Roving Cult Dead

The roving cult dead is what remains when a zealot dies before the final word of a rite is spoken. In the Catacombs of Calathis, these corpses do not simply rise to kill. They search. They listen at chamber doors. They gather survivors by scent, then attempt to shepherd the living toward altars, seal chambers, or sacrificial spaces where the cult once expected completion. Some carry fragments of memory in their decayed fingers, tapping altar stones in the exact rhythm of the rite they failed to finish.