Editing Zombie (section)

==Warhammer==
===Fantasy Battle===
Your standard issue mindless undead monster; reanimated corpses of (mostly) humans, little to no agency of their own, an insatiable urge to eat and kill people, can be killed by going for the head, yadda yadda. They're the blunt instrument that [[Necromancer]]s and [[Vampire Lord]]s use to wear down the enemy. And it works! Despite individual Zombies being barely effective, once a horde of them gets going, it's hard to stop them - desperate Necromancers will even replace worn down bits of their Zombies with rusty metal spikes, rotten wood buttresses, and so on, in a sort of fucked up medieval version of Pimp My Ride.

===Age of Sigmar===
For the briefest period of time at the very start of First Edition, for some godforsaken reason, GW decided to make Zombies a faction of their own - known as the Deadwalkers. Yes, that name means absolutely nothing. They were soon folded into the larger Legions of Nagash faction, and then later into the Soulblight Gravelords (both different iterations of nu-Vampire Counts).

The lore for the average grunt Zombie remains largely the same - although they are now referred to as Deadwalker Zombies. Yes, we know, it's dystopian, just keep calling them Zombies, it's fine. They're still aimless shambling corpses, although they have been known to pop up spontaneously in [[Shyish]], the realm of Death. This trend spread to the other realms after the Necroquake - most organised civilised settlements have found themselves forced to hire "pyre-gangs", mercenaries that hunt down and destroy epidemics before they can spread.

Interestingly enough there have been cases of Zombies (or "Deadwalkers", sorry GW) becoming leaders/heroes. The most notable and visually striking example is a creepy motherfucker called Gorslav the Gravekeeper, from the Cursed City setting. He's an emaciated, eyeless creature that looks like he walked straight out of a Guillermo del Toro movie. Although the extent of his sentience is debatable, he controls the graveyard of the city and controls all the Zombies within it - even creating new ones.

Another named Deadwalker character would be Nagash's very own Jester, an unnaturally spry and intelligent zombie named Blood-a-bones.

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