Eater of the Dead?

[GavinWheeler]

As I understand it, it eats 'unburied bodies.' These can be generated by battles, by spells like 'Black death', by random events (I think) or by creatures who cause disease being in the same province, such as a Harvester of sorrows or a commander wearing a bane venom amulet. If you gift of reason the Eater, you could have hime wear a bane venom amulet himself, but that seems bit of a waste of his limited magic item slots.

It will kill enemies, like any unit, until it becomes Unfettered at which point it will attack anyone. This presumably creates unburied bodies which it will then eat, but the actual programming mechanics is tied to the 'unburied bodies' statistic of the province - one of the figures you can see on the province info.

Edit: So yes, you can have it with your army like any other unit. When it reaches the Unfetterd stage, you will get a message telling you so, then a battel where it attacks your forces in the same province as itself. Unless you Gift of Reasoned it and sent it out on its own, in which case it has noone to attack. If it survives this battle, it will then show as an independent force in that province, and will attack any non-stealthy forces that enter that province.

[ March 22, 2004, 16:23: Message edited by: GavinWheeler ]