So, canon is weirdly close-lipped on Erasmus and zombies, mostly by never letting him be around them.
In canon, zombification is reserved for horrible people/criminals who did seriously wrong in life, as the ultimate punishment continuing after death. Zombies are used for things like crime scene cleanup or, uh, cleaning up after vampires.
My theory is that he would be able to sense a zombie, because it's a dead body. He would also, in the presence of the zombie, know its full name and be able to recall its soul (when applicable) and command it by said name. He wouldn't do that, though, out of respect for the priestess (or Liliana) that raised the zombie. (Also, probably he's assuming the zombie was a horrible person who doesn't need/deserve his help, because that's how it would go in his world.) I could be entirely wrong and he's not able to affect a zombie at all, but considering he's able to affect a djinn...
I also have canon precedent for the second question, because that happens to be the MO of the serial killer in his first book! He won't notice the soul bits if they're currently attached to the soul of a living person. If that person is deceased, he will notice the soul bits. He can tell which ones don't belong, and if he has access to both sets of remains he can remove the out-of-place bits and put them back in the soul they belong to.
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Date: 2025-08-29 03:12 pm (UTC)In canon, zombification is reserved for horrible people/criminals who did seriously wrong in life, as the ultimate punishment continuing after death. Zombies are used for things like crime scene cleanup or, uh, cleaning up after vampires.
My theory is that he would be able to sense a zombie, because it's a dead body. He would also, in the presence of the zombie, know its full name and be able to recall its soul (when applicable) and command it by said name. He wouldn't do that, though, out of respect for the priestess (or Liliana) that raised the zombie. (Also, probably he's assuming the zombie was a horrible person who doesn't need/deserve his help, because that's how it would go in his world.) I could be entirely wrong and he's not able to affect a zombie at all, but considering he's able to affect a djinn...
I also have canon precedent for the second question, because that happens to be the MO of the serial killer in his first book! He won't notice the soul bits if they're currently attached to the soul of a living person. If that person is deceased, he will notice the soul bits. He can tell which ones don't belong, and if he has access to both sets of remains he can remove the out-of-place bits and put them back in the soul they belong to.