| Hit Dice: | 3d12 (19 hp) |
| Initiative: | +2 |
| Speed: | Fly 30 ft. (8 squares) (good) |
| Armor Class: | 13 (+2 Dex, +1 deflection), touch 13, flat-footed 11 |
| Base Attack/Grapple: | +1/— |
| Attack: | Incorporeal touch +3 melee (1d6 Wis) |
| Full Attack: | Incorporeal touch +3 melee (1d6 Wis) |
| Space/Reach: | 5 ft./5 ft. |
| Special Attacks: | Confer negative level, Wisdom damage |
| Special Qualities: | Darkvision 60 ft., incorporeal traits, inescapable craving, undead traits |
| Saves: | Fort +1, Ref +3, Will +4 |
| Abilities: | Str —, Dex 15, Con —, Int 7, Wis 13, Cha 12 |
| Skills: | Hide +8, Listen +7, Search +4, Spot +7 |
| Feats: | Alertness, Combat Reflexes |
| Environment: | Any |
| Organization: | Solitary, pair, gang (3–5), or cluster (6–11) |
| Challenge Rating: | 3 |
| Treasure: | None |
| Alignment: | Always chaotic evil |
| Advancement: | 4–9 HD (Medium) ♊ |
| Level Adjustment: | — |
The wavering silhouette of a humanoid materializes. Its reaching, half-seen hand threatens to snag your soul.
A murk is an incorporeal, free-roaming blot of undead essence with a nugget of sentience. It exists to spread gloom and, when possible, drain life energy.
Most murks are no more than 6 feet tall. They cannot speak intelligibly.
Murks haunt tombs, crypts, cemeteries, and other places where undead roam.
Confer Negative Level (Su): Any humanoid reduced to Wisdom 0 by a murk (see Wisdom damage, below) gains one negative level. The DC is 12 for the Fortitude save to remove a negative level. The save DC is Charisma-based. When a murk bestows a negative level on a victim, it gains 5 temporary hit points (10 on a critical hit). These temporary hit points last for up to 1 hour.
A murk that bestows a negative level on a 1 HD creature kills the creature, which becomes a murk under the control of its killer within 1d4 rounds.
Inescapable Craving: A murk has an inescapable craving (see Undead Metabolism) for Wisdom and life force, which it satisfies by using its Wisdom damage and confer negative level abilities.
Wisdom Damage (Su): The touch of a murk deals 1d6 points of Wisdom damage to a living foe.
Source: Libris Mortis, page 112.