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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nem z" data-source="post: 4054086" data-attributes="member: 51847">I can definately see a vampire as a creature with body and soul but no animus, hence the need to sustain itself artificially by borrowing some from it's victims and the obsessive need to seek out ways to prompt memories of past emotions, the closest it can come to feeling anything.A ghost as an actual enemy creature to fight or otherwise interact with should require both an animus and soul, I agree.I would argue that a soul with neither body nor animus should still be possible, though not as a typical creature per say.  Consider the 'spiritual echo' style of a haunting, in which an undead seems to retrace it's final moments (or some other significant event) over and over again, often too caught up in it's own memories to acknowledge changes in the surroundings or the presence of others.  Just because this type of undead doesn't actually -do- anything doesn't mean it's harmless, however.  Such an encounter could quite likely involve various damaging or psychological aura effects, compulsive enchantments to force observers to play along, and even illusionary effects strong enough to pull observers into the scene as the undead experiences it or cause psychosomatic injuries.So, my taxonomy would be as follows:BSA = corporeal intelligent emotional undead (Living Being)~~~~~~~~~~BS = corporeal intelligent hollow undead (Vampire)BA = corporeal mindless emotional undead (Zombie)AS = incorporeal intelligent emotional undead (Ghost)A = incorporeal mindless emotional undead (Shadow)S = incorporeal intelligent hollow undead (Presence)~~~~~~~~~~B = corporeal mindless hollow dead (Corpse)</blockquote>

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