome, as usual.