Creature Focus - Zombie, Bayou

    Sometimes areas of the bayou are so warped by the presence of a powerful bokor that it becomes tainted with necromantic energies and starts to arbitrarily raise those humanoids that die in the waters as zombies. Plant life grows onto, within and as a part of these undead creatures, and they constantly drip fetid, brackish water. Their rotting skin takes on a sickening, swampy green pallor, and their eyes glow red.

    The worst part about these zombies is that they can make the bayou itself come alive, entangling their victims in vines and other plants. Their appearance also helps them to hide much more effectively, and they will frequently lay under the shallow water, within clumps of plants or in the hollows around the roots of a bald cypress and wait for prey to come near before attacking.

    Although raised as undead by the bayou itself, these zombies are treated as normal zombies when it comes to turning and control. They are also vulnerable to spells that affect plants, as while they are undead they are also part plant as well. As they are created by the bayou itself, these kinds of zombies can not normally be created by bokor or necromancers unless they are multiclassed with a druid class.