There is no one way to do anything in Glorantha.
Off the top of my head, I'd accept any of the following as viable ways to
make a "corpse" walk:
Stuff an otherworld entity into it - Spirit, Daimon, Essence, who cares, use
what's easiest.
Bind the deceased spirit/soul/whatever to it's own body
Animate the bones directly with Sorcery magic
Ask your god to animate the bones for you
"Zombie powder" ala _The Serpent and Rainbow_ that puts the victim's
conscious mind into a comatose state, but able to follow commands
Demon infestation passed by bite (kind of like the "Stuff a Spirit in it",
but doesn't need the outsider's magic to propogate).
As far as the Death Rune allowing one to make undead, I'd say "probably not", just like the Life/Fertility rune shouldn't. The undead are Not Dead But Not Alive. Undeath has its own rune, use it. It's only been around for a quarter century or so. Kinda late to complain that it's a "newcomer".
Zombies: Fast or slow?
I have, somewhere in my computer, the writeup of a Chaos Demon that animates the dead. The more bodies it animates, the slower they become, so the Zombie infestation starts out as a single _28 Days Later_ or _Resident Evil_ zombie, and grows into a Romero _Night of the Living Dead_ (the original B&W version) horde. The Demon porpogates by - you guessed it - biting the living *or* dead.
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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