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Zombie (Warcraft)

GamesUndeadShamblesSorcery2000 to 2009

The mindless plague dead of the Warcraft setting, the lowest rank of the Scourge. They wander the Plaguelands, and in Warcraft III's telling they are ghouls in the making.12

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First appeared
2002
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002)
Source work
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002)
Blizzard Entertainment
Made in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
The plague of undeath spread by the Lich King's Scourge kills its victims and raises them as undead.
How you become one
A plague victim who dies and rises; in Warcraft III lore a zombie is the stage before a ghoul.
How it moves
Shambles
Slow and instinctive; they wander lands the Scourge holds or once held.
Intelligence
Mindless

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2002

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002)

field notes

What the sources say

1

Cannon fodder for the Lich King12

2

Most were human peasants and soldiers, though troll and elf zombies exist12

3

Some broke free after the Third War and joined the Forsaken12

4

World of Warcraft's Zombie Infestation event turned players into zombies12

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (shambles), not a measurement.

Zombie (Warcraft) about 3 km/h
You, walking about 5 km/h
You, jogging about 10 km/h
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h

Sources

  1. Zombie - Warcraft Wiki
  2. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos - Wikipedia

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