Lifeless Soldiers

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Author: Toby

Last revision: 15 Aug, 2025 at 22:13 UTC

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Description:
Control the Corpses of your Enemies!

This mod adds new a men-at-arms and a new character interaction to prisoners: Turning them into Lifeless. The process takes around 6 months. The subject dies, then gets infused with a Breath and a set of Commands

Lifeless don’t need to eat or sleep, they are basically zombies and have no free will. They don’t age but due to their nature decay overtime. Their lifespan is around 10 years, but you can maintain them with ichor-alcohol (small money cost, but as long as there’s a New Lifeless modifier, you won’t be able to). If you have one in court who isn’t listening to commands, you can break their previous Commands and become their new master.

If you are landed and are sadistic, ambitious, wrathful or a lunatic, you can create an army of Lifeless soldiers by digging up fresh corpses from graves. This will have consequences on your public image! The army will stay on succession.

The whole idea comes from Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Honestly surprised so few mods exist on Cosmere, I do plan on making a bigger mod with the whole BioChromatic Breath system with Lifeless being only part of it, but I am still very inexperienced, if there’s anyone with more knowledge on how to get Breaths to work(something like values maybe?), hit me up.

Planned

– Traits for Lifeless masters(dread and negative general opinion)
– Balance changes
– Decision to create armies should be applied to a county and give a negative popular opinion modifier along with control loss

Compatibility

No idea, should be compatible with most mods, this one just adds stuff without editing existing game files. Do let me know if it’s not working with some other mod, I’ll try to fix it as soon as I can

art for MAA is by Hoborginc, if requested by the author I’ll remove it