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Dead Hand, by Laura Tolton

A Dead Hand is a corpse that has been reanimated by a necromancer and a type of Dead creature. Hands are used as vessels to host the spirit of a bound servant from Death.

Hands are capable of gradually altering their bodies to suit their needs, such as growing longer and sharper teeth. They can be stronger than a living human, but are usually of low intelligence. Hands are mostly used to perform manual labour as slaves, such as the Southerlings killed by Hedge, or to attack in large groups.

Being one of the weaker forms of Lesser Dead, Hands have little intelligence and no initiative, and are weakened and eventually destroyed by sunlight. They generally cannot cross running water (unless it is bridged by grave dirt), and being submerged will destroy them.

In Abhorsen, Hedge uses his massive host of killed Southerlings to make two rows of Dead Hands through the Wall and carries Orannis and a possessed Nicholas Sayre between them. The Wall's protective Charter magic is occupied with destroying the Hands (which are constantly replaced) to allow Nick and the two hemispheres of Orannis to pass through unharmed, when otherwise such a powerful Free Magic being would be unable to cross.

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