Why are undead so often associated with ice and cold?

Both a newfag and a brainlet. What a pity.

Have fun trying to burn bone without a high pressure environment and

Because dead people doesn't regulate their temperatures like we

Warmth brings life
Cold retards it

At the very least ASoIaF's Others predate the Scourge. I'm sure there are other examples.

Ever heard the phrase "the chill of the grave?"

This is why.

>Why are undead so often associated with ice and cold
Dead bodies get colder than live ones, numbnuts!

Others are not undead.

In old Norse mythology, the afterlife you didn't want to go to was a land of ice. The connection goes back a long time.

sure but making undead is their thing

because dead bodies dont heat up over time

Nowadays?
Because Warcraft 3 and WoW.
Undead prior to that were usually associated with deadly negative energy, darkness, or sometimes fire. Rarely ice. Blizzard made the ice connotation widely popular and well-known.

Burning is one way to kill a vampire, mummies probably aren't fond of it either.

While cold preserves the dead, be careful not to freeze them too much. You might give them freezer burn.

Also a good way to kill a wendigo. Which is some kind of berserk ice-vampire, really.

because warcraft started it to contrast their previous fire themed dragon villains and masses of unimaginative artists since copied warcraft

to be clear warcraft did not invent the association it just popularized it

Neither was Arthas but they both still led undead armies.

>He used "dank" in the unironic, proper sense
>I instantly thought about dank memes and giggled
It's time for me to stop posting

You ever touch a dead body?

youtube.com/watch?v=8YvuiH-_2rY

Arthas was undead, the exact moment he dies and becomes undead is never pinned down but shortly after defeating
Mal'ganis he cuts out his own heart and offers it to Ner'zhul.

I miss lightning base undead i.e. Frankenstein's Monster.

Wights

>Ner'zhul
No relation to Zeratul?

>Undead
>In real life

user...

yes, in real life fire does not destroy skeletons
even cremation furnaces don't destroy bones, they just burn the flesh to ashes, workers grind up the bones afterwards

Dead bodies are cold, low temperatures are an obstacle to most forms of life and to large-scale civilization, and ice and frost are on a metaphorical level associated with stasis, harshness, loss (or theft) of energy, and passionless inhumanity.

Dead bodies are cold, user. Plus, death is what's really associated with ice and cold. Absence. Like fire is associated with life, passion, and light, death is what happens when that fire goes out.

Dead bodies are cold, darkness is cold, cold s pretty deadly in general.

Not necessarily. Deserts are the best for natural preservation of a corpse. Skin and even hair may be left intact on a body if it dies in the desert.

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>even cremation furnaces don't destroy bones

Try telling that to the Hall of Cost.

Holy shit lost it to this image hard

Earth, Fire, Air, Water
Druidic magic = Earth (plant life)
Demonic magic = Fire (hell)
Holy magic = Air (sky, storm, lightning)
Necromantic magic = Water (ice)

Undead are related to entropy, which is cold and dark.

Because corpses are dead and living beings produce heat.
Your question is retarded, OP.

And void (greek)? And wood, metal (china)?

>reading comprehension
>you have none

He said BODIES, not undead.