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This occurred to me while reading NEW WORLD BUILDERS...
Undead are usually reanimated corpses, i.e. formerly living bodies. They typically exist without souls and sometimes lack even basic sentience. Isekaid people (IPs) seem quite different, in that most are formerly living souls. The soul, spirit, and/or consciousness of an IP has literally died and then gone on to inhabit a new living body in a new world.
But though their bodies are undoubtedly alive, the soul of an IP is quite like a ghost: a formerly living spirit that continues to exist past death in the material world. And ghosts can be "turned" by clerics, priests, paladins and other holy types - at least per D&D rules.
Would be fun to write an isekai about a world in which a flood of isekaid undead "heroes" constantly appear from other worlds (cue truck-kun montage) and must be battled by the god-fearing local residents. A plague of well-intentioned teenage vampires with cheat skills and legendary swords, basically.
Undead are usually reanimated corpses, i.e. formerly living bodies. They typically exist without souls and sometimes lack even basic sentience. Isekaid people (IPs) seem quite different, in that most are formerly living souls. The soul, spirit, and/or consciousness of an IP has literally died and then gone on to inhabit a new living body in a new world.
But though their bodies are undoubtedly alive, the soul of an IP is quite like a ghost: a formerly living spirit that continues to exist past death in the material world. And ghosts can be "turned" by clerics, priests, paladins and other holy types - at least per D&D rules.
Would be fun to write an isekai about a world in which a flood of isekaid undead "heroes" constantly appear from other worlds (cue truck-kun montage) and must be battled by the god-fearing local residents. A plague of well-intentioned teenage vampires with cheat skills and legendary swords, basically.