Undead

Undead are creatures brought to life using the necromantic energies of the Realm of Unlife are not truly alive in any sense of the word as they cannot think or act creatively. They have however a certain understanding of words and concepts, by some explained as a distant memory of life. Given a simple order an undead creature can therefore carry it out even if the order doesn’t state exactly how something should be done. As an example an undead never needs instructions on how to use a weapon, and would not understand them if given, but can readily obey an order to attack. This includes the ghouls, mummies, skeletons, ultors and zombies, which are referred to as lesser undead.

Greater undead; archons, demonhosts, ghasts, revenants and liches, differs from their lesser kind as they have a spirit bound within. This mean they can think and act much like a living being, somewhat restricted by the type of spirit bound. While more powerful, a necromancer has no true control over a greater undead and therefore it can turn on its master at will. Selecting the right soul is therefore critical or a greater undead will be of more harm than use.

Undead perceive the world through magical means and are especially good at detecting sources of biomancy, which usually is the same as living beings. Fog, darkness and other light modifications have no effect on undead but they can still be foiled by magical illusions or dense vegetation.

As undead creatures are not alive they do not feel pain or fatigue. Trauma is the only type of damage to fully affect an undead creature. An undead creature is destroyed when it has accumulated enough damage that the necromantic energies can no longer hold it together. Undead can suffers injuries such as losing an arm, but they ignore many of the effects of Injuries which could be deadly to living creatures, such as having their throats slit or organs punctured.

Biomancy is harmful to undead and any biomancy spell will cause trauma towards an undead creature. Necromancy on the other hand is not harmful to undead and any necromancy spell will heal an undead creature.