Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10324940-20130602034026/@comment-18016240-20130915010259

The Undead condition is pretty odd, ain't it?

From what little I can gather, it doesn't seem like there's a surefire way or explanation to becoming undead or finding out if you're undead. (without dying of course) From what can be gathered it might be a hereditary condition (assuming that the undead can reproduce, I don't see why they wouldn't so long as they retained their humanity) or it could be recieved like a blessing or curse as with Solaire's (apparent) case. Other than that all we know about it is that the curse of undeath seems to have originated around the same time as Gwyn decided to link the fires.

It seems like the Undead may outnumber the "living" humans after all, Balder is stated to have gone almost totally undead (gleamed from item descriptions) and Berenike didn't seem to be fairing any better given if certain lore videos and encounters with Berenikian knights are to be believed. Though it is currently unknown what the statistics are in the other nations.