Editing Zombie (section)

=IRL zombies=
The origin for the term, if not one of the modern concepts, can be found in various African and Haitian Voudou stories and religious practices; the zombie (or "zombi") is created by administering a potion that places its drinker into a state of near-death, where they obey the commands of whoever made the potion. In Voudou practices, zombies are created using a powdery substance created from pufferfish poison that renders the victim into a near-death paralyzed state, effectively making them look "dead" for a long period of time. Of course, this "zombie powder" is obviously impractical for coercing servitude from the heavily paralyzed victim, unless the only command you want to give them is "play dead"-- which is why once the victim is revived from the paralysis using different drugs (based off the ''Datura'' genus of hallucinogenic plants) are used to convince them that they really died and are now no longer fully human. If anything, [[ghoul]]s and other similar undead likely served as the basis for the "original" fictional zombies.

The [[Servitor]]s are conceptually based on this style of zombie, augmented with cyborg body parts.<!--unsure if true-->