: Nope, Shades are undead. All the texts from TFL thru
: GURPS agree on that. Not all undead are immune to the
: Binding Dream (or other mind-control spells)--just the
: mindless ones. Shades and Myrmidons have minds that
: can be controlled; Thrall and Wights and so forth are
: just extensions of their master.
: Given the origins of various undead types, it appears
: that if you take a being straight from living to
: undead, like Myrmidons and Shades--or, equivalently,
: kill and resurrect them instantly--their mind sticks
: around to some extent. (How much of it stays is
: probably a function of the necromancer's power and
: skill.) If you resurrect a fairly fresh corpse, as for
: instance to make a Ghast, they have (says GURPS) only
: a few fractured memories and a basic grasp of their
: native language--though hey, they might just be
: responding to unconscious cues. :-P And undead made
: from old corpses, like Thrall, have no mind
: whatsoever.
: --SiliconDream
Personally, I think there are 2 main reasons why a binding dream doesn't work on shades: 1: they used to be archmages, and so have phenomenal willpower, and 2: If it did work, it would SERIOUSLY unbalance the game.
