====== Undead ======

{{:abilities:undead.png?nolink }} The **Undead** are beings brought back from the dead or summoned from the Underworld to serve in unlife. Undead creatures range from chaff such as ??Ghoul??s (zombies) and ??Longdead?? (skeletons), which can be summoned en masse to smother the battlefield, to powerful, immortal mages like ??Lich??es and ??Wraith Lord??s who can resurrect their own armies of undead.

Being undead is typically associated with a number of other characteristics:
  * {{:abilities:resist_poison.png?15&nolink}} Poison Resistance 15
  * {{:abilities:resist_cold.png?15&nolink}} Cold Resistance 25
  * For non-Ghouls: {{:abilities:spirit_sight.png?15&nolink}} [[Spirit Sight]]; for Ghouls: {{:abilities:darkvision.png?15&nolink}} [[Darkvision]] 50%
  * {{:abilities:need_not_eat.png?15&nolink}} [[Need not Eat]]

=====Mechanics=====

Undead creatures may become diseased, but they do not suffer any adverse affects from this and cannot become afflicted from disease. However, they also cannot have any afflictions they gain from battle healed by the [[Healer]] ability. The equivalent ability that works on undead is [[Corpse Stitcher]], a fairly rare trait that is unique to the mages of [[agartha-la|LA Agartha]] and a few other independent mages.(([[http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf|Dominions 6 Manual, 40.]]))

Many undead creatures, such as ??Longdead??, are also [[inanimate]]; in these cases, they cannot benefit from ordinary [[regeneration]] such as from the bless of the same name or ??Mass Regeneration??. However, the [[bless]] Reforming Flesh is regeneration that works on all undead, including inanimate ones.(([[http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf|Dominions 6 Manual, 39.]]))

Several spells target undead specifically. For example, [[Holy|priests]] can use the ??Banishment?? [[Divine Magic|spells]] to harm them. Some [[Nature]] and [[Death]] spells also target the undead, such as ??The Ravenous Swarm?? and ??Control the Dead??, making this tag a weakness in some circumstances. However, being undead also synergizes with other spells like ??Rigor Mortis??.(([[http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf|Dominions 6 Manual, 40.]]))

Undead can only be led by commanders with [[Undead Leadership]]. Undead are considered separate from regular units (and from [[Magic Being|magic beings]]), so a commander with 100 Leadership and 50 Undead Leadership can lead 100 ordinary troops and 50 undead simultaneously. Non-mindless undead can be combined into squads with regular units, but cause a -1 [[Morale]] penalty for the regular units. (([[http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf|Dominions 6 Manual, 40.]]))

Undead and [[demon|demons]] share the need for undead leadership, but are otherwise distinct categories of creatures.