: For the love of god, "unlife" =
: "DEATH!" "Unalive" =
: "dead." Please, please, pick a better term
: for this.
Unlife does not mean death, in fact, unlife is not even an official word, at least according to any of the dictionaries I've looked for it in. In YOUR opinion it means death, but your interpretation doesn't immediatly become canon. In traditional roleplaying circles (many RPGs are the forefathers are the term Undead), Unlife is the state of sentient life after death. Unlife would then apply to Shades, Fallen Lords, Myrmidons etc. Think of Vampires as Unliving, and Thrall as Undead.
: A Shade's Body is dead. So is Soublighter's, Shiver's, so
: are Myrmidons', Thrall, Soulless, et al. Anything
: potentially classifiable as "undead" dies
: when its natural life ceases to exist, therefore
: dieing; and equally, its continual animation is
: generated by artificial means of suspended false life.
Where did you get the information that Soulblighter died? According to all sources I could find, he simply wandered off in search of eternal life.
: The preservation of conscious mind of an undead creature
: has to do with its remaining brain's thinking
: potential, in part, but also by what spells are used
: by a necromancer to preserve such things.
: Shades need their minds to think through strategic
: situations, so their cognazance is understood.
: Myrmidons couldn't perform the complex, tactical moves
: they do, or move so quickly or be so in command of
: their senses, even to run away in a losing situation,
: if they didn't have a mind.
: Everything undead which can think, at least in part, for
: itself has such for a reason, and this is applicable
: to all situations. Why else would a spell be directly
: used to preserve such a thing?
We could divide the Undead into two groups, rather than calling them Undead and Unliving. Sentient Undead and Puppet Undead.
SENTIENT
Shades
Myrmidons
Ghosts
PUPPET
Thrall
Wights (Although their ability to feel pain may indicate some form of sentience)
Soulless
I don't know where Mahir fall in all of this. Are they even considered Undead?
: Myrmidons were willing. So are Shades.
Myrmidons never died, they were simply preserved. So their sentience is not an issue here. We know Shades are former Avatars, and thus they were killed.
: Alric's head flying away at mach speed from the Great
: Devoid wasn't a mistake either. That doens't mean that
: lost plot arc was retained in the final story.
It does look like Alric's head, although it is debateable whether or not it is actually his. If you ask me, it is kinda fat considering the lithe state of his body.
: Meh? Make up some term better than "unlife" and
: we'll talk :-). I suggest you go for the Latin
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: Idea! If you don't get it, I will! :-)
Why is it that we have to use a better term of unlife just because you don't like it? I'm sure there ARE better words, but your dislike of the term isn't immediate grounds for us to change our way of using it. In several roleplaying games (Dungeons and Dragons being a prominent one), Unlife is referred to as the state of sentient death, the ability to act as you did in life without the constraints of death. By your theory of Unlife=Death, then Undeath would equal life.
LR
