The ever-popular zombie comes into being through one of four methods… none of which is especially pleasant:

• A mage can displace a living person’s mind and soul with a ghost (Mind 5/ Spirit 4); or…

• Turn a corpse into a living Fetish driven by a ghost (Spirit 4/ Matter 2/ Prime 2); or…

• Kill the person, lock her mind inside the corpse, and command the body till it falls apart (Mind 5/ Life 4/ Matter 2/ Prime 2); or…

• Destroy the living person’s soul and then invite a ghost to take up residence (Spirit 5/ Life 4/ Prime 2).

Unless the necromancer makes such Effects permanent, the zombie collapses and “expires” at the end of the feat’s Duration.

In all cases, the walking dead thing is subject to rot as described above, and makes a lousy dinner companion.