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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voi_D_ragon" data-source="post: 7262017" data-attributes="member: 6855956">As the title suggests, do intelligent undead have souls? Obviously basic undead such as zombies and skeletons, which are simply corpses moved by magic with no intent other than to follow orders or instincts (if your zombies are the independent, brain-eating types), do not have souls, but what about Whights, or Revenants, or Lichs? As they retain some or all of their personality, does this mean that their soul still resides within their body? My gut answer would be no, the magic that animates them and keeps their bodies semi-intact and functioning also keeps their brains in an operable state, and their mannerisms and personality are simply a consequence of all (or most) of their brain cells still retaining their former configuration (for the sake of this argument, I'm assuming that the physical position, development and connection between one another of brain cells is the sole cause of personality traits, memories, etc) and functioning in some manner, without the spiritual essence actually being there (this means that the creature also can't learn any new skills, and probably has very short-term memory of events happening after its death)But I want to hear what you think.(I want to know this because I want to put an undead guard in a room containing a tainted artifact, and would like to think up of the effects it could have on its personality-in my example, the artifact doesn't drive the guardian insane because it can't physically alter the structure of its brain, thus it retains the traits it had in life)</blockquote>

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