The Legions of the Dead
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An Army of the Undead is a truly terrifying sight. Many armies do not even wait to recieve the charge - they drop their weapons and run. The vision they see is an army of once proud and great warriors, being lead to do battle by their Lords and Champions, armed and ready for war. But the soldiers are already dead, the lines of infantry are a mass of decaying and rotting corpses, and the Skeletal legions of Death fight under the control of terrible spells, cast by the Necromancers. The Undead horde is battle-ready, and hungry. The army fights with with just one desire - to kill!
The Art of Necromancy
Necromancy is the most abhorrent of sorcery, and all who practise it are hated and feared in equal measure. In violation of natural law, Necromancers are able to use their power to defy death itself, extending their own lives virtually indefinitely. Invoking powers learnt from ancient tomes, they are able to make corpses clamber back to their feet, and skeletons claw their way up from ancient battle fields.
It takes great power and concentration in order to animate and sustain the dead, however, requiring many decades, even centuries, of study in order to be anywhere near competent. However, such devotion does have its rewards - the most powerful necromancers are able to raise armies numbering the tens of thousands, and are all but immortal.
Necromancy is a hateful and indiscriminate art, and when a sorcerer weaves the incantations of awakening, it will re-animate every dead creature nearby. In such a manner, the decomposing bodies of dogs, rats, birds and horses will inevitably be raised along with the corpses of warriors and long dead heroes. All are enslaved to the will of the necromancer.
While Undead armies are all but unstoppable in battle, the Necromancer is its lynchpin – destroy him and the entire army can collapse, like puppets with their strings suddenly cut.