> >and say that they are mortal women who undergo a ritual
> >transformation upon attaining
> >rune level, rather as Draugr do (in the cult of Urain), or as
> >vampires once did (in the old
> >Cults of Terror version of Vivamort).
>
> Presenting the Draugr as a vivamortesque cult seems off to me as the
> act of becoming
> a Draugr IMO is a combination of having a bad spiritual flaw (the
> mark of Urain so to
> speak) and suffering an unclean death.
The cult of Urain writeup you are referring to is not only unofficial but factually incorrect("draugr" is just a generic term for undead. I like it but we are unlikely to use it because there are perfectly good English words that connote the same thing, like "wight").
Jeff