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Zombies return to [[Diablo III]] in much the same form as they limped around in [[Diablo I]] and [[Diablo II]]: humanoid, slow, shambling, and just generally unpleasant. Their slow speed and negligible intelligence makes them ideal targets for new characters who are just starting to practice their skills.
[[File:Zombie5.jpg|left|thumb|100pz|Close up view.]]
They are easy to outrun and outsmart, and only ever pose a threat if they appear in such large numbers that you can't kill them all in time. Even that, however, is normally not a problem, since all classes have some sort of [[AoE]] damage spell to kill more of them at once.
==Background==
Zombies can be both re-animated corpses straight out of a grave, which require very little [[magic]] energy from a [[Necromancer]] to give a basic motivation (braaaains...) of destructive power. It's motivation can also be a restless spirit of the former inhabitant of the body, awakening again after death, looking for others to inflict this pain.
Zombies are generally completely void of intelligence, and the wounds they received prior to their death often slows them down, making them dangerous primarily only in large numbers. They are the most basic sort of [[undead]], often thought of as even less troublesome than [[Skeleton]]s. The one thing they have as an advantage is usually that they can take more physical punishment before they are destroyed, and the force or spirit that drives them is removed/expelled.
==Lore==
==Development==
In previous games, Zombies have been pretty straight-forward.
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[[File:Zombie5.jpg|right|thumb|100pz|A Walker!]]'''Risen Dead''' (aka zombies) are [[undead]] reanimated human corpses that hunger for the blood and flesh of the living.
One of the standard monster types in the Diablo games (and all fantasy RPGs), Zombies are one of the easier types of monsters to slay, notable for their slow foot speed and lack of armor or weaponry. There are higher level types of zombies, and many much more fearsome members of the [[Undead]], but every adventurer must start off with some shambling bags of experience, and zombies admirably fill that role.
<mob>Ravenous Dead</mob>
==Risen==
[[File:Risen.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Risen]]
*Appears in Act I - [[The Cave Under the Well]], [[Dank Cellar]], [[Damp Cellar]], [[Dark Cellar]], [[The Hidden Cellar]], [[Musty Cellar]], [[New Tristram]], [[The Old Ruins]] and [[Overlook Road]]
*Physical melee attack
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<mob>Walking Corpse</mob>
===Crawling Torso===
==Named==
*[[Wretched Mother]] - [[The Old Ruins]] of [[Act I]]. One of the objectives of the quest [[The Fallen Star]] quest.
==Lore==
I will never forget the first time I saw these horrors shambling out of the misty woods. Our loved ones, buried long ago, rose from their graves and began to attack the living. However, the risen dead were only the beginning...
<div style="text-align:right;">Deckard Cain</div>
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