Talk:Undead/@comment-4032497-20190925005414/@comment-31664784-20190925174220

You also have to consider life don't have an HP system IRL where people just spontaneosly die after a certain threshold. Anyone branded with the darksign (which just randomly pops up on people as the Fire begins to fade) could have "died" and begun the hollowing process without even realizing. Because the only "cure" to the darksign is for the First Flame to get linked, human civilization is doomed to suffer unstoppable outbreaks until there are more undead than living; at which point the living are either killed, flee, or eventually become branded themeselves.