[h2][center]Gillian[/center][/h2]
[i]Interacting with: [/i] [@PaulHaynek][@Raineh Daze]
Gillian shrugged off the glares of his companions, not really threatened by the heat of their ire. Partly because he was more or less used to such reactions and partly because...well, if they were going to actually attempt to hurt him, they would have done so.[color=00aeef]"Eh. Not really a formal meeting. We're just shooting the shit as it were."[/color] he sighed, lounging back in his chair as the evening willed away into further mundane conversation. 
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Gillian woke the next day, spiritually no worse for wear than the night before. Somehow he'd managed to NOT get executed in final duration of his stay as royal bodyguard, which frankly had left more than a few of his fellow knights more than a little surprised. [color=00aeef][i]"No faith, these people. I can have tact when I need to."[/i][/color] he thought to himself as Tyathe wrote on the blackboard. He'd been dragged to this little lecture, ostensibly, as punishment for his behavior at the ball the previous evening. He wasn't going to complain. If the worse the Paladin was going to make him do was listen to her lecture about undead then he was getting off easy enough that just skipping out wasn't worth the effort. 

Gillian stifled a chuckle at Jarde's...technically correct answer, though perhaps the wrong one for this situation. [color=00aeef]"Got it in one kiddo, but no partial credits here. The blue circle: alive, sapient undead and vampires, are all beings with active independent cognitions. Largely due to natural functions in the case of the alive subject."[/color] He said, leaning back in his chair far enough to be sitting on two legs. [color=00aeef]"For the sapient undead and vampire its because they've got something called a mana reactor....basically they're big natural storage units for life giving energy which is why they don't actively rot. As for the last one..."[/color]

[color=00aeef]"Unintelligent dead DON'T have an 'internal' source of mana. Animated either through necromancers or ambient mana in places that have seen some seriously fucked up shit. Mass graves from wars are a good example. They also don't generally use weaponry, what with being mindless, and come in a variety of interesting odors."[/color] He leans forward, his chair audibly cracking against the stone floor. [color=00aeef]"My personal favorite being 'fetid' by the by. All three undead types can be the product of necromancy, but sapient and vampires do occur naturally on their own."[/color] He added as he rattled off the cliff notes version of what little lore Parnella had drilled into his skull. Albeit he was fairly sure even THAT was abridged. [color=00aeef]"I miss anything there Ms. Radistirin?"[/color] He asked with a mock tone of a sweet school boy.