Undead Spirits are those rare and terrible incorporeal spirits that haunt the desolate and ancient places. Though extremely rare, they are greatly feared by all. Only the wisest shaman or witch-doctor can dismiss them, and then only with great difficulty.

Though little is known about them, the Spirit Speakers have learned this about the undead spirits. First, they seem to inhabit areas of ancient tragedy and grief. The passing of the ages seem to be their ally; while ancestral spirits wane as the people forget them, undead spirits seem to grow stronger. They are the absence of love and joy, of honor and hope. They are the embodiment of the empty and dark places.

Secondly, undead spirits hate the living. Any ruin or forgotten battlefield they inhabit becomes a taboo area, and those with the Spirit Face ability know it immediately. No other spirit willingly inhabits an area near an undead spirit.

Third, there is no known way to lay these spirits to rest once and for all. Perhaps that is because they are avoided by everyone, even those on the Council Of Elders, so no one has studied them. There is a rumor that the Allumeseri, the society of evil shaman and witch doctors who practice the death magic, have been trying to discover ways to control these spirits. So far, their efforts have met with failure.

Spirits Of Malatra