[HJ]

In my understanding, this is misleading:
All the descriptions for banefire/decay effects point to "flesh rotting and shriveling, wounds festering" etc., which would suggest that the unit would need to be alive for it to take place. However, if you happen to hit a bane with a bane blade, he will also start to decay, so will the skeletons, and IIRC I once had a golem hit by a banefire bow who also started to decay, while he cetrainly has no flesh since he's made out of clay (and the skeletons have only bones and are already decaying constantly). To me it's very counterintuitive that undead and lifeless (maybe ethereals as well?) are affected by decay/banefire. My understanding from reading the descriptions is that it's not an acid that would eat away just any matter, it's a thing that affects the flesh/lifeforce, but it doesn;t work as such.