Re: Evil Opposition to undead?
Imagine an old civilization on a continent poor on metals. Their technology is - breeding. Their personal weapons are organic, their heavy weapons are war animals. To them, life is both a means and an end. Life is what's right and natural. Unfortunately, they also believe in "natural selection", i.e. in the Nazi sense of the concept. Undead are the stuff of frightening tales for them, but if they existed, they'd be an abomination to be mercilessly destroyed.
On the other hand, on another continent, you have a classic fantasy civilization, with magic that can create undead. They are an exception to the rule that everything living eventually dies, yes, but magic is part of what's natural. Nothing to write home about. And this civilization is mercantile and multipolar: competition is OK, limited wars are somewhat acceptable, but conquest and utter subjugation are things of the evil empires, which were fortunately defeated long ago.
Nothing good can come if these two civilizations suddenly come into contact, and the latter would certainly see the former as both evil and rabidly opposed to the undead.
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