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<blockquote data-quote="Allanon" data-source="post: 820236" data-attributes="member: 8513">Well I suppose that depends on whether they were embalmed or the like. And whether you rule that magic will maintain them. The normal rules don't state clearly whether magic does this, although a gentle repose in combination with permanency could do the trick.A normal zombie freshly raised will decompose normally and eventually become nothing more than a skeleton, whose bones will become yellow and brittle over the years until it disintigrate's into a pile of bone pieces and powder. the times this takes is about 6 month for a zombie to turn skeleton. Less if in a humid enviroment like a swamp or rainforest. More if in a dry enviroment like a frozen tundra or a desert. Skeleton's will probably last longer, something like 20 to 30 years.&nbsp;On the other hand a embalmed zombie or skeleton will probably last much much longer... something like 10 to 15 years for a zombie to 50 years for a skeleton. If regularly treated it could very well last for as long as it is maintained. If put in a vacuum (like a glass box) it could last forever without preservatives or maintainence. You could also put you're undead 'sculptures' in a glass container filled with a preservative. A sort of a grissly biological lab like the on at a school <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />. Only this one can move. Just imagine the visual, a room filled with jars and containers who's contents turn their heads (or something vaguely similer) to follow you and who's hands, feets, appendages still occasionally move. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allanon, post: 820236, member: 8513"] Well I suppose that depends on whether they were embalmed or the like. And whether you rule that magic will maintain them. The normal rules don't state clearly whether magic does this, although a gentle repose in combination with permanency could do the trick. A normal zombie freshly raised will decompose normally and eventually become nothing more than a skeleton, whose bones will become yellow and brittle over the years until it disintigrate's into a pile of bone pieces and powder. the times this takes is about 6 month for a zombie to turn skeleton. Less if in a humid enviroment like a swamp or rainforest. More if in a dry enviroment like a frozen tundra or a desert. Skeleton's will probably last longer, something like 20 to 30 years. On the other hand a embalmed zombie or skeleton will probably last much much longer... something like 10 to 15 years for a zombie to 50 years for a skeleton. If regularly treated it could very well last for as long as it is maintained. If put in a vacuum (like a glass box) it could last forever without preservatives or maintainence. You could also put you're undead 'sculptures' in a glass container filled with a preservative. A sort of a grissly biological lab like the on at a school :p. Only this one can move. Just imagine the visual, a room filled with jars and containers who's contents turn their heads (or something vaguely similer) to follow you and who's hands, feets, appendages still occasionally move. :D [/QUOTE]

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