Wow. For once, Sili and I almost entirely agree! :-D Go,Sili!
: You could say the same of Thrall. They stand around and
: rot, but we never see them actually "die"
: from it...in fact, we know that their decomposition
: can be partially reversed, at least in the creation
: process.
: Myrmidons have a decomposed appearance--even extremely
: old living people don't lose all the water in their
: bodies and have their jaws fall off. They can survive
: enormous amounts of physical trauma (e.g. having ribs
: torn out of their bodies) without complaint. They're
: marked as "undead" in the TFL tags. They're
: killed by healing. They're described as no longer
: "flesh and blood." Unless you take the
: undead to be mindless by definition--which is why I
: suggested "unliving" as an additional
: category--there's really no reason not to classify
: them as sentient undead, produced via an unusual
: method.
The only thing I'd have to disagree with is using the term "unliving". I realize that it's just a term, but it can be a bit confusing. Surely we Asylumites, the diligent researchers and pseudo-scholars we are, can find a nice name that is appropriate which we can all agree upon (I'm thinking Greek or Latin). Hmm…maybe German? Untot, perhaps.
