Skeleton

Animated human skeletons have been used as a personification of death in Western culture since the Middle Ages, a personification perhaps influenced by the valley of the dry bones in the Book of Ezekiel. In reality, such skeletons are a type of undead known as “risen”. The Risen are undead that are animated by necromantic magicks. They do not have wills of their own or their own minds. They simply follow the orders of the one that raised them. In the case of skeletons, they are generally used as basic fighting units. They have little endurance as, whatever would break bones, breaks them. They also require little death magic to raise and animate them when compared to even zombies. When the Night Stalker, Absinthe Van Gothen, went to the Oregon Museum, Evelyn Addams used her death magicks to raise the skeletons of the museum, animal and human. She discovered that even fossils could be animated this way, having had some sort of closeness to the original bones. Abby again fought such skeletons in the Shanghai Tunnels as those Risen were raised by the vampire necromancers of Lord Ivor.