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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crashy75" data-source="post: 4054347" data-attributes="member: 11017">Hmmm,   I'm not an English major so I could be wrong here but it really looks like a zombie, for example, may or may not have animus depending on the specific definition one uses and how you fluff your zombies.  I could see the zombie having the italicized definition of animus very easily.  They are often described as being hostile to living beings.  This definition of a zombie’s attitude towards the living seems to fit the bolded definition in a limited, or as another put it, ‘weak’ way.  If zombies are described as hostile to the living (in that they, on some level, desire the destruction of living beings), then it would seem that they have an animus using either definition.  If they are somehow either antagonistic without desire, perhaps like a robot that is programmed to kill (another popular zombie description) then they certainly don't fit the italicized definition.  They may fit the bolded definition depending on how one interprets the 'programming'.  Personally, I don't see a zombie having purpose, intention, an animating spirit (that would be necrotic energy imo), an attitude that informs one's actions or a disposition.  But even that is suspect as one could say that the programming gives the zombie purpose or intention.  I think an argument could also be made that the animus and soul are mutually inclusive but that is a topic of it’s own.  I think that the first step here would be to define explicitly what is meant by the soul and animus (or if you want to use such loaded terms in lieu of simpler ones like “desire” and “free-willed”) as well as how these categories relate to the undead in question.</blockquote>

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