Might as well go ahead and affix a note to your clothes that explains it. 'ALIVE: NOT A DEAD SKELETON'. Something like that. Perhaps with a helpful arrow pointing to yourself, to erase any confusion.
[Completely serious advice, of course.]
Zombies, though...? Ah yes, the form of necromancy available here that calls not the dead to true life, but commands their shambling, decaying corpses. So yes, they are real, to put it not-so-briefly.
'Tis something that occurs on a multitude of stars, undeath itself taking on a multitude of forms.
[He would've asked whether a magic-centric society like monsterkind had anything like it, but with what he knows now of the longevity of monster souls... it seemed unlikely. After death, there would be nothing to resurrect, even as a revenant.
It still disturbed him to know, even if their souls had been made more durable on this world.]
no subject
[Completely serious advice, of course.]
Zombies, though...? Ah yes, the form of necromancy available here that calls not the dead to true life, but commands their shambling, decaying corpses. So yes, they are real, to put it not-so-briefly.
'Tis something that occurs on a multitude of stars, undeath itself taking on a multitude of forms.
[He would've asked whether a magic-centric society like monsterkind had anything like it, but with what he knows now of the longevity of monster souls... it seemed unlikely. After death, there would be nothing to resurrect, even as a revenant.
It still disturbed him to know, even if their souls had been made more durable on this world.]