Undead Empire

## Known Incursions

* Incursion (New Earth)
* Incursion (Ensolus)

## The Multiversal Faction

The Undead Empire has A-Grade old monsters holding the fort and potentially even stronger beings. **Chapter 266**

The Undead Empire was a terrifying existence, and Zac suspected they had at least a dozen Supremacies from what he’d gathered. **Chapter 827**

The Undead Empire was one of the largest factions of the Multiverse from what Zac had gathered, but it was only so big compared to the endlessness of the Multiverse itself. There were probably numerous sectors and dimensions where they had no presence at all, and going there as an undead was dangerous. **Chapter 713**

### Structure

Based on information revealed in **Chapter 683** the structure of the Undying Empire seems to be as follows:

* Primo (A grade)
* Undead Heartlands
	+ Undead Princes (A grades)
	+ Peak Undead Kingdoms
* Undead Kingdoms which are always led by B grades
* Undead Provinces which are always led by C grades

Having an Autarch, even if one at the lowest rung, was enough to be considered a Middle-tier clan in the Heartlands. That probably meant a low-tier clan had Divine Monarchs and powerful accumulations, and forces beneath that weren’t even considered proper clans. This likely means that a peak-stage Clan in the Undead Empire might not even have A-grade cultivators going by the grading of Clan Sharva’Zi (a middling Clan with a One Step Autarch), or at least not too many A graders. Autarch's are the main power of any empire since those above rarely make a move (**Chapter 716**).

### The Imperial Commandments

1. The first one is cohesion. Undead Kingdoms cannot go to war against each other. Skirmishes for unclaimed resources and [territory] are okay, but full-scale wars are banned. **Chapter 471**
2. The second commandment is the Commandment of Conquest. All the Kingdoms of the Empire have a quota to expand, and no one is allowed to hinder a crusade. **Chapter 471**

Zac suspected the ban on cultivating Pure Death or Oblivion was related to the commandments. The notion was born when he created **[**Adaptive Symbiosis**]**, where his bond with Haro was formed through and reinforced by the Dao of Life. The commandments could very well work the same way.

Perhaps those who cultivated Pure Death or Oblivion could ignore the commandments, or possibly even influence those under its bindings. The commandments were the Primo's tool to control his empire, and he wasn't a benevolent ruler based on his eternal war. Such an old monster wouldn't cede his authority without good reason. **Ch 1,139**

### Internal Politics

The five noble races of the Undead Empire are in competition with each other. Not shying away from killing each other.

* Uona suspected Arcaz could be a lineal descendant from the Abyssal Shores but wanted to force her way. **Chapter 733**
* The Eidolon withdrew their support on the battelfield to the disadvantage of the Eternal Clan: "Truth is relative. We cannot let it be subject to the whims of the accuser," Uona sneered. "Isn't that what the Grand Speaker of Hive Yso said when your ilk suddenly drew back on the battlefield, causing one Autarch to be crippled and over fifty Peak Monarchs to fall among the Eternal Clan? Who's to say what really happened here?" **Chapter 772**
* Reyna wants to hide Arcaz status as an outsider of the Empire: “First of all, these matters don’t leave this room. If one of the other factions learns of this matter, they might hunt him down to prevent our race from gaining this asset ...” **Chapter 790**
* Kaldor has no love for the other races: "Seems you've even killed some of those ghost bastards and a pureblood bloodsucker? Pretty gutsy. Is that why you're hiding in here even if you're a pureblood Draugr?" **Chapter 810**
* What did it matter if the vaunted An'Azol killed a few juniors if it improved the Empire's chances of accomplishing their goals inside the Left Imperial Palace? **Chapter 967**
* They called themselves the Divine Races but were essentially forced labour for the Cultivation Paradise of the Eternal 108. In return, the Primo returned some of the Death they accumulated, creating the Empire Heartlands. But the moment a race dared slack off, they'd find their quadrant gradually declining. **Ch 1,102**
* So it turned out the meeting between the three factions (Izh'Rak Reavers, Eidolon and Eternal Clan) wasn't just about the fifth pillar and the rise of the Draugr. It was about the very direction of the Empire. **Ch 1,102**

### Language

The Undead Empire has five official languages. I could not get all of them though. The fifth one is apparently only used by the higher-ups, and it's not for sale [at least via means accessible to Calrin]. **Chapter 272**

### Reaction to the Darkness

“The Founders and the Undead Princes searched the whole universe for pockets of energies that could sustain us, but over 95% of our population succumbed before we found the Heartlands. Since then there’s been a standing order to realign the universe, because if the whole Multiverse is death-attuned we’ll never be without a lifeline again. So we will never stop expanding.” **Chapter 471**

## Undead Races

### The Five Noble/Divine Races

"Well, I do only retain a fraction of my memories in this form, so I do not remember all the details. But simply put you are a purebred undead, uniquely suited for miasmic cultivation." **Chapter 247**

“As far as I’ve understood it. The five races have a natural connection with Miasma that other undead do not have, and their bloodlines are almost considered holy. If you walked into the capital of some planet in the Undead Empire many of the young lasses wouldn’t hesitate to procreate with you"

I’ve heard the elders of the five races aren’t big fans of their genes being wantonly spread throughout the Empire. They rely on their superior lineages so that they can maintain their power. They have built up great advantages and heritages over millions of years with the help of their natural endowments, and don’t want it spread into the public" **Chapter 247**

The four races, minus the Founders, were put in charge of four cardinal directions. The Reavers are focusing on other fronts while this Sector and Zecia are technically part of the Draugr Domains, though that’s naturally contested by the living. However, smaller clans sometimes send delegates to the frontier sectors to make some money. **Chapter 713**

All their heritages are incomplete, except for the bloodsuckers (Eternal Clan) who joined later. Finding someone like Zac might mean the Draugr can reclaim something they had lost, though the odds are minuscule. He could use that as a bargaining chip (when joining the Empire). **Chapter 827**

Only the Founders among the Five Races had any contact with the Limitless Empire before the System was born. **Chapter 985**

### Members of the 5 Races

* Founders
* Draugr
* Izh’Rak Reavers
* Eidolon
* Eternal Clan

## Turned Undead

A Zombie is a derogatory term for those who still haven’t awakened. **Bk 5**

Zombies would essentially rise by themselves sooner or later as long as corpses were left in deathly energies strong enough. However, the key was to infuse them with a “seed of sapience”, which would help them awaken far quicker while also binding them to their progenitor. **Chapter 667**

### Progeny

“Almost all undead are turned species. For example, humans who have died and been infused with miasma. They are not pure undead since their original bodies were not meant for that sort of cultivation. Even their progeny who are born undead are afflicted with the same problem.

... The undead can have children? ...

... not until they reach late E-grade and have awakened their bodies [to D-Grade]." **Chapter 247**

### Turned Undead Races

* Corpse Lords and Corpse Lord Nobles
* Revenants
* Wraiths and Spectres

## Cultivation

### Limitations

"However, the undead are special in that some can change their races to a certain degree, though supreme existences such as Lord Draugr does not need such things.” **Chapter 432**

"In any case, this mismatch with miasma slows down cultivation [in Turned Undead] and makes it far harder to break through the bottlenecks. In return, the undead has generally higher attributes and they live longer before they turn insane. So if an undead manages to break through its shackles it will likely be stronger than a human on average” **Chapter 249**

The undead were one exception to the rule of one aging physically and losing attributes as the body degraded due to age at the end of your lifespan. They instead became stronger as they lost their sanity due to the degradation in their minds. **Chapter 323**

### Awakening

"The bodies of low-tiered undead are essentially just vessels for the ichor and death-attuned soul. So they wouldn't regenerate by themselves but as mentioned in the story their bodies gradually awaken, which would include the state of their bodies restoring ... I figure there would be rituals or medicinal baths they would be able to use to restore their bodies even before then."

"It was as though his Undead form had put a damper on all his feelings. They were still there somewhat, but there was a sense of disconnect with them. He briefly wondered if this was the case with all undead who had evolved to regain intelligence. Perhaps it was necessary, as the zombies had an inherent bloodlust. It would be impossible to build a society if the higher undead couldn’t control their urges, so the unfeeling state might be a result of evolution." **Chapter 206**

"Almost all the undead living in the kingdom were too low-tiered to eat and drink, so they looked elsewhere to find the satisfaction a good meal could bring. Many enjoyed complex fragrances and most households created their own incense or potpourri." **Chapter 435**

"... the Undead used various methods of improving races. For example, they created incense sticks using herbs, where the composition depended on what race the original body was." **Chapter 516**

He already knew that most undead had some trouble adjusting to this new state of being, which sometimes resulted in unwanted physical responses. After all, low-tier undead were essentially energy beings that used an unliving body as a receptacle for their souls and ichor. Zac had simply figured that this period of acclimatization wouldn't happen to him since he was more used to having a living breathing body than not. **Chapter 697**

### Dao

“Have you ever heard of undead cultivating life attuned classes or Daos?”

“No, never. It is almost impossible. Our affinities with those types of Daos are essentially non-existent. Why would you spend centuries on attaining a life-aspected Dao Seed when you can gain a Death Aspected one in a few months?” **Chapter 541**

### The Three Great Arts

The spellcasters of the undead armies generally followed three heritages.

* Poison Masters such as the lich in his squad, using toxins to cause widespread death.
* Ice-attuned Mages who fused death and frost into extremely potent attacks that turned enemies into frozen statues.
* Soul Manipulators who used mental attacks, curses, and illusions.

However, these specialists were extremely rare and usually required inborn affinities, sort of like the purifiers on earth. There were certainly more classes, but these three were the most common, at least in this kingdom. Zac had thought it had something to do with affinities, but the reason was a lot more pragmatic. The spellcasters of the undead armies leaned toward classes that would leave the corpses of their enemies intact." **Chapter 433**

### Beast taming

The alternative to using beast parts body repurposing was to turn them into undead beasts and enter contracts with them. Apparently, more than a few clans in the Undead Empire went this route since you could consider it a branch of Soul Cultivation. However, beast taming wasn't very popular among the Divine Races since they had their own heritages. **Chapter 895**

### Alchemy

It was almost impossible for an Undead to create pills that could be used for the living. After all, the foundation of their pills would be made with Miasma rather than Cosmic Energy, which would leave an indelible core of Death within. For the undead, that energy would simply bolster the effect of the pills. For the living, taking the pill would be akin to inviting Death. A few might be fine, but any more, and they'd face the same situation as the cultivators who had stayed within the Dead Zone too long. **Ch 1,114**

## The Eternal Slumber

"The undead aren’t immortal, though they don’t grow old. They instead go insane, their bloodlust overtaking everything else. Finally, they turn too stupid to even move, withering in place into goops of miasma. Quite disgusting." **Chapter 206**

## Gray Zones

Places where the living and dead intermingle despite it not being allowed by the Empire, this may likely continue because said undead are not part of the Empire. **Chapter 473**

* Atwood Empire

### Former Grey Zones

* Twilight Harbor

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