Withered men (Layered Lands)

Living skeletons, ancient humans with bony exoskeletons from eating nether quartz and nether warts. They craft elaborate fortresses to grow mushrooms and craft stone swords dipped in poison.
Their defender is the wither, made from corpse sand and skulls. They assemble this grim guardian in times of peril, its power derived from the nether star.
Wither containment and disposal: The Dalmer lock withers in blast proof rooms lined with autocannons to kill the wither as fast as possible and harvest the star.
In short, a wither is an amalgamation of hundreds of dead withered men.
Wither rose, nether wart and nether quartz cause exoskeletification.
The Dalmer mass produced disassembled withers, and harvested wither men for skulls and corpse sand. The skeletons fought back by activating all the disassembled withers, creating chaos and death. The dalmer kept collecting stars for beacons and their own used however.
The Dalmer escaped the nether to flee the wither they had summoned
nether stars make beacons 
Strongholds were built deep underground to escape the wither
The wither is summoned by soul sand/corpse sand and withered skulls
Nether fortresses built by explorers with supply chests.
In the nether, burials in the sand gives soul sand and wither skeletons that defend the fortresses.
To resurrect people, they use soul sand and wither skulls
the Dalmer use magic to go to the end, and allied themselves with witches.
For tampering with life, the wither destroys all the above ground society and raised the dead. The Dalmer used the portal to escape but were enslaved by the dragon, due to a mistake sending them to the end instead where they were stranded.
In the end, the wither 	became a human, giving back life to the last remaining soul.
The Dalmer buried their dead with valuables and believed in the afterlife.
The Dalmer wanted the nether star that is created when a wither is summoned to power their beacons. Beacons provide buffs of speed, strength, endurance, agility and health in a large field around it.
The wither men spawn blazes and weaponize them through rods.
Do the wither men trade rods with the end men to create portals to each other?
Summoning the wither caused the Withered Mens curse.
Withers all go insane in the end.
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