Undeath

Undeath or rather the topic of what happens to the soul and corporeal remains of the deceased is a subject of much debate amongst many scholars and clergy, it is well-known fact that after a person is buried or has their body cleansed the soul leaves the body, but there is some debate about whether or not it is the soul in its entirety and thereby the deceased individual who is resurrected or forced to return to their body when they become of the undead. Even the term undead is not entirely well defined, but the most general consensus amongst the clergy and elven texts define various states of undeath as follows.

Living dead:

the dead who still possess a soul is referred to as the living dead, with the school of thought postulating that it is the entirety or at least having most of one's soul that gives them free will and the ability to act and reason as they did before death. Such a state of undeath is relatively rare, and is believed to be impossible to achieve with necromancy, but can be done by the gods.

The Unliving:

The Unliving are to an extend natural phenomena believed to originate from when Kanar broke the bridge between the living and the dead to perform his foul necromancy. Thus those who do not wish for some reason cannot pass on to the next realm, become the Unliving, or as most people know them, ghost, spectral after images of the living, souls twisted and corrupted from partially passing on and yet remaining.

The undead.

Those who have been forced back to life by necromancy, or corpses brought back as they were left unburied in a field of death. It is highly contested if such undead is aware or not, or just how much of their soul remains in them. But most clergies believe that they are in great pain, based on what can be gleamed from communicating with their dead who have suffered such a fate.