Undead

Details

Playable RaceHorde

Raised into undeath, the Forsaken have built a bold future out of the ruins of a darkened past.

PlayableYes

Starting level1

FactionHorde

Model keyScourge

Read from ChrRaces in the current retail client build. The name forms, starting level and model key are the client's own fields; the portraits and body model are the client's own art; the racials come from the client's "Racial" skill line.

Racial Abilities (5)

Each one is a real spell in the current build. The client groups them as Racial - Undead, where every rank and its tooltip lives.

What Each Racial Does

Cannibalize
When activated, regenerates 7% of total health and mana every 2 sec for 10 sec. Only works on Humanoid or Undead corpses within 5 yds. Any movement, action, or damage taken while Cannibalizing will cancel the effect.
Shadow Resistance
Reduces Shadow damage taken by 1%.
Touch of the Grave
Your attacks and damaging spells have a chance to drain the target, dealing Shadow damage and healing you for the same amount. Additionally, you can breathe underwater indefinitely.
Will of the Forsaken
Removes any Charm, Fear and Sleep effect. This effect shares a 30 sec cooldown with other similar effects.

4 of the 5 racial abilities the client teaches this race carry tooltip text in the current build. The rest are passive hooks with no description of their own.

In the Character Creator

The client's own ChrRaces row names Warlock as this race's default class, which is the specialization the character creator lands on before you touch anything.
Azeroth's bestiary files Undead under the Humanoid creature type, the same classification the game uses on every NPC that shares the body.

Appearance Options

The character creator ships 10 distinct appearance options for Undead, 10 on Body Type 1 and 10 on Body Type 2, worth 294 individual settings between them.
Body Type 1 alone carries 152 of those settings.
Body Type 2 alone carries 142 of those settings.
Skin Color is the widest single slider at 49 settings.
Both bodies share Face, Skin Type, Skin Color, Hair Style, Hair Color, Jaw Features, Face Features, Eye Color, Eyesight and Eye Style.

Face11
Skin Type3
Skin Color49
Hair Style21
Hair Color18
Jaw Features11
Face Features5
Eye Color27
Eyesight4
Eye Style3

Counted from the client's own ChrCustomizationOption and ChrCustomizationChoice records for this race's models. Blizzard labels the two records Body Type 1 and Body Type 2 in the creator itself.

Who Is Playing Undead

Our rated PvP crawl currently holds 14,224 Undead characters, the 5th largest of the 26 races it has seen.
The classes they play most are Priest (5,906, 42%), Warlock (2,140, 15%), Mage (1,683, 12%), Rogue (1,629, 11%) and Monk (1,555, 11%).
8 different classes appear on Undead characters in that sample.
The body split across those characters is 74% male and 26% female.
In the Mythic Plus crawl, 788 ranked runs were set by Undead characters, the deepest key among them a plus 17 and the best Mythic Plus rating 3,366.

These are counts from our own rated PvP and Mythic Plus crawls, last refreshed 2026-09-20. They say who is playing the race right now. They are not the character creator's list of allowed classes: the client keeps that in CharBaseInfo, which this datamine does not carry, so a class missing from the list above only means nobody in the sample is playing it.