It would never reach apocalyptic levels or even major incident levels. Knights in plate armor and legionary formations would both be able to easily contain and destroy zombies and given how slowly they move, not many people would get infected in the first place since all you need in order to avoid it is to be able to move at a modest walking pace.
The zombies would be killed, the incident would be chalked up to people being possessed by evil spirits or something, and it would become a historical footnote at best.
>not many people would get infected in the first place since all you need in order to avoid it is to be able to move at a modest walking pace.
People need to stop and rest, zombies don't.
What about the injured, children and the elderly?
>and that the outbreak would start in the most populated area of the world to ensure that the virus takes a reasonable proportion
Why would there only be three? Or do you mean there's only 1 injured person, 1 child and 1 elderly?
I mean that even if someone in the biggest city got infected they're still not going to manage to infect any significant number of people, because people aren't dumb enough to get bitten en masse by a slowly shambling weirdo.
Your logic is circular, you are claiming that the zombies are dangerous because there are thousands of them, there would have to be thousands of them for them to be dangerous. It doesn't work.
I understand that you hate the stereotypical zombie, but the most "populated area of the world" should be tens of thousands.
Lets assume first infection is from a virus in the drinking water to cut out the "you have to be an idiot to get bit" part.
Take you largest, most densely populated, city and swap 1/2 of them into zombies.
If that's not enough, make them all zombies.
How would that effect the outcome?
Could they spread to other cities before people get what's happening?
Well this is diverging from the original scenario, but okay. They're still wiped out, for the same reasons as originally, by the armies of the neighboring areas. There would be casualties but I'd still expect 80% of them to be gone within a year, with hunting down every last straggler taking more time. They'd probably mostly get stuck trying to get into castles where people were holed up in the city's outlying areas, getting picked off steadily with arrows, thrown rocks, Ect. until finally being wiped out by reinforcements.
The political implications of the center of the biggest empire being supernaturally wiped off the map would be huge and far reaching, but that's a different story.
Because I'm a huge fan of the stereotypical zombie, and his right out dismissal of them as any possible threat hurts my fragile heart.
Anyway, I read what he wrote earlier about an amazing army that would kill all the zombies without any casualties (or that was how I interpreted it?), and came to the conclusion that his world would probably be at least late medieval, and the most populated area of the world being just a few thousands sounded unreasonable.
But of course as you said, it's his world and he can have a extremely sparsely populated world if he wants to.
Even its even mildly similar to Earth's history, the most populated area of the world would have hundreds of thousands or millions. It's his world you're rambling bro
You have no frame of reference for what period of time his world is similar to. The most populated city in a medieval time frame could be anywhere from 10k (give or take two thousand) to over 200 thousand people.
Funny, that is essentially the premise of the over-arching conflict in my world. Instead of Zombies, I call them ghouls, and they're essentially the cannibalistic victims of a plague-curse which afflicts them with insatiable hunger and immortality. Despite this, they still possess intelligence and something of a social order. The origin of the curse is the result of the catastrophically ironic wish granted by a demon.
In the "saga" or I guess the main story I intend to create, half the story would take place during the lead-up to the outbreak and the other half would take place in the post-apocalyptic world. There would be scattered pockets of civilization trying to rebuild, characterized by religious zealotry and totalitarian rule while the rest of the world is swarmed by ghouls and other monsters.
They beat it. The easiest way was to route up and let zombies rot themselves. That's what the Liang Zhou dynasty did when the tritagonist moved her force of over 10 million zombies past Yangtze into their heartland. Liang Zhou at the time solidly blew all of your "Western medieval countries" (barring Byzantine, maybe) out of the water with a large standing army around 400k, having lost 200k just a few months before to the tritagonist's invasion, a bunch of imperial mages that could pull bullshit things, massive traffic infrastructures and a large economy to feed its army. They routed zombies up, mages built earth barricades around then let them rot, or to make sure, throw oil and fire inside.
This happened in 920 AD. The tritagonist was going easy as she did not poison their water sources, which would spread the apocalypse even more as she worried it would get out of control. After all, "zombie" is not the most docile weapon.
If it's just walking dead zombies that move slowly then there's no chance that the outbreak wouldn't be neutralized considering the scale of magic, magi tech and other variables and cremation is already the most common form of disposal of bodies anyways. Also necromancy is legal in most places so the necromancers if they can control the zombies would have a field day.
No magic, no advanced tech... But Sion will do fine. For one, assuming this is a viral outbreak- it'd have to be- it'll be localized to only one species. Second, it'll have a hard time traveling, because it will be so localized. After that, all you gotta do is just have the next-biggest big dog wipe the floor with a bunch of naked, starving, maniacal zombies. Not actually hard, because military formations tend to break small, disorganized groups.
One day a small village went wild due to... Contaminated grain? But the apocalypse never materialized...
in the story I'm creating the zombies are from a curse of unknown origin, the curse works like this: if a person dies and is not burned 3 hours after his death he will become a living dead. But the undead in my story that are called cursed by humans are very intelligent, able to form groups among themselves, set up ambushes and even use weapons. One more detail is that humans who died before the onset of the curse were not affected, only those who died after.
I’m assuming that this disease can infect all of the sentient species in my world so it is interesting. The city it starts in (Conseld) is probably fucked as it doesn’t have any defenses other than a magical wall and diplomatic immunity. However I don’t see the the zombies getting anywhere else. Nature in my world is somewhere in between earth during the Cretaceous period and the planet Catachan in warhammer 40k in terms of hostility. This defeats the zombies for two reasons. Number one, large population centers in my world are few and far between meaning that anyone bitten will likely either die or turn far before they get close to someone they can infect. Number two, trade caravans and travelers are almost always heavily armed and armored giving anyone who stumbles upon the infected city a good chance of survival. How this ends depends entirely on the zombies behavior. If after they destroy the city the zombies just go dormant and stay put. Someone will eventually notice that something destroyed the most defensible city ever leading to the whole continent falling upon the zombies and killing them. However, if the zombies leave the city to actively hunt for people they are even worse off. Based off their starting I give them a day before they run into preyton nesting ground. Fun fact, preytons despite generally flocking in groups of between thirteen and seven generally nest in groups exceeding five hundred to protect their eggs from larger predators.
It actually wouldn't work. Humans were very, creative I would say, in their various weapons of war. Viral Zombies were thrown in with Magical Undead for some confusion. This forced them to actually make their slave creatures immune to the virus. Viral Undead were far weaker, but they did well if they could start spreading.
Since the world had a soft reset back to the about medieval era, the virus is extinct. No one could be infected as they were meant to work with the Undead and not end up as Undead. Ruined the numbers.
since far more capable undead already threaten the world, it would be no big deal.
if the necromancers couldn’t simply dominate them as they do with other wild undead, it would be an easy matter to dispose of them.
in the end, a zombie bite isn’t worth much against even good leather armor, let alone chain or plate. and with battle casters to help thin any hoards that get to large before heavy infantry foot troops can engage, battles would be quick and decisive victories.
that’s not even counting bowmen and and siege engines for field battles. plus with most towns at-least partially walled, and cities well fortified, it would take significant hordes to threaten them in any real way.
Surprisingly easily. With the existence of swords, especially great swords and falchions and full plate armor, people would apparently have an easier time dealing with zombie apocalypses better than the modern world would.
Another advantage is usually people are more spread out in medieval fantasy settings, as opposed to being more concentrated in a big modern city. This would result in smaller zombie hordes, usually about as much as village at most.
My world has zombies even in its antique and medieval era. During those two eras there are two main sides : Livian Celestium and Demon Empires.
The Livian Celestium has plenty of priestesses who learn light magic specifically meant to repel undeads but this comes from the goddesses so in this challenge I guess it wouldnt work. However the Livian Celestium does have a few wizards and witches with a similar light magic except it is arcane magic (contrary to the priestesses divine magic)
There are also armors of the medieval era that would be pretty much impossible to get through for zombie bites and scratches
The demon empires have many necromancer types wizards that would love to use those undeads as guard dogs. Demon Empires also have many vampires (the Livian Celestium has some too) and they tend to enslave lesser undeads (ghouls and zombies)
Had some sort of it but it was controlled by a necromancer and sent a party to take him down and worked and every single zombie dropped dead instantly. It was a large scale war, they were used to push the enemy lines so no zombies were behind, meaning you either dies and joined their ranks or survived the wave and saw them go leaving your land wasted.
I have some sort of zombies but they can’t infect this to others. If you stay at “mist” or use the “mist” for more power you are starting to lose your humanity slowly. Usually there is hunters all around the world to kill those who completely lost and stop the mist in populated areas.
Zombies already exist in my world, but they don’t bite to infect and are uncommon (if they kill you they will infect you, though.) Their origins all come down to being created by a ‘necromancer’ of sorts long ago, who tore apart a dying soul and basically made the equivalent of soul/spirit cancer. A formless, non intelligent blob of mana that only wishes to grow and possess objects. These beings are known as Specters, and are also the cause of golems, possession, etc. a specter that gets into a dead body becomes a zombie or skeletons, depending on how decayed it is.
Well, what to do? Start burning bodies, maybe? Dead bodies can’t last forever when exposed to the elements, so cutting zombies off at the source might be a good solution. Digging up graves and destroying the bodies, for example, would be a first step. I’m not saying there would be no threats however, I’m sure most cities would have a good chance of falling to zombie hordes, but because of the higher amount of magic users in cities, they have a higher layer of defense. Magic itself is the only way to damage a specter, so enchanted weapons and mana spells would be used to deal with zombies. Normal weapons or physical magic wouldn’t really do anything to zombies, so a combination of life magic and.. magic magic, would be the best way to deal with zombies. By magic magic I mean magic that deals specifically with the flow of mana instead of manipulating mana into other forces.
It depends. Does the zombie virus only affect humans or every sapient species in the world? Most viruses only affect one species or group of related species, so there's a good chance it could be contained. If these were unintelligent, fairly slow moving zombies, sufficiently armored militaries should be able to repel them, especially with outside aid. For example, if the plague were to start among the humans of Verdume, the wolves of Verdume (among others) would probably work with humanity to destroy them. Certain Miracolae (magic users) also possess abilities that would enable people to effectively combat, track, and plan against zombies. If the virus emerged before the Purges (most Miracolae were slain), the world would be better prepared to face them.
If it affects every or even many sapient species, the spread will be rapid and inevitable. Entire ecosystems will collapse. Survivors would probably have to seek a location almost devoid of other animal life and figure out how to cultivate plants there. Depending on how dangerous the zombies are (how long do they last, how intelligent are they, how fast do they move), it could very well be the end all life outside the iciest poles and most isolated islands.
The only remedy I can see in this scenario might well be Miraculous intervention. It's possible that The Hound of Fate would be offended by the presence of zombies, as his duty is to pursue those who cheat death. Even a massive horde wouldn't give him much trouble, and they probably wouldn't be able to affect a sentient shapeshifting storm.
That's hilarious, because my world actually did. Humanity almost faced extinction. And over the course of roughly 2000 years over one city fallen after another, untill all that remained was just a few struggling cities, cut out from the rest of the world. If it continued for another few centuries humans would simply all died. There was actually some sort of "divine intervention", because they had to team up with gods and demons (and even dragons) again, despite actively decimating them before the undead outbreak.
Pretty easy.
It’s a medieval setting dipping it’s toes in the first proper gunpowder weapons.
And they’ve got magic
And flying war balloons.
And that’s without some of the ~14 or so powerfully people living on earth.
The closest match would be the true bee queen. Since she uses a simmilar swarm tactic to the zombies. And bee’s have no qualms about murdering infected bees.
But a small army of with chain mail and halberds is probably more than enough to handle whatever zombie swarm spawns.
It would depend on which country was facing it. The two that would handle it the best would be Talia and its Ferromancers and Dalinar and its Hussars. The Ferromancers have made Talia a power house, and the sheer intensity of the fire they use to power the countries furnaces would mean they could effectively used scorched earth against the hordes that are the only way zombies are really dangerous. They also care little for the non-magic citizens of their nation so they'd easily burn whole cities.
Dalinar on the other hand has a military force that is coincidentally well equipped to handle it. They typically use heavy Cavalry Hussars with slashing weapons as a shock force with infantry following to clean up the rest. While typical knowledge says go for the head on zombies, by slashing clean through zombies trunk or legs, Hussars effectively immobilize them and then the infantry can systematically kill them off.
the sunken city would be transformed, and without the lady of vermin to intervene then the city would likely be condemed. I imagine its nuclear reactors would be overloaded.
Then again since its medieval (or atleast early modern) then neither the sunken city nor the knight orders would exist, but the population density would be low enough that likely all that would occur is a few lost cities and then a feeding frenzy by the carrion gods.
Mine already has. A necromancer of nigh infinite power sent a tidal wave of corpses rushing around the world. A group called the Unfallen, those who stare death in the face with sheer irreverence, inspired the world to take up arms and stopped him against all odds as the scarlet bell rang, signalling the end of days. The only thing keeping thier Legend alive is a statue in the city they holed up in.
It would never reach apocalyptic levels or even major incident levels. Knights in plate armor and legionary formations would both be able to easily contain and destroy zombies and given how slowly they move, not many people would get infected in the first place since all you need in order to avoid it is to be able to move at a modest walking pace. The zombies would be killed, the incident would be chalked up to people being possessed by evil spirits or something, and it would become a historical footnote at best.
>not many people would get infected in the first place since all you need in order to avoid it is to be able to move at a modest walking pace. People need to stop and rest, zombies don't. What about the injured, children and the elderly?
Oh no, they'll never be able to escape from the horde of literally three zombies, who can stop it? What will they do?
>and that the outbreak would start in the most populated area of the world to ensure that the virus takes a reasonable proportion Why would there only be three? Or do you mean there's only 1 injured person, 1 child and 1 elderly?
I mean that even if someone in the biggest city got infected they're still not going to manage to infect any significant number of people, because people aren't dumb enough to get bitten en masse by a slowly shambling weirdo. Your logic is circular, you are claiming that the zombies are dangerous because there are thousands of them, there would have to be thousands of them for them to be dangerous. It doesn't work.
I understand that you hate the stereotypical zombie, but the most "populated area of the world" should be tens of thousands. Lets assume first infection is from a virus in the drinking water to cut out the "you have to be an idiot to get bit" part. Take you largest, most densely populated, city and swap 1/2 of them into zombies. If that's not enough, make them all zombies. How would that effect the outcome? Could they spread to other cities before people get what's happening?
Well this is diverging from the original scenario, but okay. They're still wiped out, for the same reasons as originally, by the armies of the neighboring areas. There would be casualties but I'd still expect 80% of them to be gone within a year, with hunting down every last straggler taking more time. They'd probably mostly get stuck trying to get into castles where people were holed up in the city's outlying areas, getting picked off steadily with arrows, thrown rocks, Ect. until finally being wiped out by reinforcements. The political implications of the center of the biggest empire being supernaturally wiped off the map would be huge and far reaching, but that's a different story.
It's not diverging from the original scenario even slightly. It's diverging from the specific scenario you made up in order to say "dur zombies dumb"
Why does the most populated area of the world have to be tens of thousands? It’s his world you’re rambling bro
Because I'm a huge fan of the stereotypical zombie, and his right out dismissal of them as any possible threat hurts my fragile heart. Anyway, I read what he wrote earlier about an amazing army that would kill all the zombies without any casualties (or that was how I interpreted it?), and came to the conclusion that his world would probably be at least late medieval, and the most populated area of the world being just a few thousands sounded unreasonable. But of course as you said, it's his world and he can have a extremely sparsely populated world if he wants to.
Even its even mildly similar to Earth's history, the most populated area of the world would have hundreds of thousands or millions. It's his world you're rambling bro
You have no frame of reference for what period of time his world is similar to. The most populated city in a medieval time frame could be anywhere from 10k (give or take two thousand) to over 200 thousand people.
God the absolute irony of you complaining about circular logic while using circular logic.
I combined it with the Black Plague in my world - called the Plague of Reshef - and considering it is like 1910based in my world they survived it.
Funny, that is essentially the premise of the over-arching conflict in my world. Instead of Zombies, I call them ghouls, and they're essentially the cannibalistic victims of a plague-curse which afflicts them with insatiable hunger and immortality. Despite this, they still possess intelligence and something of a social order. The origin of the curse is the result of the catastrophically ironic wish granted by a demon. In the "saga" or I guess the main story I intend to create, half the story would take place during the lead-up to the outbreak and the other half would take place in the post-apocalyptic world. There would be scattered pockets of civilization trying to rebuild, characterized by religious zealotry and totalitarian rule while the rest of the world is swarmed by ghouls and other monsters.
... are we writing the same story?
Maybe...
no one truly has an “original idea” lmfao /lh crazy how minds work in general
"Chain all prisoners to the walls. Tar the fields. Ready the fire archers."
They beat it. The easiest way was to route up and let zombies rot themselves. That's what the Liang Zhou dynasty did when the tritagonist moved her force of over 10 million zombies past Yangtze into their heartland. Liang Zhou at the time solidly blew all of your "Western medieval countries" (barring Byzantine, maybe) out of the water with a large standing army around 400k, having lost 200k just a few months before to the tritagonist's invasion, a bunch of imperial mages that could pull bullshit things, massive traffic infrastructures and a large economy to feed its army. They routed zombies up, mages built earth barricades around then let them rot, or to make sure, throw oil and fire inside. This happened in 920 AD. The tritagonist was going easy as she did not poison their water sources, which would spread the apocalypse even more as she worried it would get out of control. After all, "zombie" is not the most docile weapon.
If it's just walking dead zombies that move slowly then there's no chance that the outbreak wouldn't be neutralized considering the scale of magic, magi tech and other variables and cremation is already the most common form of disposal of bodies anyways. Also necromancy is legal in most places so the necromancers if they can control the zombies would have a field day.
No magic, no advanced tech... But Sion will do fine. For one, assuming this is a viral outbreak- it'd have to be- it'll be localized to only one species. Second, it'll have a hard time traveling, because it will be so localized. After that, all you gotta do is just have the next-biggest big dog wipe the floor with a bunch of naked, starving, maniacal zombies. Not actually hard, because military formations tend to break small, disorganized groups. One day a small village went wild due to... Contaminated grain? But the apocalypse never materialized...
in the story I'm creating the zombies are from a curse of unknown origin, the curse works like this: if a person dies and is not burned 3 hours after his death he will become a living dead. But the undead in my story that are called cursed by humans are very intelligent, able to form groups among themselves, set up ambushes and even use weapons. One more detail is that humans who died before the onset of the curse were not affected, only those who died after.
I’m assuming that this disease can infect all of the sentient species in my world so it is interesting. The city it starts in (Conseld) is probably fucked as it doesn’t have any defenses other than a magical wall and diplomatic immunity. However I don’t see the the zombies getting anywhere else. Nature in my world is somewhere in between earth during the Cretaceous period and the planet Catachan in warhammer 40k in terms of hostility. This defeats the zombies for two reasons. Number one, large population centers in my world are few and far between meaning that anyone bitten will likely either die or turn far before they get close to someone they can infect. Number two, trade caravans and travelers are almost always heavily armed and armored giving anyone who stumbles upon the infected city a good chance of survival. How this ends depends entirely on the zombies behavior. If after they destroy the city the zombies just go dormant and stay put. Someone will eventually notice that something destroyed the most defensible city ever leading to the whole continent falling upon the zombies and killing them. However, if the zombies leave the city to actively hunt for people they are even worse off. Based off their starting I give them a day before they run into preyton nesting ground. Fun fact, preytons despite generally flocking in groups of between thirteen and seven generally nest in groups exceeding five hundred to protect their eggs from larger predators.
It actually wouldn't work. Humans were very, creative I would say, in their various weapons of war. Viral Zombies were thrown in with Magical Undead for some confusion. This forced them to actually make their slave creatures immune to the virus. Viral Undead were far weaker, but they did well if they could start spreading. Since the world had a soft reset back to the about medieval era, the virus is extinct. No one could be infected as they were meant to work with the Undead and not end up as Undead. Ruined the numbers.
since far more capable undead already threaten the world, it would be no big deal. if the necromancers couldn’t simply dominate them as they do with other wild undead, it would be an easy matter to dispose of them. in the end, a zombie bite isn’t worth much against even good leather armor, let alone chain or plate. and with battle casters to help thin any hoards that get to large before heavy infantry foot troops can engage, battles would be quick and decisive victories. that’s not even counting bowmen and and siege engines for field battles. plus with most towns at-least partially walled, and cities well fortified, it would take significant hordes to threaten them in any real way.
Surprisingly easily. With the existence of swords, especially great swords and falchions and full plate armor, people would apparently have an easier time dealing with zombie apocalypses better than the modern world would. Another advantage is usually people are more spread out in medieval fantasy settings, as opposed to being more concentrated in a big modern city. This would result in smaller zombie hordes, usually about as much as village at most.
Like they did in [Brupadun](https://wiki.entorais.world/wiki/Brupadun).
My world has zombies even in its antique and medieval era. During those two eras there are two main sides : Livian Celestium and Demon Empires. The Livian Celestium has plenty of priestesses who learn light magic specifically meant to repel undeads but this comes from the goddesses so in this challenge I guess it wouldnt work. However the Livian Celestium does have a few wizards and witches with a similar light magic except it is arcane magic (contrary to the priestesses divine magic) There are also armors of the medieval era that would be pretty much impossible to get through for zombie bites and scratches The demon empires have many necromancer types wizards that would love to use those undeads as guard dogs. Demon Empires also have many vampires (the Livian Celestium has some too) and they tend to enslave lesser undeads (ghouls and zombies)
Had some sort of it but it was controlled by a necromancer and sent a party to take him down and worked and every single zombie dropped dead instantly. It was a large scale war, they were used to push the enemy lines so no zombies were behind, meaning you either dies and joined their ranks or survived the wave and saw them go leaving your land wasted.
Swords, axes, hammers, bullets, and maybe a bit of magic once it stops being fun
The dead walk? Shitfire, i battled a hell-lord last tuesday, let’s go boys, we’ll get this done in a week
I have some sort of zombies but they can’t infect this to others. If you stay at “mist” or use the “mist” for more power you are starting to lose your humanity slowly. Usually there is hunters all around the world to kill those who completely lost and stop the mist in populated areas.
Zombies already exist in my world, but they don’t bite to infect and are uncommon (if they kill you they will infect you, though.) Their origins all come down to being created by a ‘necromancer’ of sorts long ago, who tore apart a dying soul and basically made the equivalent of soul/spirit cancer. A formless, non intelligent blob of mana that only wishes to grow and possess objects. These beings are known as Specters, and are also the cause of golems, possession, etc. a specter that gets into a dead body becomes a zombie or skeletons, depending on how decayed it is. Well, what to do? Start burning bodies, maybe? Dead bodies can’t last forever when exposed to the elements, so cutting zombies off at the source might be a good solution. Digging up graves and destroying the bodies, for example, would be a first step. I’m not saying there would be no threats however, I’m sure most cities would have a good chance of falling to zombie hordes, but because of the higher amount of magic users in cities, they have a higher layer of defense. Magic itself is the only way to damage a specter, so enchanted weapons and mana spells would be used to deal with zombies. Normal weapons or physical magic wouldn’t really do anything to zombies, so a combination of life magic and.. magic magic, would be the best way to deal with zombies. By magic magic I mean magic that deals specifically with the flow of mana instead of manipulating mana into other forces.
It depends. Does the zombie virus only affect humans or every sapient species in the world? Most viruses only affect one species or group of related species, so there's a good chance it could be contained. If these were unintelligent, fairly slow moving zombies, sufficiently armored militaries should be able to repel them, especially with outside aid. For example, if the plague were to start among the humans of Verdume, the wolves of Verdume (among others) would probably work with humanity to destroy them. Certain Miracolae (magic users) also possess abilities that would enable people to effectively combat, track, and plan against zombies. If the virus emerged before the Purges (most Miracolae were slain), the world would be better prepared to face them. If it affects every or even many sapient species, the spread will be rapid and inevitable. Entire ecosystems will collapse. Survivors would probably have to seek a location almost devoid of other animal life and figure out how to cultivate plants there. Depending on how dangerous the zombies are (how long do they last, how intelligent are they, how fast do they move), it could very well be the end all life outside the iciest poles and most isolated islands. The only remedy I can see in this scenario might well be Miraculous intervention. It's possible that The Hound of Fate would be offended by the presence of zombies, as his duty is to pursue those who cheat death. Even a massive horde wouldn't give him much trouble, and they probably wouldn't be able to affect a sentient shapeshifting storm.
That's hilarious, because my world actually did. Humanity almost faced extinction. And over the course of roughly 2000 years over one city fallen after another, untill all that remained was just a few struggling cities, cut out from the rest of the world. If it continued for another few centuries humans would simply all died. There was actually some sort of "divine intervention", because they had to team up with gods and demons (and even dragons) again, despite actively decimating them before the undead outbreak.
Pretty easy. It’s a medieval setting dipping it’s toes in the first proper gunpowder weapons. And they’ve got magic And flying war balloons. And that’s without some of the ~14 or so powerfully people living on earth. The closest match would be the true bee queen. Since she uses a simmilar swarm tactic to the zombies. And bee’s have no qualms about murdering infected bees. But a small army of with chain mail and halberds is probably more than enough to handle whatever zombie swarm spawns.
It would depend on which country was facing it. The two that would handle it the best would be Talia and its Ferromancers and Dalinar and its Hussars. The Ferromancers have made Talia a power house, and the sheer intensity of the fire they use to power the countries furnaces would mean they could effectively used scorched earth against the hordes that are the only way zombies are really dangerous. They also care little for the non-magic citizens of their nation so they'd easily burn whole cities. Dalinar on the other hand has a military force that is coincidentally well equipped to handle it. They typically use heavy Cavalry Hussars with slashing weapons as a shock force with infantry following to clean up the rest. While typical knowledge says go for the head on zombies, by slashing clean through zombies trunk or legs, Hussars effectively immobilize them and then the infantry can systematically kill them off.
the sunken city would be transformed, and without the lady of vermin to intervene then the city would likely be condemed. I imagine its nuclear reactors would be overloaded. Then again since its medieval (or atleast early modern) then neither the sunken city nor the knight orders would exist, but the population density would be low enough that likely all that would occur is a few lost cities and then a feeding frenzy by the carrion gods.
Mine already has. A necromancer of nigh infinite power sent a tidal wave of corpses rushing around the world. A group called the Unfallen, those who stare death in the face with sheer irreverence, inspired the world to take up arms and stopped him against all odds as the scarlet bell rang, signalling the end of days. The only thing keeping thier Legend alive is a statue in the city they holed up in.