Undead Armies
"There are concerns of the nature of fighting an undead host. You don't really defeat an undead army as much as utterly destroy them in the hopes they don't pick themselves up again, and take our casualties with them." -Curdan General on Undead Armies

Necromancery is considered a magical art thought to originate with the Kerks, whose mastery of it during their pagan years was not a strong interest compared to curses and evocation. In Kerkian tradition, undead are sentient and respected parts of their society, guarding the Kycer and their holy priests. Yet, when the art became known to the Curdan mages, they saw something considerably different, a 'perfect' soldier who needed no food, drink, and would carry and fight without complaint. The dark thoughts of rebellion was said to stir when the first necromancers showed off their undead servants during the magical gatherings, seeing how a single undead soldier could equal and outperform even the most bloodthirsty of Curdan warriors. It was thus quite commonplace for the Lichery rebels to begin building their armies by gathering corpses and broken armor, and building their undead armies in secret, a process which would take many, many years.

At first, many consider the undead soldiers an indomitable force when they marched through Remosia and crushed local garrisons and armies arrayed against them. The undead performed their job as front line soldiers while acolytes and liches lobbed spells from behind. The effect was seen to destroy armies as well as cities, producing more soldiery for the liches to exploit. Undead soldiers had many utility benefits that the liches desired in their armies, but the will and magic needed to sustain them became more and more burdensome. Necromancers normally needed considerable time and energy to get undead to be 'independent' from their own magical will, and undead could usually only perform certain tasks when not fully sentient. Sentient undead needed their original soul and thus often came back as screaming, confused, and mortified creatures who quickly ended themselves, thus a false soul was needed to make the monsters automated.

Despite their use of building armies, liches could not rely fully on an undead host forever. Liches and necromancers in great numbers were needed to command and coordinate the undead hosts, and this was easier said than done. Liches found it hard to manage logistics, thus undead soldiers would go to battle in rotting and barely held together armor and weapons, and the enemy mages fielded against them often tried to use dispelling magic to devastate an entire division of undead forces. Worse yet, when the master of an undead creature dies, so does that undead creature. It became quite a problem for the Lichery rebels for their older and experienced acolytes to suddenly pass on, and with them their entire undead army ceasing to exist. Most undead who became sentient still wander Remosia to some degree, although keeping to ruins and caves where they had been built in, guarding the secrets of their far away masters.