Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3390467" data-attributes="member: 926">According to Libris Mortis, the souls of those raised as undead, even unintelligent undead, are indeed trapped in the undead shells.  This is why the creation of undead is an Evil act.  I've come to agree with this treatment of it; this is why Create Undead is such a low level spell compared to Animate Objects, and not a complex Item Creation feat like Create Construct.  The inclusion of the trapped soul as an animating force makes it much simpler to do. It also adds an extra interesting element to undead, and I do love using undead as monsters and bad guys.  It makes undead all the more horrifying when you realize that the original person's soul is imprisoned in that zombie you are fighting (maybe even seeing what it is doing through it's own eyes, yet unable to stop it) makes the threat of becoming undead all the more terrifying, condemns Necromancers and others creators of undead as truly the most horridly vilest of Evil, and also makes destroying undead a truly Good act, by releasing the trapped souls contained within the undead obscenities.</blockquote>