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* Any place with a sufficient concentration/accumulation of dead bodies in the New World of ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}} can become a nexus of necromantic energies, which cause the spontaneous creation of TheUndead; weaker forms appear at first, but if some sort of necromantic critical mass can be reached it can [[FromBadToWorse cause a chain reaction]] where ever greater numbers of undead of ever stronger varieties appear until a run-of-the-mill ZombieApocalypse will seem mild in comparison. This is why cemeteries in large cities such as E-Rantel are walled off and guarded and the weak undead that periodically appear are routinely culled, and why the Katze Plains, where the Re-Estize Kingdom and Baharuth Empire have their annual war/battle, is uninhabited despite ostensibly being in a strategically advantageous geographical location.

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** Nehekhara (AncientEgypt) is dotted with the tombs of the kings of Khemri, who were buried with their servants to rule the after life. Unfortunately, the rituals went wrong, and they returned as skeletons. Now there's a single country with a few dozen legitimate rulers, each technically correct when they say they're the rightful king.

A hidden form of this may be a FieldOfBlades. Compare {{Mordor}}, which is lifeless but not necrotic. See also AtopAMountainOfCorpses, NothingButSkulls. It may overlap with UnholyGround.

A hidden form of this may be a FieldOfBlades. See also AtopAMountainOfCorpses, NothingButSkulls. It may overlap with UnholyGround.

* A naval version of this exists in the Savo Sound in the Solomon Islands, known as ''Ironbottom Sound'' as a result of the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Wrecks_in_the_Ironbottom_Sound.jpg numerous ships]] lost in the fierce fighting between the Japanese and the Allies during world war two. The wrecks of fifty ships are scattered across the area, ranging in size from patrol boats to the two Japanese battleships ''Hiei'' and ''Kirishima''.

* A naval version of this exists in the Savo Sound in the Solomon Islands, known as ''Ironbottom Sound'' as a result of the numerous ships lost in the fierce fighting between the Japanese and the Allies during world war two. The wrecks of fifty ships are scattered across the area, ranging in size from patrol boats to the two Japanese battleships ''Hiei'' and ''Kirishima''.

* The Mournland from ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', which used to be the nation of Cyre until it was destroyed by a magical disaster called the Day of Mourning.

-->-- '''Gollum,''' ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers''

* A naval version of this exists in the Savo Sound in the Solomon Islands, known as ''Ironbottom Sound'' as a result of the numerous ships lost in the fierce fighting between the Japanese and the Allies during world war two. The wrecks of fifty ships are scattered across the area, ranging in size from patrol boats to the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

* The Permian extinction (the world's largest mass extinction, more devastating that even that of the dinosaurs) saw a rise in fungal species, adapted to conssume corpses. It may very well have meant that animal and plant corpses ''littered the world'' for a while.

** At the center of Ulthuan's inland sea is the Isle of the Dead, the nexus of a great spell woven by ancient High Elf mages to bend the Winds of Magic into their current configuration, and where the [[ArtifactOfDoom Sword of Khaine]] is kept. As a result of this localized TimeCrash, the island is covered with the corpses of elves who fell during the ancient war against Chaos, their millennia-old bodies just as bloody as the day they fell.

* The ''Franchise/GearsOfWar'' series has Char "The Ultimate Sin of the COG", the area where the [[KillSat Hammer of Dawn]] was used on the Locust to halt their attacks, roughly '''75%''' of Sera. In a disturbing mirror of Pompeii, there are ashen remains of every man, woman and child who were unable to reach the safe zone.

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* The Dead Marshes in ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'', a foul bog stretching miles across Middle Earth filled with corpses from the first war with [[BigBad Sauron]]. [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent Spirits]] of the men, elves, and orcs that were buried there try to lure travelers into the marshes to add to the body count. Tolkien scholars speculate that the terrain was inspired by the author's experiences in the waterlogged trenches of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

** Some parts of them are still unfit for human habitation, see ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge Zone Rouge]]''.

* [[TheCityFormerlyKnownAs St.Petersburg]], Russia is known as "the city built on bones". Its oldest parts were built by forced labor during UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat's time, and many peasants press-ganged into the workforce died there. Because of that, St.Pete still enjoys a somewhat gothic and sinister reputation in Russia.

* In ''Series/DragonAge'', areas affected by The Blight often end up like this, with it specifically noted that The Blight kills or corrupts ''all'' living things, and certain areas of the Anderfels, which suffered two Blights, had even the bacteria be killed off so corpses from that time period are still there and intact.