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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 1741847" data-attributes="member: 19675">Exactly, Alloran.In a sense, you could argue that Arthur lying "sleeping" in Avalon, ready to rise again if Britain should ever need him is just that kind of pact.Ditto the mummy who guards his god/king.  Which reminds me...I never liked the rule that mummies were evil- they are, after all, guarding temples or deceased rulers from tomb raiding non-believers.Similarly, witness the Undead Druids in Terry Brooks' Shanarra books.  These undead druids inhabit the Hadeshorn, and use the knowledge they had in life and the perceptive powers attributed to the dead (by people like Dante) to inform the living.The Sons of Kyuss in Fritz Lieber's Lankhmar books are not only defenders of the city, but also the occasional instrument of divine justice.And then there's the undead guy in the cellar of Glen Cook's Garret books...  He's not evil...he's just amoral.And as for the other, the court ordered reanimation, it would be as simple as:  "I sentence the killer to die at the hands of his victims.  Priest!  Raise the Revenants!"As for MerakSpielman's idea, I participated in a discussion about just such a place.  We decided that Zombies make ideal farmers (of crops, not livestock) since they don't actually feed on the living (they just follow orders) and they fertilize the soil as they work...Although, skeletons would have to be used for the harvesting.  No one wants to eat corn that smells of zombie.Sewer patrol is one we hadn't considered, though.  Good idea!  (I'm stealing that, BTW.)Most undead, however, would be too stupid to do complex tasks like construction.  Each one would need an individual foreman to tell it what task to do at that moment.</blockquote>

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