Mummies

It took a long, long time, literally ages for mummies to become part of the civilized societies of Lantartia. And even scholars seems confused when trying to explain why. For some, they could only have become (or stayed, some might say) as monsters. Others would attest that they should have be the first civilization ever. Maybe they have been and then lost faith in other, newer peoples, or lost the capacity to organize themselves and engage in diplomacy or, even, war. Although that’s changed since a few eras, mummy history goes so far back that even their oldest temples and dwellings fail to present records that could clarify those points.
Several theories dispute ground about how the first mummies came about. There are scrolls linking them to mysterious “proto liches”, that could have been the source or result of undead cults in forgotten eras of older Eons.
What is clearly known is that mummies are traditionally linked to stalwart and zealous protection of items and knowledge, which is sacred to them. And, sometimes, acquiring preciosities from the living or even culling them of the worst among them is a necessary purge, even though it may hurt (them). If this came to be against (human?) greed, collecting madness, drive for power or survival, no one seems to know.
The fact that mummy cultures tend to disregard or distrust the living and that being involved in diplomacy and other of their issues is quite knew in their history gave rise to hypothesis that hey may be related to the thanatolians in some way. They seem to share a mindset that life is messy because it's an unstable and impure trait. That extends to judging the living and their institutions. Only undeath can be truly pure, virtuous and rational. But such views are not openly shared in negotiations with other peoples, or at all. The Counties of Lisbrannia, whose mummy population is the largest known, clearly dismisses all of this as unjust rumors.

Profile Highlights: (Undead)

Focused: curses, relics;
Hoarding;
Knowledge focused: religion;
Traditional;
Undead;
Zealous.

Lifespan

Until killed.