Undead

The undead were once living creatures, but upon their natural death were somehow supernaturally animated. Because these horrifying creatures are not actually living, they find it hard (if not impossible) to regenerate their bodily tissue, thus most undead are seen with the flesh rotting off their bodies and bare bones protruding through their garments. With this in mind, its not hard to understand why some undead creatures are capable of inflicting their victims with disease. Another side-effect of being animated (as opposed to being alive) is that undead creatures do not rely upon blood flowing through their veins to keep them alive, and as such they cannot be made to bleed through the use of skills such as sever artery. This renders useless a number of skills that many sword-weilding warriors equip.

While the majority of the undead encountered are bipedal and humanoid, any once-living creature could be reanimated. Do not be surprised to attempt to flee from a mob of undead, only to be riding down by skeletal horsemen.

Any party should be careful when adventuring in undead-infested regions such as Lion's Arch as the solitary undead mage which seemed easy pickings suddenly becomes dangerous when numerous unseen cadavors burst forth from the sand to come to its rescue.