Lore
Undead
アンデッド
Races & CreaturesMajor Races
The umbrella term for walking corpses and incorporeal spirits driven by negative energy; they hate the living and have many immunities, but generally fear holy power and fire.
- Basic traits: they are immune to critical hits, mental effects, poison, disease, sleep, paralysis, instant death, ability damage, and energy drain; they need no food or oxygen and never tire; and they have darkvision and complete cold resistance and are healed by negative energy.
- With few exceptions, they are weak to fire and holy damage; no amount of damage slows them down.
- In the New World they spawn naturally where death hangs heavy, such as graveyards and old battlefields. Left alone, they give rise to stronger individuals, so regular purges are needed; the Katze Plains are a hotspot.
- The "Death Spiral" ritual that cults use to exploit this cycle is actually just a failed magic ritual born of a misunderstanding.
- Some undead can "create their own kind"; "requiem rites" are held to keep corpses from rising.
- Any race except slimes (which have no skeletons) can become zombies or skeletons.
- Ainz sees undead, which need no food and never tire, as limitless labor and uses them on a large scale in the Sorcerer Kingdom.
- Abandoned corpses very rarely rise as undead on their own, except on the Katze Plains; a corpse that rises is said to become an undead matching its strength in life (from The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains)
- When adventurers loot corpses, they always leave the dead one accessory before burial, because taking everything is said to risk spawning undead obsessed with the lost items (The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains (Part 1)-073)
- Skeletons are fully resistant to piercing and resistant to slashing but weak to bludgeoning; zombies run on negative energy, so they neither rot nor breed maggots and start to decay only once destroyed (side story)
- A wraith looks to each observer like a member of the observer's own race; undead who look at it see their original race (Vol. 2 p. 307)
Notes
Vampires are an exception among undead; for example, they retain sexual desire. Ainz has heard this comes from imitating the vampire princesses of legend.
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