Nobody seemed to know much about the deathborn.
Many people attempted to come up with explanations why they appeared all of a sudden.
The majority of the population ascribed to the theory that they consisted of the lingering consciousness of deceased sentient beings.
The disclosure of E energy radiation along with other revelations related to human civilization's darker history persuaded a lot of people to believe in the existence of souls.
The deathborn may be what might happen to some of them if they died with lingering regrets or anger.
For whatever reason, their souls failed to move on to the afterlife, and suffered a mysterious punishment that transformed them into malevolent entities.
Every contact between the living and the dead resulted in violence as far as everyone knew.
There was no way to communicate or reason with the deathborn. The latter always tried to attack and suck out the lives of those with intact and honest souls.
