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<blockquote data-quote="survivesurvivor" data-source="post: 2686288" data-attributes="member: 36423"><p>Ooh cool, thanx for the quick replies! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>That makes undead pretty cool, but i guess that makes them a little weird too. Does that mean that slashing weapons theoretically do not work on them? Chop them up and the forgotten hands and bits come creeping up on you again since the magic in them are still functional?</p><p></p><p> <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 :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Theory of Undead Magics</p><p></p><p>When an inanimate object once occupied by a living soul and is that soul's original containment object (thus, not including magic jars and such) is subjected to a series of necromantic rituals, that object is filled with negative energies which grants it locomotor functions and varying degrees of intelligence, which are not concentrated in any discernable physical aspect of the object.</p><p></p><p>These energies possess a capacity to be aware of inhabited object's surroundings and do not utilize any sensory organs which the living soul may have made use of before its departure in the object. Any damage dealt to any delicate portions of the object's anatomy would not incapacitate said energies in any manner, save for cosmetic marring.</p><p></p><p>Upon reduction of any portion of the object to a suitably small mass, the negative energies are released and that object or portion under scrutiny loses said abilities granted by the released negative energies.</p><p></p><p>Hence, the most effective and straightforward method of defence against a said animated object would be forces which separate the animated object into suitably small masses, or by the decomposition of object (via processes such as combustion) since it would decompose said object into minute portions of carbon which are unable to contain said negative energies.</p><p></p><p> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> An attempt to make it plausible!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="survivesurvivor, post: 2686288, member: 36423"] Ooh cool, thanx for the quick replies! ;) That makes undead pretty cool, but i guess that makes them a little weird too. Does that mean that slashing weapons theoretically do not work on them? Chop them up and the forgotten hands and bits come creeping up on you again since the magic in them are still functional? :D Theory of Undead Magics When an inanimate object once occupied by a living soul and is that soul's original containment object (thus, not including magic jars and such) is subjected to a series of necromantic rituals, that object is filled with negative energies which grants it locomotor functions and varying degrees of intelligence, which are not concentrated in any discernable physical aspect of the object. These energies possess a capacity to be aware of inhabited object's surroundings and do not utilize any sensory organs which the living soul may have made use of before its departure in the object. Any damage dealt to any delicate portions of the object's anatomy would not incapacitate said energies in any manner, save for cosmetic marring. Upon reduction of any portion of the object to a suitably small mass, the negative energies are released and that object or portion under scrutiny loses said abilities granted by the released negative energies. Hence, the most effective and straightforward method of defence against a said animated object would be forces which separate the animated object into suitably small masses, or by the decomposition of object (via processes such as combustion) since it would decompose said object into minute portions of carbon which are unable to contain said negative energies. :cool: An attempt to make it plausible! [/QUOTE]
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