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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5208840" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>If you're not thinking specifically about D&D then I'm not sure what to offer you, because you haven't given us any parameters. Here are some things that would be helpful:</p><p></p><p>You say "all the different types of undead." That covers a lot of territory. I assume you're talking about pop-culture undead here--brain-eating zombies, vampires who do not drink... vine, bandage-wrapped mummies, grave-robbing ghouls, plus the undead which pop culture invented out of whole cloth (liches*, death knights, et cetera). If so, how broadly are you spreading your net? Do you want just a handful of the most well-known undead types, or does your undead society include Sons of Kyuss, mohrgs, and pennangalans**?</p><p></p><p>What's your position on the metaphysics of undeath? Are undead just corpses animated by magical puppet strings, or is there a more malevolent force involved? Can you have skeletons and zombies work farms to produce food for the living, or is the presence of undead "toxic" to living things?</p><p></p><p>Most vampire/werewolf societies in fiction are "shadow cultures" dwelling on the fringes of human civilization. Is that what you're after? Or are you envisioning a whole undead nation, from the lich-king and his vampire aristocracy at the top down to hordes of skeletons doing the brute labor?</p><p></p><p>[size=-2]*There are some legendary antecedents to liches, such as Koschei the Deathless. However, the lich as we know it is purely an invention of sword and sorcery fiction, popularized first by D&D and later by World of Warcraft.</p><p></p><p>**Pennangalans are based on a Malaysian legend. Their existence in modern pop culture is more or less confined to the 1E Fiend Folio.[/size]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5208840, member: 58197"] If you're not thinking specifically about D&D then I'm not sure what to offer you, because you haven't given us any parameters. Here are some things that would be helpful: You say "all the different types of undead." That covers a lot of territory. I assume you're talking about pop-culture undead here--brain-eating zombies, vampires who do not drink... vine, bandage-wrapped mummies, grave-robbing ghouls, plus the undead which pop culture invented out of whole cloth (liches*, death knights, et cetera). If so, how broadly are you spreading your net? Do you want just a handful of the most well-known undead types, or does your undead society include Sons of Kyuss, mohrgs, and pennangalans**? What's your position on the metaphysics of undeath? Are undead just corpses animated by magical puppet strings, or is there a more malevolent force involved? Can you have skeletons and zombies work farms to produce food for the living, or is the presence of undead "toxic" to living things? Most vampire/werewolf societies in fiction are "shadow cultures" dwelling on the fringes of human civilization. Is that what you're after? Or are you envisioning a whole undead nation, from the lich-king and his vampire aristocracy at the top down to hordes of skeletons doing the brute labor? [size=-2]*There are some legendary antecedents to liches, such as Koschei the Deathless. However, the lich as we know it is purely an invention of sword and sorcery fiction, popularized first by D&D and later by World of Warcraft. **Pennangalans are based on a Malaysian legend. Their existence in modern pop culture is more or less confined to the 1E Fiend Folio.[/size] [/QUOTE]
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