Aptrgangr Troops (Undead)

The Valkyries do not claim every soul that falls beneath the northern sky. They choose only those they find worth, leaving behind those beneath their contempt.

The Aptrgangr are the corpses of the cruel, the cowardly, and the indolent. In life they preyed upon those weaker than themselves, fled when courage demanded a price, or allowed others to suffer in their place. Death offered no absolution. Their bodies are dragged back into service, swollen with grave-magic and sent into battle as a mockery of the warriors they refused to become in life.

Fear and suffering sustain them. An Aptrgangr grows stronger as panic spreads around it, drinking deeply from pain until dead flesh thickens, bones lengthen, and the corpse swells beyond the proportions it possessed in life. The worst battlefields produce the greatest of them. What begins as a shambling corpse may leave the field a hulking thing, fattened upon the terror of the living.