: I think that GURPS simply changed a few things (creating
: undead included) to make the sytem run well as an RPG.
: To allow PCs to create their own undead, or at least
: to incorporate it in a GURPS game, I think they
: changed things to allow any mage to do this. In myth
: it is not as simple. The Watcher (Bah'al) used the
: Dream of Unlife to turn the fallen warriors at Avons
: Grove into Thrall. The Dream of Unlife seems to be the
: only way to create undead in TFL. Yet Soulblighter has
: his own Undead forces, as you say he's not much of a
: mage.
: So The Dream of Unlife is generally the only method of
: creating the undead, and Bah'al was the one with the
: dream of unlife.
It doesn't actually say, though that the Watcher used the Dream of Unlife (and wasn't it a Shade who did the reanimating there?). I don't think any of the Dreams have a unique effect; their effects are just more powerful/longlasting/farreaching than ordinary spells. With the Dream of Unlife maybe the Watcher could have raised every corpse on the continent at once or something, but without it he could still make undead.
--SiliconDream
