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[Laserhead]

If I kill my necromancer king consort and he comes back as a ghost, I wonder if that ghost will raise the dead...

[Pullarius]

I would just keep him for training your military up or try raising dead things and sending them at goblins with airlock drawbridges.

[Laserhead]

I've already got two other invader necromancers for military training (who are actually better for it because they can be caged).

[Bavette]

You got a necromancer king consort?! Well, my good man, make him into a vampire. That way you can use him to animate infinite hordes of goblins and use them against each other (undead don't attack vampires, I think).

[Lida_Brainbroken]

You got a necromancer king consort?! Well, my good man, make him into a vampire. That way you can use him to animate infinite hordes of goblins and use them against each other (undead don't attack vampires, I think).

Undead don't attack the necromancers who raised them.  Also, being a member of the society, I doubt the zombies would attack his dorfs either.

[MrSparky]

You got a necromancer king consort?! Well, my good man, make him into a vampire. That way you can use him to animate infinite hordes of goblins and use them against each other (undead don't attack vampires, I think).

Undead don't attack the necromancers who raised them.  Also, being a member of the society, I doubt the zombies would attack his dorfs either.

Zombies attack all living beings. Necromancers are not living, that's why they don't get attacked by zombies.

[i2amroy]

You got a necromancer king consort?! Well, my good man, make him into a vampire. That way you can use him to animate infinite hordes of goblins and use them against each other (undead don't attack vampires, I think).

Undead don't attack the necromancers who raised them.  Also, being a member of the society, I doubt the zombies would attack his dorfs either.

Zombies attack all living beings. Necromancers are not living, that's why they don't get attacked by zombies.

Non-necromancer/vampire dwarves, on the other hand are living and will be attacked by any zombies that see them.

[Trif]

To answer the original question, interactions don't carry over to ghosts. It used to happen with blood-sucking vampire ghosts, but Toady fixed it.

[MrSparky]

You got a necromancer king consort?! Well, my good man, make him into a vampire. That way you can use him to animate infinite hordes of goblins and use them against each other (undead don't attack vampires, I think).

Undead don't attack the necromancers who raised them.  Also, being a member of the society, I doubt the zombies would attack his dorfs either.

Zombies attack all living beings. Necromancers are not living, that's why they don't get attacked by zombies.

Non-necromancer/vampire dwarves, on the other hand are living and will be attacked by any zombies that see them.

Exactly.

[fractalman]

vampires are night creatures and will not be attacked by undead. 

[Hamiltonz]

I see an automatic vampire detector being built using the fact that zombies don't attack other undead.  I wonder, does this mean that the vampire dwarf also doesn't run away from zombies behind glass walls?  It seems that all one needs to do is designate a warren the other side of a 'caged' zombie.  Those dwarves that make it to the warren are 'delt with' in an appropriate maner.

[Asra]

This actually makes me wonder about the usefulness of having undead defenders with a vampire militia, even with the thirst slowdown it might be pretty good. Especially if the undead are never a problem for them.

[RenoFox]

This actually makes me wonder about the usefulness of having undead defenders with a vampire militia, even with the thirst slowdown it might be pretty good. Especially if the undead are never a problem for them.

I never thought about that! I've just put my vampires in small fortifications in front of my fortress so they'd absorb enemy fire before my living dwarves move out.

[Bavette]

You have a king necromancer living in your fort! You have to make an army of vampires backed up by hundreds of zombies. Make the queen into a vampire and long live the queen and her consort.

[Asra]

You could cycle peasants in through a side door so you could siphon them between "future vampires" and "future vampire chow".