Voodoo Slave

Name	Voodoo Slave
Race	Human
Type	Victim
Faction	Varied
Premiere	Desideratum: Blood Bonds
Relative(s)	None Applicable

The English word “zombie” was first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of “zombie”. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the word's origin as West African and compares it to the Kongo words nzambi (god) and zumbi (fetish). A Kimbundu-to-Portuguese dictionary from 1903 defines the related word nzumbi as soul, while a later Kimbundu–Portuguese dictionary defines it as being a “spirit that is supposed to wander the earth to torment the living”. And oftentimes, the zombie will be an undead corpse that wanders about looking for flesh or brains, but not all zombies work this way. Powerful voodoo practitioners can use their spells and materials to create a living zombie. Virtually mindless, these people have their souls in possession of the caster. It works similarly to the Mind Control spell listed in Eleanora Blackwood’s Book of Shadows. These victims will follow the commands of their master, regardless the order because they walk about almost in a fugue state. Absinthe Van Gothen fought voodoo slaves when she went to Lone Fir Cemetery to aid the Night Stalkers, Arion and Ayana Bishop, against the voodoo witch, Heloise Laveau.