Zombie

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Zombie
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Zombies are mindless creatures roaming the lands of Anthos. They were seen numerous times within the lands of Aegis, often during attacks by the Undead. They continued to blight the lands of Asulon, appearing across the realm. The origin of Zombies are not entirely clear, but it is thought that the Undead and Necromancers can raise and even control Zombies. Similar to Skeletons, Zombies are thought to be the bodies of dead citizens of Anthos, reanimated for sinister purposes.

Zombies inability to use their mind causes them to roam around the lands of Anthos and they thus can be seen almost anywhere. The mixture of rotting flesh and old bones slow them in their pursuit to devour as many as they can. Also like Skeletons, Zombies are highly susceptible to sunlight. When their skin is exposed to the sun their immediately catch on fire and burn. Small piles of ash can often be found in the early morning, the result of a disintegrated body of a Zombie.

Zombie corpses can be found to contain many items. Some will carry things that they used in life, such as minas, gold nuggets and armour. It may also be possible to find bones within the corpse. Occasionally a Zombie may carry an item of rarity.

Origins

Throughout the nights in Athera and in the dark spots of the realm, undead beings rise and fall with the coming of light. They do not come in groups, seeming to appear almost randomly, always in dark places as the light seems to harm them. They aren't part of any particular group, so where do they come from?

These creatures of the night have interesting origins. Their bodies are the bodies of those which die. Humans, orcs, dwarves, haflings, elves and khas. The bodies are decomposed or completely rotten off leaving only the skeletons. As everyone in Athera knows, the monks try and save as many mortals as they can from death, and they may do this without using the body pf the deceaced. That explains where all the zombies and skeletons come from, but what creates them?

When a person is revived, the powers of the Triumvirate work on the soul. How it does it and in what way is not understood. Yet the Triumvirate pays a price for the reviving. The creation of a new almost perfect body for the soul, and redirecting the soul to the temple causes a sort of paradox in the realm. A man has died, yet he is still living. This in turn causes the dead body of the revived to re-gain life as well, yet with a dead body and without a soul. This in turn makes them rather brainless, but also a bit dangerous, as they attack living being without reason. Most of these zombies appear with only clothes, without armor, as armor is something valuable that is normally stolen, yet there are the exceptions around, the zombies which still walk with armor, and sometimes weapons.

Only the bodies of those revived by the monks have their old body turn into one of these creatures, it is a price the Triumvirate is willing to pay to keep the people of the mortal realm alive. Once a mortal permanently dies, it's body behaves like a normal dead body, it stays unmoving, decaying and dead. The reason why no mortal ever sees himself as a zombie, is simply because the zombie becomes far too decayed and changed that not even the former owner of the body recognises it. The body could as well takes weeks to years to gain it's undead life, which means it's decaying stage could be quite advanced, and the people might not even notice that bodies are missing from graveyards... On the other hand if all bodies went to graveyards, the realm of Athera would not have space for towns.