Cardinal Rufus wears ruby red metallic armor and is quite the ladies man. Though undead, he has a human form over his skeletal form, allowing him to blend in with humans and interact well. He spends much of his time in the wine cellars beneath the monastary. He hates animals of all kinds as well as theives. He was once a town guard for Innlandstadt, thus explaining why his hatred for theives. Rufus fights with a bastard sword, but prefers bow attacks where possible.

He is a master of poisons and uses them with all bow attacks, either petrification, damage, sleep, or death. He has antidotes to each of these as well. He is a master of acids as well. He fights as often as not with a sprayer of his own device, which has a range of 40' and does 2d12 damage if hit.

He can make smoke bombs out of pepper and oil that make breathing all but impossible for any within its area of effect. As a semi-undead, he need not breathe for up to 10 minutes, making this an effective incapacitating weapon. Those failing a save, which must be made once per minute, will fight at -4 on all attacks, with movement at 1/2 normal.