The Visitors

"'The child seemed like a skeleton somehow risen from its grave, his jaw hanging loosely open, the hair almost gone from his head, and his eyes crimson, dark and glowing, the color of blood.' - The Plight of Steel, Chapter 43"

The Visitors are undead entities that wander the Bygone Wastes of Nightfall. They are stuck in a kind of purgatory, forced to perform the last task they had undertaken before their death for the rest of their existence. Archeon Starmane's party encounters them on their journey to the Forest of Rock, and he is later killed by them in the town of Eltaor.

Biography
Many filthy rivers snake across the terrain of the Bygone Wastes, crossing through villages and towns, forests, and eventually leading to the ocean. They originate from an unknown point within the Forest of Reor, a fact that has prompted many locals to believe the Men of Reor are dirtying and poisoning the rivers in an effort to kill humans who drink the water.

The disease which affects the Visitors is believed to originate in this river water, as no other explanation can be devised. Townspeople living in the wastes drink this water, and so, come back to life once dead. In The Plight of Steel, the large number of Visitors present in the wastes is due to the recent bout of starvation plaguing the country. After Alistair Wildlight sequestered himself in his keep, his people lost faith and died of starvation and panic, creating a spike in the number of undead.

Many Religious men in Nightfall believe the Visitors crawled up from the Gateway, created by the One, and are demons given life with the souls of those killed on the surface.

Appearance
The Visitors are similar to what a typical zombie might look like, save for their blood-red eyes. Some are more rotten than others, and the ones in Nightfall are garbed in tattered peasant raiment.