Surviving A Thousand-Year Winter

[Quertus]

Leaving aside issues of game mechanics, I’m not convinced that survivors of a global apocalypse will be automatically better-disposed towards obvious undead. The survivors are likely to be even more afraid of the undead, since the survivors are doing their best to hide from the outside world, and being discovered by powerful undead won’t put anyone’s mind at ease.

Timing, though - those who are *looking* for a way to survive may be more willing to accept help that they might normally reject.

And those who have just had their orbs stolen by the evil empire might well welcome the collective strength of belonging to a larger community (really, the undead should have *paid* those guys to go raiding like they did - they couldn't have asked for a much better setup).

Not everyone is trying to hide.

Those with a sufficiently isolationist mindset (my own lycanthropes, for example), won't exactly be pleased - but, to the extent that reason prevails over fear, anyone with the appropriate skill set should also realize that wasting resources attacking them isn't beneficial.