: The only objection I can muster is that Shades also seem
: to be created from living beings, and also retain
: their consciousness. And they are, supposedly,
: createable by powerful Dark Lords other than Balor.
: Also, GURPS seems to suggest in the Myrmidon and Ghast
: sections that the spell for producing self-willed
: undead (the Myrmidons' self-consciousness is
: apparently what makes them so amazing) is highly
: complex, but not necessarily a Dream.
: My thought is that there is a more or less ordinary spell
: that allows living creatures to be converted into
: self-willed undead, but it's very rare, very complex,
: very difficult and very energy-draining--except when
: converting archmages, whose innate power reserves and
: very strong will help their minds survive the
: conversion, into Shades. The Dream of Unlife, I think,
: can be used to majorly enhance whatever necromantic
: spells you've already got. Once the Dream is
: activated, it "opens the gates between the lands
: of the living and the dead"--the living in the
: area feel an urge to die and the dead feel an urge to
: rise. An archmage who could create fifty thrall with a
: wave of his hand can nowcreate a thousand; a Fallen
: Lord who could use a living-undeath spell on an
: archmage to create a Shade can now use it on non-mage
: Zerks to create Myrmidons.
: So yes, the Dream probably helped Balor make his Myrms,
: but it may only have enhanced an existing spell. I
: think.
: --SiliconDream
That's a pretty good idea. Hmmm, ::writes down stuff about dream of unlife just in case::
