“Powerful undead, such as the lingering highborne who wander the Ruins of Eldarath, are sometimes so infused with evil that it coalesces into a sickly greenish goo. To the living, this substance is known as ichor of undeath.”
Playable Undead characters bleed green. So they have the Ichor of Undeath.
But what is ichor?
i·chor
ˈīkôr/
noun: ichor
The fluid that flows like blood in the veins of the gods.
Finally, the Undead are the only playable race on the Cosmology Chart.
We are described here on the same level as the Naaru, the Titans, the Wild Gods and the Old Gods!
There’s also a religion based around Undead worship. It’s called the Cult of the Damned.
Finally, just like other godly races, Undead have created a Race of their own: The Abominations.
You might argue that they just take pieces of meat and sew them together, but how is that any different from a Titan taking a bunch of pre-existing stones and putting them together to make a Dwarf?
So, yeah. We are gods. Again, no big deal. But we are.
I find undead being the type of humanoids that unless you treat them like ye olde fashion zombies they can’t really die. This isn’t because I accidentally cut a forsaken’s head off in RP by rolling a nat20 on another player and took his talking head, nooooooo. (it might be)
