Shia's Dead

Undeath, as caused by Shia, has two primary causes: Being chosen to be revived, or some part of the process of death having gone wrong. In either case, the person is thus considered to be undead, and thus, Shia's Dead. There was, at one point, thought to be events where both people and animals could spontaneously become undead though the mechanism for such still remains unknown to this day. It is thought that the ascension of Shia put a stop to this.   To be chosen to be revived, as a ghost one must barter for their life with the gods of life and death, generally the latter. This can also be done on one's behalf by family or a loved one, as long as the deceased's ghost has not yet crossed over to Limbo. Should the gods accept the barter, the ghost is returned to the body and revived, permanently stuck in the state the divine have raised them. While still extraordinarily rare, it is the most common cause of one becoming undead in the modern age.   If something was to go wrong in the process of death, however, the gods may choose to make a person undead regardless in order to sort out the problem. These events are extremely rare and poorly understood, with any information about how one can die 'incorrectly' highly protected by both the Cult of Life and Shia's Cult. It is widely believed that the overwhelming majority of such cases are persons who were not intended to die at that point in their lives by fate, yet somehow did regardless. Rarer still are individual who claim that they were supposed to have died according to fate, but survived regardless, and were spared by Mora. Although not confirmed by the pantheon, it is likely that both paths are true, and both are considered undead.

All Shia's Dead exhibit a variety of shared symptoms or conditions amongst one another, caused by their revivals.   All members of the group, be they person or animal, have blank white eyes, said to be scarred by returning from Limbo or passed the veil of death. These changes to the eyes are assumed to be identical to the Shia's Mark / Mark of Mora, only differing in location.   Additionally, those who have been revived are in the same state their body was upon revival. Very rarely do the gods intervene and make repairs to the body prior to revival, though one notable case of such was Benjamen Stridde, due to much of his body having been damaged by fish. His was restored to prior to his death, though likely due to Shia's own need of him in maintaining his duties. This can have a variety of affects on a person, as the majority of those revived are still prone to the issues caused of a dead body after being revived, such as the effects of mild decomposition, skin slippage, hair loss, or unpleasant smell and bacterias present on the body.