Animal skeleton

Animal skeleton was a general term for skeletons created from the corpses of small to large-sized vertebrate animals.
==Abilities==
Much like other skeletons, these creatures were immune to charm, hold, sleep effects and death magic. They were vulnerable to holy water and turned by clerics like any standard skeleton.
==Variations==
;Revived fossil: A skeleton created from the remains of an animal that had been preserved in a petrified state.
;Warhorse skeleton: An animal skeleton created from the corpse of a warhorse.
==Notable Animal Skeletons==
* Toysmiths, a toy store in the city of Ravens Bluff, kept a skeletal war dog as a guard animal. Rather than having its bones exposed, the store's owners kept the animal skeleton stuffed inside of a plush dog.
==Ecology==
Animal skeletons were typically created by means of the animate dead spell to serve as minor guardians, though skeletons could also be created with spell animate dead animals and could be made from the bones of beasts of burden with the undead mount spell. Additionally, around one to twelve animal skeletons could be conjured by undead summoning I.
Members of the Church of Malar annually animated the skeletons of great stags and other beasts on the night of Eleasis 9 for a festival known as the Bone Dance.
==History==
Around 1370 DR, a number of whale skeletons roamed near Thordentor, defending an undersea lair belonging to the Twisted Rune.
==Appendix==
===Appearances===
===Gallery===
POD - skeletal animal.gif|An animal skeleton lunges to attack in Pools of Darkness.
Displacer beast skeleton.png|A displacer beast skeleton terrorizes a dwarf.
Skeletal riding horse.jpg|A riding horse skeleton that is ready to gallop once more.
Undeath sammaster.png|A group of humanoid skeletons ride into battle upon horse skeletons.
Undead mount ddo.jpg|A pair of skeletal horses.
===References===
Category:Undead
Category:Skeletons