Quote Originally Posted by AndrewTall View Post
Hmm, in this world corporeal undead don't exist - if there was a chance that some foul spirit from the Shadow World would steal the body of your friend after they died, wouldn't you give them a clean, final ending? Would the religions not even demand it to prevent the body being so despoiled? Simple practicality suggests that one vampire plague would make cremation not just the norm, but mandatory...

It is worth remembering that despite all the guff about eternal truths many of the 'health and safety' aspects of religion are very mutable things - when such a religious law causes serious problems for the faithful it gets changed (it may take a few generations but a more 'rational' interpretation will emerge) - if as a regent half your population got butchered by a member of the Lost and their undead legions, would you just bury the dead for the next such lich to summon as his allies?

Kriesha has a bit of a problem with fire as written, but Laerme's faithful can be taught that fire is a harsh destructive force and Avani's that books burn in fire... The reverence of how the brutality of nature winnows out the weak could easily allow for fire-revering priests of Kriesha in Khinasi say - the Vos and Rjurik where she is strongest clearly see the wrath of nature in ice due to climate - and her faithful might dispose of the faithful by feeding them to wild life (sharks, vultures, etc) or the like.

As far as the undead legion warcard goes remember how dirt cheap it is - no GB cost, not even RP under the standard rules... The unit should be dirt-cheap cannon fodder as that is what you are paying for. The spell admittedly costs a reasonable sum - but is still cheap by comparison to similar super-elite units.
Burial in hallowed ground, and by religious ritual is the standard folklore in our world to prevent such a thing. There would likely be similar rituals making a properly buried corpse in consecrated ground immune to reanimation.