The Hollowed Host
Death is not the end. It is the beginning.
Lore
From the fallen kingdom of Moranthia rise the Hollowed Host — scholars who conquered death itself. Led by necromancers and death knights, they raise armies from the battlefield's fallen. Skeletons march in endless ranks, vampires hunt the living, and bone dragons darken the skies. Every enemy slain becomes another soldier in their inexorable advance.
Sub-Factions & Player Colors
While every warband recognizes the overarching sigil of The Hollowed Host, regional kingdoms, ancient holds, and frontier marches march under their own heraldic colors and ancestral standards. In multiplayer matches, each player color represents a distinct historical sub-faction with unique lore and doctrine.
Primary racial banner displayed across battlefield command centers and fortress ramparts.
Frost-Grave Legion
Entombed in the ice sheets of Niflheim for thousands of years, the Frost-Grave Legion was awakened when glacial tremors cracked open their subterranean mausoleums. The frost preserves their frozen bones, rendering them brittle yet sharp as broken glass. Their aura lowers surrounding temperatures into a biting freeze. Hostile living units moving near Frost-Grave legions suffer severe movement and attack speed slows, their breath freezing in their chests as skeletal warriors advance without a sound.
Blood-Thirst Dynasty of Castle Carmilla
Perched on a sheer cliff over the Black Forest, Castle Carmilla is the baroque palace of the immortal vampire nobility. While lesser undead are mindless shamblers, the vampires of the Crimson Court are cultured aristocrats who dine on vintage blood from crystal goblets. In combat, their elite Vampire nobles are terrifyingly lethal. Each strike of their curved rapier siphons vitality directly from their victims, healing their own wounds instantly and allowing them to fight surrounded by dozens of enemies without succumbing.
Drowned Souls of the Ghost Fleet
Beneath the crashing waves of the Shipwreck Coast lie centuries of sunken galleons, merchant clippers, and drowned sailors. Guided by a phantom green lighthouse on a cursed reef, the Ghost Fleet rises from the seabed to claim the living. Their drowned corpses march effortlessly out of deep ocean channels, completely ignoring water obstacles. Wrapped in tattered seaweed and barnacles, their waterlogged bodies absorb immense blunt trauma, dragging terrified shoreline defenders down into the depths.
Necro-Lords of the Violet Spire
The Necro-Lords govern from the towering obsidian needle of Mor-Vhol, where the sky is permanently choked by purple soul smoke. These ancient liches have spent centuries studying the boundary between life and death, perfecting the art of reanimating fallen corpses. Their Raise Dead spell is the signature engine of the faction. Every enemy soldier slain on the battlefield is immediately resurrected as an obedient skeleton warrior, turning costly enemy victories into overwhelming undead advantages as battles rage on.
Mummy-Kings of the Golden Crypts
Beneath the blistering southern sands lie the monumental stone pyramids of the ancient god-kings. Embalmed in sacred natron salts and wrapped in linen inscribed with gold hieroglyphs, these ancient rulers sleep in granite sarcophagi surrounded by mountain vaults of treasure. Their mummy guardians are wrapped in protective wards that deflect blade strikes. When awakened, their priests summon blinding locust swarms and suffocating sandstorms that choke living lungs while the dead advance in inexorable silence.
Ashen Legion of the Brimstone Tomb
The Pyre-Keep was constructed atop the smoldering ash fields where heretics and dark cultists were historically burned at the stake. Instead of extinguishing their souls, the volcanic sulfur ignited an unholy inner flame that binds charred bones together with molten fire. Their skeleton archers fire flaming bone arrows that ignite defensive walls on impact. Even worse, when their charred minions are destroyed in close combat, their corpses explode in concussive bursts of sulfurous shrapnel.
Plague-Blight Host of the Rotten Hollow
The Rotten Hollow is a squelching subterranean swamp of decomposing matter, toxic runoff, and noxious vapors. The Corpse Gardeners cultivate festering bacteria and fungal growths inside the hollowed bellies of rotting corpses, seeing rot as the purest form of evolution. Their presence spreads Draining Blight—a lethal terrain contamination that saps 1 HP per second from all living enemy units standing within range. Armies attempting to besiege the Plague-Blight Host slowly rot alive before reaching the gatehouse.
Crypt-Diggers of the Forgotten Ossuary
The Crypt-Diggers operate the massive bone charnel vaults where millions of skeletal fragments are sorted, articulated, and reinforced. They accompany undead campaigns with creaking Corpse Wagons, sweeping battlefield casualties into sorting bins like grain harvests. By fitting their skeletons with reinforced bone armor and spare limb linkages, the Crypt-Diggers increase the durability of disposable fodder units, ensuring that no battle casualty is wasted.
Phantom Host of the Bleached Shroud
Built from bleached white marble, the Mausoleum of Nim-Khar holds the phantoms of ancient nobles whose souls refused to depart to the afterlife. Unanchored from mortal flesh, these spectral wraiths drift between dimensions without physical weight. In combat, the Bleached Shroud is virtually immune to ordinary physical weapons; swords and arrows pass harmlessly through their misty robes. Their Wailing Banshees unleash ear-piercing sonic screams that shatter enemy morale and cause enemy hearts to burst from sheer fright.
Grave-Knight Order of the Ashen Gate
The Ashen Gate is the iron fortress that guards the grand portal to the underworld. Stationed here is the dreaded Order of the Grave-Knights—fallen champions of mortal races raised by ancient necromancy to serve as eternal lords of slaughter. Mounted atop skeletal warhorses with glowing red eye sockets, the Grave-Knights form an unstoppable shock cavalry wedge. Clad in black spiked plate that absorbs spells like water into dry earth, their runed blades cleave through shields and riders alike.
Heroes
Heroes level up in battle, choosing one of two abilities at levels 3, 6 and 9.
Morvanna the Undying
Lantern-Bearing Lich Queen
Harvest of the Spire
Open the lantern: every corpse within 12 tiles rises as a skeleton warrior for 25s (max 8 live), violet flame streaming from each body to the lantern.
Malakor, the Iron Phylactery: her soul's prison, named for the first disciple she sacrificed. If it breaks she dies; she carries it anyway.
- Morvanna the Undying, Lantern-Bearing Lich Queen. Malakor, the Iron Phylactery: her soul's prison, named for the first disciple she sacrificed. If it breaks she dies; she carries it anyway.
- Grand Vizier Ankhara, Embalmer of the Dead. The Crook and Flail of Amun-Rha: the crook gathers the faithful dead; the flail scatters grave-robbers.
- Admiral Van-Diemen, the Drowned, Anchor-Bearing Admiral. The Fouled Anchor: the anchor of his flagship, the Wheel of Mor-Vhol, wound in its own chain. It still drags him to the seabed every night.
- Blight-Lung, the Flesh Titan, Garden-Backed Flesh Titan. The Rot Garden: moss, mushrooms and corpse-lilies planted on his back by the Corpse Gardeners, fenced with stakes. Everything that grows there is poisonous, and he waters it with his own bile.
- Count Aurel Vrykolas, Chalice-Bearing Vampire. The Carmilla Chalice: the dynasty's golden goblet, never empty. He drinks from it mid-duel.
- Inquisitor Shadow-Bane, Cage-Helmed Penitent. The Penitent's Cage: the iron cage helm he locked on himself to purge his sins, padlocked with the key nowhere on him. The flail is his scourge, and the chain round his neck is what he lends to others.
- Vael-Kor, the Rime-Wolf, Frozen Werewolf. The Frost-Gem Hand: a skeletal hand clutching a sapphire, sewn into his chest. It holds the curse in and his heart out.
- Old Mor-Dred, the Ossuary Colossus, Tombstone Bone Giant. The Stone of the Forgotten: a tombstone with every name scratched out. The Crypt-Diggers carve each fallen enemy's name on it before erasing it too.
- Vargath, Marshal of the Ashen Gate, Bone-Bull Grave-Knight. A fallen paladin turned merciless Death Knight, clad in frost-rimed plate armor and wielding a soul-devouring runeblade that raises fallen foes as thralls.
- Seraphine of the Pyre, Brazier Archer. A tragic, vengeful banshee ranger whose piercing wails shatter mortal resolve, loosing spectral frost-arrows that pierce flesh and spirit alike.
Hero Progression
Heroes are the heart of your warband. They grow stronger every battle, learn signature abilities, equip legendary loot, and can even be taken under your direct command.
Earn XP & Level Up
Choose Your Path
Equip Legendary Gear
Outfit heroes across 8 equipment slots with gear from your faction blacksmith and the neutral Troll-Vault — plus tomes for permanent stat boosts.
Take Direct Control
Army Roster
20 units across ground, air, sea, and trade. Master every warrior to dominate the battlefield.
⚔️Ground Forces(10)
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200100100👑The King(1)
Regicide only. Your monarch stands in your base from the first second of the match, cannot be trained, replaced or rebuilt, and carries no weapon. Kill the enemy King and the match is over — lose yours and so are you.
Buildings
Key structures for the Undead faction. Build your economy, train your army, and fortify your defenses.
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250100100⚓Naval & Oil(5)
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200020001500Hero Gear
Equip your heroes with gear forged at the Undead blacksmith and consecrated at its altar. Faction-exclusive pieces are found nowhere else, while the shared arsenal is stocked at other factions' shops too.
Faction-Exclusive(6)
+3 armor, +20 spell power, 8% lifesteal.
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+18 spell power, +1 mana regeneration per second, 5% lifesteal.
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+5 attack damage, 5% lifesteal. Melee heroes only.
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+12 spell power, +0.5 mana regeneration per second.
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+2 armor, 5% lifesteal.
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+6 spell power, +0.4 HP regeneration per second.
195Shared Arsenal(40)
+2 armor, +10% crit, 5% lifesteal, +1 mana regeneration.
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+5 armor, reflects 3 melee damage, +1 HP regeneration per second.
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+6 armor, +2 HP regeneration per second, 5% lifesteal.
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+6 attack damage, +10% critical strike chance. Melee heroes only.
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+5 attack damage, +15% attack speed. Ranged heroes only.
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+25 spell power, +1 mana regeneration per second. Caster heroes only.
700
+5 armor, +1 HP regeneration per second.
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+4 attack damage, +2 armor.
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+10% critical strike chance, 5% lifesteal.
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+3 armor. Reflects 2 damage to melee attackers.
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Sound the horn: nearby allies gain +3 damage for 10 seconds. 30s cooldown.
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Nearby allies regenerate +0.75 HP per second.
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+0.25 mana regen. Nearby allied casters gain +0.5 mana regeneration per second.
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+15 spell power, +0.5 mana regeneration per second.
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+3 armor, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+15% attack speed. Ranged heroes only.
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+1 armor. Nearby allies reflect 2 damage to melee attackers.
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+2 armor, +0.3 movement speed.
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+1 HP regeneration per second, +1 armor.
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+0.75 mana regeneration per second.
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+0.7 movement speed, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+2 armor. Reflects 1 damage to melee attackers.
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+0.8 movement speed.
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Permanently increases the hero's attack damage by 2.
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Permanently increases the hero's armor by 1 and attack speed by 5%.
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Permanently increases the hero's maximum mana by 15 and mana regeneration.
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+0.35 movement speed, +1 armor.
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Permanently adds 3 backpack slots, up to 30.
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+3 attack damage. Melee heroes only.
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+3 attack damage. Ranged heroes only.
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+10 spell power. Caster heroes only.
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+1 armor, +0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+2 attack damage.
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+2 armor.
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+0.55 movement speed.
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+0.4 movement speed.
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+0.25 mana regeneration per second.
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+1 armor.
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+0.5 HP regeneration per second.
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+1 armor.
75From the Custom Games
The Undead race their own cars in Wheels of Stone and build their own cities in Cities of Stone. Every prop here also stands in the Forge for your own maps.
Wheels of Stone
About Wheels of Stone →Race cars(2)
Long, black and quiet. Rides through anything as a ghost.
Ghost Ride: Turns to mist: nothing can hit you, and mud does not slow you.
A ribcage on four wheels. Light, quick and happy in the rough.
Skull Lob: Throws a boulder far up the road. It bursts where it lands.
