: I'm not sure which level you're talking about, but I'll
: check
Flight from Covenant, and Myrms *are* killed by healing.
: ...Vampires _are_ dead. They are killed then depending on
: who you hear, raised in some way. Myrmidons are
: immortal, almost the opposite of undead. The reason
: they can't go under water is because IMHO they still
: breathe. Nothing points to the fact that they don't.
: The reason they're rotted (or more likely simply
: hyperaged, rotting would be something dead and it
: would have consumed them looong ago) is because they
: still age. Perhaps you didn't look close enough at
: those heads, They still have a thin skin stretched
: over them. They seem to have lost their lower
: jawbones, but that's probably either from the initial
: ritual, disuse (and atrophy) or just Bungie asthetics.
Well, they are unhealable. And if you look at the larger pictures of them (there's a couple in GURPS which were done by Bungie artists), you can see that they're indeed pretty broken-down. Not rotted, but not hyper-aged either; more like mummified. Which does explain why they can't go under water; they'd simply come apart.
GURPS classifies them as free-willed undead, and I think this is correct. The difference between them and other undead is that they didn't spend any time simply being dead; instead, Balor took them straight from life to undeath before their personalities had time to disintegrate. They're immortal, in that their minds can last forever, but that doesn't mean that their bodies are still alive. After all, Shades are intelligent, self-willed *and* not killed by healing, but we know from the manual that they're undead.
--SiliconDream
