Editing Apparitions to Zombies (section)

==Preface==
A little over 500 years ago, on the battlefield at [[Windy Point]], our Order was founded, with a mandate to search out and destroy the unliving and those who would use them as tools. And destroy them, we have.  

In the process, we have recorded much information about the types and powers of the walking dead, how to fight them, and how to survive the battle. About 300 years ago, the Order began to compile that information into a book, to better carry out our mandate.  That book was the first edition of ''Apparitions to Zombies''.

The first edition contained much that was, to our modern knowledge, incorrect, or at least apocryphal. It was also small, containing only 8 or 9 entries, and those short. A personal favorite was the entry about skeletons, wherein it was claimed that only human skeletons could be converted into that type of undead.  We know, now, of course, that virtually any corporeal being, once dead, can be converted into an animated skeleton.  Whether that represents broader knowledge on our part, or an advance in necromatic magical theory on the part of our enemy, is, I suppose, open to debate.

This new edition is something special.  Printed, for the first time, in bulk, by [[Barnabus and Nobble, Gnomish Book Printers]], on their innovative movable-type printing press, this book allows for wider distribution of our knowledge at a much lower cost. Our hope is to get a copy not only into the hands of each Hunter, as has always been our tradition, but into the hands of anyone who fights the undead - be they Fist, Sword, Shield, or free agent.

And that, my brethren, is a good thing.  For there are evil things afoot, and the dead are walking easy - altogether too easy - in the dark. Let this knowledge be a shining beacon in the growing darkness.  And, as this knowledge benefits you, let your experience benefit the rest of the Order, and all those who stand in the Light.  File reports, share your experience, learn from one another!

Yours in the Light, 
E'osa Brightwing