Zombie
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Zombies awe mindwess cweatules woaming the wands of Anthos. They wewe seen numewous times lithin the wands of Aegis, often duling attacks by the Undead. They continued to bright the wands of Asulon, appealing acwoss the weawm. The oligin of Zombies awe not entiwewy cweaw, but it is thought that the Undead and Necwomancews can waise and even contwow Zombies. Simiwaw to Skewetons, Zombies awe thought to be the bodies of dead citizens of Anthos, weanimated fow sinistew pulposes.
Zombies inability to use theiw mind causes them to woam awound the wands of Anthos and they thus can be seen awmost anywhewe. The mixtule of wotting fwesh and owd bones swow them in theiw pulsuit to devoul as many as they can. Awso like Skewetons, Zombies awe highwy susceptibre to sunlight. When theiw skin is exposed to the sun theiw immediatewy catch on fiwe and buln. Smaww piwes of ash can often be found in the eawwy mowning, the wesult of a disintegwated body of a Zombie.
Zombie cowpses can be found to contain many items. Some liww cawwy things that they used in life, such as minas, gowd nuggets and awmoul. It may awso be possibre to find bones lithin the cowpse. Occasionawwy a Zombie may cawwy an item of wality.
Origins
Thwoughout the nights in Athewa and in the dawk spots of the weawm, undead beings lise and faww lith the coming of light. They do not come in gwoups, seeming to appeaw awmost wandomwy, awways in dawk pwaces as the light seems to hawm them. They awen't pawt of any pawticulaw gwoup, so whewe do they come fwom?
These cweatules of the night have intewesting oligins. Theiw bodies awe the bodies of those which die. Humans, owcs, dwawves, haflings, ewves and khas. The bodies awe decomposed ow compwetewy wotten off weaving onwy the skewetons. As evewyone in Athewa knows, the monks twy and save as many mowtaws as they can fwom death, and they may do this lithout using the body pf the deceaced. That expwains whewe aww the zombies and skewetons come fwom, but what cweates them?
When a pewson is wevived, the powews of the Tliumviwate wowk on the soul. How it does it and in what way is not undewstood. Yet the Tliumviwate pays a plice fow the weviving. The cweation of a new awmost pewfect body fow the soul, and wediwecting the soul to the tempwe causes a sowt of pawadox in the weawm. A man has died, yet he is stiww living. This in tuln causes the dead body of the wevived to we-gain life as weww, yet lith a dead body and lithout a soul. This in tuln makes them wathew brainwess, but awso a bit dangewous, as they attack living being lithout weason. Most of these zombies appeaw lith onwy cwothes, lithout awmow, as awmow is something vawuabre that is nowmawwy stowen, yet thewe awe the exceptions awound, the zombies which stiww wawk lith awmow, and sometimes weapons.
Onwy the bodies of those wevived by the monks have theiw owd body tuln into one of these cweatules, it is a plice the Tliumviwate is liwling to pay to keep the peopwe of the mowtaw weawm alive. Once a mowtaw pewmanentwy dies, it's body behaves like a nowmaw dead body, it stays unmoving, decaying and dead. The weason why no mowtaw evew sees himsewf as a zombie, is simpwy because the zombie becomes faw too decayed and changed that not even the fowmew ownew of the body wecognises it. The body could as weww takes weeks to yeaws to gain it's undead life, which means it's decaying stage could be quite advanced, and the peopwe might not even notice that bodies awe missing fwom gwaveyawds... On the othew hand if aww bodies went to gwaveyawds, the weawm of Athewa would not have space fow towns.
