Corporeal Undead

Undead with physical forms that are not vampires, nemortsi, or abominable.

Revenants

Vengeful undead.

Abhartach

A cruel tyrant slain by their foes who comes back stronger and more powerful as a vengeful undead, seeking those who slew them. If they are slain again and buried head down, they will not return.

Gello

A revenant woman who comes back with both phantasmal and corporeal forms and power over owls to cause miscarriages, spread infertility, and harm children. Special amulets are said to keep them away.

Gjenganger

A corporeal murder victim back from the dead to terrorize their family and friends. Special funerary rites prevent them, and painted symbols will drive them away.

Kukudh

A Sharian revenant, an undead miser only defeatable by a brave child. Kukudhi spread plague.

Nachzehrer

A vengeful undead figure who drains lifeforce from a distance and eat their own funerla shrouds.

Revenant

Vengeful corporeal undead, often blaming the wrong people for their deaths. If they are reburied without their heads, they will not come back.

Skeletons

No flesh, all or mostly bone.

Bloody Bones

Skeletons drenched in blood stained with the blood of their victims from when they were alive; these are the skeletons of wretched killers. They can be permanently destroyed if one of their victims (or a descendant of their victims) speaks a special ritual phrase at them. Magic, silver, and blood also destroys them.

Dread Reever

An undead pirate skeleton that brings floods, tidal waves, storms, maelstroms, and other sea disasters to ships when they attack. They are harbingers of disaster and misfortune, and they glow with green flame. They can be destroyed with magic or silver. They are especially susceptible to water, wind, or earth magic.

Malossa

Burning skeletons who hunt those whom the imperials believe should go to Hell. They will only hunt those marked by the Imperial Church as sinners. They will return to Hell if they find their quarry. They can be destroyed via magic, silver, gold, salt, or ancient faiths. They are very weak to celestial water magic and supernum. They are immune to fire of all kinds. It is said they can steal souls with their fiery gaze. Their laughter makes sinners faint.

Schaber

A skeleton that climbs out of your nightmares to get you. They can be defeated with a nightlight, a bedtime story, or a closed closet door. Bravery destroys them.

Skeleton

Just a skeleton animated by undead powers. They are destroyed by magic, silver, or fire.

Sloughed One

An abusive, violent person who died during a ritual in which they tried to become a hollow child. Instead of becoming living skin, their insides became an undead monster that seeks to suck emotions and souls out of people to restore its skin. Its organs and meat are rotting off, leaving only the skeleton. They hunt the victims they harmed in life, and if none are left, they seek the weakest to bully and terrorize. They can be killed by magic or by one of their victims standing up to them via ritual magic.

Wight

Fext

Undead figures immune to any physical attack, often former or current generals or other warrior-leaders. Only magic can defeat them.

Grausamerkoerper

Soldiers designed to fight even after they die. They can only be stopped with magic or a secret code word designed into them.

Hanged Tom

An undead being from the body of someone who was hanged or who hanged themselves. Their noose contains all of their power, so stealing it gives one power over them, including the power to destroy them (by destroying the noose with fire). They cause misery and despair in those who see them, and they usually seek to kill the ones who hanged them. If they hanged themselves, they simply try to destroy themselves but do not know how.

Heartless

Corpses with all of their blood gone and their hearts missing; they rise up and serve the one who has their heart. They are able to drain lifeforce from people with their touch. Destroying or returning their heart destroys them.

Osusheno

A corpse whose life was taken by a velikiy. They are missing part of themselves and want it back. The part that is missing is some characteristic - strength, emotion, intelligence, speed, etc. - and it was taken by the velikiy. If the velikiy is killed, the osusheno will rest. If the velikiy cannot be killed, someone may either sacrifice their own strength, speed, etc. to send the osusheno, or they can destroy it with magic, silver, gold, or oleander tea.

Sancervu

A corpse who either had their mind taken psionically in life or whose brain was literally removed, the sancervu is a mindless undead body that wants to eat brains. It is different from a zombie, which is created via special powders and is more complex (and have not yet made it to Ranu). They can be destroyed by striking their hearts, burning them, or using silver or magic.

Shambler

Animated corpses entirely controlled by another. These are mindless, senseless drones which cannot function without outside control. They are expendable undead, often found in large numbers, and can only be destroyed by removing their heads, burning them, attacking with magic, silver, faith, or killing their master.