This isn't relevant to the discussion, but I've had an interesting idea.
We create a rapid-growing demonic, crimson weed, that naturally grows in the fungal forest. On its own, the weed acts as a medicinal painkiller that lowers its user's sense of reason and restraint. When the weed is burnt, it produces a large quantity of black smoke, that when inhaled, causes mortals to become extremely furious, and if enough is inhaled, causes them to go into an unstoppable berserk rage.
The ashes are a potent alchemical ingredient, useful for making mundane painkillers, disinfectants, and sleeping medicine, but that isn't the only use for the ashes. If a mage capable of manipulating Evil wants to, they can stuff a scarecrow or similar man-made organic structure with the ash, and with a pittance of Evil, awaken the ash's inner Evil. The ash will then possess the scarecrow and unthinkingly follow the commands of the one who awakened them and Nokluvgn, because they have an innate loyalty to him.
The scarecrows are pitifully weak, with only 0.5 Physical Might, and possess no Intelligence beyond what it takes to grasp and swing a makeshift weapon. They have no emotions beyond murderous hatred toward all things and total loyalty to their creator and Nokluvgn. The few advantages they have are a resistance to fire, the insignificant amount of Evil needed to awaken them, and the fact that dozens of scarecrows can be gathered and awakened with much more ease than it would take to gather and reanimate an equivalent amount of corpses. They appear to be ordinary scarecrows, but their eyes glow like embers, they exhale black smoke, whisper hateful insults in demonic tongue, and they have long barbed claws in place of fingers. Their attacks are demonic in nature, and wounds they inflict, while rarely fatal, almost always become infected and give the wounded vague nightmares of being torn to pieces.
Thoughts? I think having a horde of demonic scarecrows would be more interesting than a horde of zombies and skeletons, and eventually, when we go on the warpath, we'll want an enormous amount of unflinchingly loyal fodder to swarm barricades and soak up arrow-fire, the demonic scarecrows fit the bill.