: Yes, they seemed to go straight from life to undeath
: without spending any time as a corpse.
I always thought that Myrms wern't undead at all, they bargained for neverending life and they got it, without realizing that their wish would be perverted (as almost always happens in stories of this nature) to mean that they would live forever but their bodies would continue to age. A myrm is what a several hundred year old man would look like.
: According to GURPS, shades are simply undead archmages.
: Rarely, if ever, would they be Avatara; it seems that
: you have to be an evil bastard who actively seeks out
: Shadehood. Then you bargain with a more powerful Dark
: Lord and he converts you in exchange for your loyalty.
So I guess shades are a bit like liches?
If I had a rocket launcher, I'd make somebody pay.
