Assorted Kierothrax/Black Flame Notes

Basic timeline is thus:

Volcano island has voodoo doctors who can raise mindless zombies (pretty useless except for being scary and very basic manual labor) and hypnotize/drug living victims into living voodoo “zombies.”

Dragon shows up and causes trouble, stealing the mythos of the volcano as a realm of the dead/gateway to the underworld.

Dragon builds on existing legend, being able to steal soul-dollars for his own vile intentions. Figures out(/is granted by faith) a way to get them into dead bodies.

Voodoo doctors re-purpose rituals to follow their god's new “revealed path,” allowing control of hostile souls. These are noticeably more useful than the truly mindless undead, but much less useful than aware undead.

So to summarize: raising the corpses requires a ritual. entrancing living or dead requires a ritual.

Putting a soul into an animated body requires an act of will (from Kiero) or a ritual (by his priests)