Why don't undead freeze in winter?

[Eddie the head]

If you take the Draugr from Skyrim for instance, I always assumed they were simply strong enough to break free from any ice they happened to be entombed in.

That would mean being having ice surround them rather than their bones and flesh themselves freezing. In the case of draugr, and most undead, I think they've probably got some kind of internal heating that goes along with whatever force is driving them.

Or we could just accept that them not freezing in winter is significantly less ridiculous than them existing in the first place and just suspend our disbelief.

Or since they resemble mummification a lot of salt. Get rind to water you get rind of the freezing problem.

 

[Vigormortis]

Why don't the undead freeze in winter?

For the same reason they don't rot away to an amorphous blob of ooze and bone within days or weeks of dying.

For the same reason they're audio-visual acuity somehow increases after death, sometimes even being granted night vision.

For the same reason other environmental forces don't seem to wear away their bodies.

For the same reason they, as rotted bags of flesh, are somehow simultaneously super-humanly strong and squishy as a water balloon.

For the same reason they sometimes exhibit intelligence, awareness, even memory and forethought, yet can't avoid simple traps or environmental dangers nor perform even the most basic of tactile tasks; like opening a door.

For the same reason they crave human flesh, yet seem to have no digestive faculties nor any meaningful need for sustenance.



That reason?

Spoiler: This right here...