Heya — yes, correct, the undead in the forest were burned former soldiers.
There's a guideline to how the dead retain their awareness or don't, but Wei Wuxian has only met one 'type' of undead with clear cognition so far (I'm excluding the dead Hermione and Anakin encounter because their 'cause', which I think is what you call 'curse,' hasn't been revealed yet). It will probably make more sense once he has more undead encounters!
If an undead is of the enslaved type (lacking real awareness), it's a kindness to kill them. They can be sometimes recovered if you expose them to one of the mirrors that absorbs negative energy/fear or to Five but it's questionable whether that's doing them a kindness.
Yes, you can rig the undead witches! They will probably be grateful, though unfortunately it will never fully soothe them. They're haunted by that pain, basically :(
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There's a guideline to how the dead retain their awareness or don't, but Wei Wuxian has only met one 'type' of undead with clear cognition so far (I'm excluding the dead Hermione and Anakin encounter because their 'cause', which I think is what you call 'curse,' hasn't been revealed yet). It will probably make more sense once he has more undead encounters!
If an undead is of the enslaved type (lacking real awareness), it's a kindness to kill them. They can be sometimes recovered if you expose them to one of the mirrors that absorbs negative energy/fear
or to Fivebut it's questionable whether that's doing them a kindness.Yes, you can rig the undead witches! They will probably be grateful, though unfortunately it will never fully soothe them. They're haunted by that pain, basically :(