Undead

"' A curse, a curse upon this world! God is testing us my children, do not be led astray! Although they may share the faces of our loved ones, you must NOT go to them...for they are of the devil!' - Cardinal Gabriel"

The Mass Return
It's unclear why this is happening. It's not known how it all started. It just is, and it's known that it wasn't like this before....people who have died are back. But their not the same. Their bodies renaimated, they shamble around and bleed, rotten flesh falling off and revealing the bones underneath.

It isn't always happening. Only sometimes, it seems.

The Church has started to seal tombs with stone and hot wax, in case it happens again. Theories run amuck, some blaming the devil...and some blaming a disease that they lack a understanding of.

Tales of witches, tales of darkness, tales of Old Gods and biological warfare from invading armies. Nobody can say for sure why this happens.

Some rumors say Necromancy, an twisted form of magic that is tied to the old gods...is to blame. But nothing concrete has ever been decided, as anyone who'd meet a Necromancer to question them...would surely not survive the encounter.

Or they'd survive, in all the wrong ways.