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Zomrades are the worshippers of the Kureiji, the corpse goddess of the Indo Pantheon who was once dead and twice lived, much like her own people. The zomrades are a people of an intense liveliness despite the majority of their population being composed of the dead, their intense passion and curiosity driving their pale limbs forward to greater and greater heights. This great passion is also their greatest bane for a zomrade is quick to become manic and obsessive in their pursuits, unable to shake the gnawing feelings of want and roaring passion.
While the phenotype of a zomrade is dependent on the pieces that they were revived using, the natural born living population of /zomb/ are known as Olivians. Olivians tend toward stark pale white skin and bright red hair with eyes to match, it is uncommon but other eye colors such as green and yellow can appear in their population. Zomrade clothing is typically gothic and victorian in nature and much of the architecture within the Deadlands reflect this with pointed arches, flying buttresses, and macabre stone decorations on sprawling cathedrals risen in the name of their corpse queen.
A zomrade begins life as an Olivian born to living parents however the first life of an Olivian will be lived with their eventual death fresh in their mind. Olivians are eager to seek out and experience as much as they can, exploring new interests at a whim and making connections wherever they might be made. Within zomrade society Olivians are considered almost like children for the entirety of their lives however they're also treated with an air of reverence. They're young, immature, and often ignorant when compared to their zoombie elders, however the vibrancy of the youthful living is respected and few laws are put in place to restrict Olivians from pursuing their desires. Olivians have a natural lifespan of around 60 to 80 years however most end up tragically dying young while exploring their eccentric interests and studies, ignoring risks for the sake of their curiosity and taking chances ignoring possible consequences. After their death, the family and friends of the Olivian gather up items and symbols that represent the lives that they lived, these objects are said to be the vessels of the soul and are integral to the revival process. Depending on the damage done to the body upon death there may be limbs that require stitching back together and after hundreds of years of doing this process zomrades have gained a reputation for being able to prepare bodies of the dead with an artist's touch, the appearance of an undead while strange and morbid is usually not hideous to look at. Once the body has been prepared and the items of their past life stitched into their flesh, a ritual involving /zomb/ chuubanite occurs which rises the Olivian back to life as a zoombie. Some speculate that instead of specifically reviving the Olivian from death, it instead remakes the concept of their soul or personality using the relation of the Olivian's flesh and their personal items to remake them.
Some take new names upon being revived while others cling to their previous lives and continue their business. Once revived as a zoombie, the zomrade has two ages: a young age and a true age. The status of a zomrade in their society is dependent on their true age with the eldest of the zoombies acting as the governing party of zomrade society. Zoombies still have most of the functions they had in their first life however there are some consistent noticeable changes, senses such as pain are significantly dimmed and they're prone to fits of sudden drama even more so than their previous lives. For a zoombie, dullness and boredom are their greatest enemy, a lack of passion gradually erodes their spirits and slowly begins to rot the connection between the soul and the body and further degrading their senses and connection to their bodies, eventually resulting in the literal rotting and decomposition of their flesh.
