Half-Dead

Physical Attributes
Half-Dead are appear to be humans slowly succumbing to the decay of death. They passively leech the life out of living creatures around them, leaving a wake of death behind them wherever they go. They also seem to need to actively drain the life out of living creatures to sustain their cursed existence.

Culture and Religion
Half-Dead are secretive and insular creatures. If they have a culture or religion it is unknown to outsiders.

History
Half-Dead are the spell caster ruling class of fallen Neibblelung. In ID 7462 a curse of undeath swept across Neibblelung, killing most of the people there. By some quirk of the curse, those that had interacted extensively with Aether or Kysim were spared instant death. The human spell casters were instead transformed into Half-Dead.

Half-Dead rarely leave the confines of the cursed lands of Neibblelung, but when they do they are often seeking human prey to prolong their lives. Occasionally they lead vast hordes of the mindless dead against the living, but they have always been defeated by the Knights of St Conrad or the Gremlins of Oldenberg.