Editing Continuity/Undead

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An early version of the [[Zone Bestiary]] had a very different back-story on the existence of undead from what is known now. It stated that, "Undead [are] mostly the risen forms of those who died before discovering the Lifestones. Some evil magic, its source unknown, is touching the slain and raising them to wreak vengeance upon the living,"<ref name=ZoneBestiaryUndead>1999/11 [[Release]] - [[Zone_Bestiary#Undead|Zone Bestiary: Undead]]</ref> and gave two possible explanations: one, that according to Sho tradition magicians who bargained with demons sometimes rose after death<ref name=ZoneBestiaryUndead/> and two, that [[Ardivan Locke]] interrogated a Lich and concluded that undead housed evil spirits, possibly related to the powers [[Bael'Zharon]].<ref name=ZoneBestiaryUndead/>
<br><br>There was a lot of early content designed around this idea. [[:Category:Undead Human|Undead Humans]] exist in places like the [[Colier Mine]], [[Mines of Despair]], [[Mount Lethe Magma Tubes]], and others. Other locations had Undead and Shadows together or Undead with an [[Altar of Bael'Zharon]], like in the [[Sylsfear Dungeon]], the [[Lost Garden Ruins]], Mount Lethe Magma Tubes, and [[Old Talisman]].
<br><br>Early in the [[The Fourth Sending of Darkness]] the current back-story for undead appeared. This version states that many undead are actually [[Empyrean]]s from the ancient kingdom of [[Dericost]] and that they became undead using the [[Blood Magic]] they learned from the [[Falatacot]].<ref name=AC:DMBestiary>2001/11 [[Dark Majesty]] - [[AC:DM_CD_Lore/Bestiary/Derethian_Bestiary#Undead|Bestiary: Undead]]</ref><ref name=TNSignUndead>2010/06 [[Shifting Gears]] - [[Undead (Town Network Painting)]]</ref> Some attempts were also made to retcon some of the earlier examples of undead. Some undead, it was said, were the results of Lifestones not functioning properly. When Lifestones first began to appear, they would reanimate the corpse of the fallen Isparian rather than resurrect them fully healed.<ref>2000/02 [[Stormwaltz Quotes]] - [http://ac.warcry.com/db/text/103 On Lifestones]</ref><ref>2003/03 [[A Perfect Paradox]] - [[The History of Auberean/Volume V: New Arrivals (-540 to 13)|The History of Auberean: Volume V: New Arrivals (-540 to 13)]]</ref> There was also attempts to explain the presence of Undead with Shadows and Altars of Bael'Zharon. Bael'Zharon was originally a Dericostian man named [[Ilservian Palacost]]. Due to his heritage and his hatred for what the Yalaini had done, some of the undead Dericostians became followers of the Hopeslayer.
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