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<blockquote data-quote="LoneWolf23" data-source="post: 957867" data-attributes="member: 643">The flaw in your reasonning is that traditionally, the Egyptians never created undead, or ever intended to.&nbsp; Mummification was intended to preserve the body so that the departed's spirit would be strengthened in the afterlife.&nbsp; If the Mummy's spirit came back to animate the mummy, it was largely regarded as a sign of something being wrong....If you look at the entirety of Human Culture, people generally considered that, after death, the spirit went on to the afterlife, but was still somehow tied to his body.&nbsp; If the dead spirit was somehow restless, he would return, either as a ghost or by animating his corpse to haunt the living.Similarly, magics that reanimate the dead to create zombie or skeleton servents are considered horrible because they temper with the cycle of life and death, enslaving the corpses of often innocent people to do the Necromancer's bidding.Yes, it is a cultural taboo, but it's one that's common to just about every human society on earth, right alongside cannibalism.&nbsp; You just don't disturb the dead...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LoneWolf23, post: 957867, member: 643"] The flaw in your reasonning is that traditionally, the Egyptians never created undead, or ever intended to. Mummification was intended to preserve the body so that the departed's spirit would be strengthened in the afterlife. If the Mummy's spirit came back to animate the mummy, it was largely regarded as a sign of something being wrong. ...If you look at the entirety of Human Culture, people generally considered that, after death, the spirit went on to the afterlife, but was still somehow tied to his body. If the dead spirit was somehow restless, he would return, either as a ghost or by animating his corpse to haunt the living. Similarly, magics that reanimate the dead to create zombie or skeleton servents are considered horrible because they temper with the cycle of life and death, enslaving the corpses of often innocent people to do the Necromancer's bidding. Yes, it is a cultural taboo, but it's one that's common to just about every human society on earth, right alongside cannibalism. You just [B]don't[/B] disturb the dead... [/QUOTE]

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