Horrors that crawl out of their grave, however shallow, are undead. Undeads have physical bodies, even if they form it themselves or switch it. Destroying undeads is about their physical destruction, about purging the world from their putrid presence.
Ghosts are not undead, but they do not belong to This World and it is our duty to send them to Humakt's Hall, where Humakt will decide their fate. Demons, even from the Underworld, are not undead, although they also must be sent back, and are, by our Swords.
There are too many kinds of undead, from animated automatons to powerful, ambitious magicians. When you discuss openly as you do of liches, vampires, draugrs, you call evil to your door, and that of your neighbour. Your local Humakt initiate will come to you and make sure you bleed like a living being ; his Sword will taste you and mark you as alive or dead. If you persist in such blasphemies, he will mark you. Children and women will run away from your evil eye. Carls and cottars will throw stones at you. Thanes will chase you out of the tula.
So stay with Life. Do not delve into necromancy.
Or you will feel our Swords again. For the last time. And you won't come back to bother the living.
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