Undead

The undead are the corpses of beings with souls reanimated by curse, affliction or supernatural forces into a "negative" force that continues to exist outside of natural law. With the change comes a persistence that enables the undead to continue for age after age, infecting new victims and multiplying their evil in the world.

In most cases, victims who die under the hand or influence of the undead become undead themselves, to prey on others in their turn. The experience is like being in a trance; all they knew of their old life is gone, replaced by forces of occult — unknown horrors that take place in the fissures of the earth, impossible to apprehend through science and logic.

When the body of an undead creature is destroyed — and often, this requires complex and difficult to employ means — the soul of the original victim is released and finally able to rest. The undead becomes "true dead," unable to rise again.