See also Necromancers
Anonymity
Theories on anonymity and its affects on the dead are discussed further at the White Road entry.
Undead
Not all of these creatures have been definitively listed as undead. Some, like the sack children, flesh golems and vampires, might not be.
- Drow-ghosts
- Ostrlich (an ostrich lich)
- Withered and worm-eaten undead labour in 16.00
- Grey Revenants are born in 43.27
- Vampires
- Cauldronborn
- Sack children
- A spirit has possessed the body of a necromancer preserved in alcohol in 15.11
- Prisoners working on the Waterworks (Shuttered) who die before they have served out their sentence are reanimated as skeletons
- Flesh golems are created by the Necromantic Office
- Skeleton-melanges or skeleton-bundles are created with the use of corpse-slather
- Hive zombies in 13.09 have their insides replaced with honey
- The White Road, itself a gigantic undead, passes many thousands of tombs as none may be buried within the Shuttered City. Once dead, peasants’ bones are ground up to make the road.
- Ghouls and spectres are mentioned in passing
- There are undead cows in the Sealed Embassy of Naros.
- It’s not clear if either variety of mummy, the mellified mummy or the ice mummies, are undead.
- Corpse trees “grow” in 11.11
- Fughol the Ageless is becoming undead by eating corpse acorn pemmican produced by corpse trees.
Connections
- Blind dogs bark in the presence of ghosts and spirits; some bark at all undead. A rare few have barks that drive off the undead.
- Corpse-slather fuses two dead or undead bodies.
- Some say that sprinkling beer across a path will keep vengeful dead away.