Ooh, this looks fun! So I cant give too many spoilers about the powers in my comic as of yet, but I can give you some of the details about one character and how most of the magic in the setting works in general.
The short version is, the world in Lax Legends is old. Grossly, impossibly old. Old enough to have counted off multiple civilization-ending events that reset scientific advancement along with the calendar. This has left the world littered with artifacts, technologies and biotech far beyond the actual understanding of modern people, but ubiquitous enough to be commercialized or incorperated into the local biome. While the smart thing to do would be to leave things one doesn't understand alone, the temptation of power is too great to ignore, littering the world with people willing to truck in implements or phenomena that seems to operate beyond conventional understanding.
The study of these technologies is commonly referred to as magic.
Enter Richard
Richard has been dead for quite some time. And at no point does it get comfortable for him. Being made of dead flesh, no part of his body is "automated" anymore; he has to think about his heart beating, his lungs filling, every biological function of him is a conscious act.
On the one hand this can be beneficial; he rarely has to eat except to replenish material, doesn't sleep, and can heal from injury so long as his brain's intact and he understands the damage. He's capable of some superhuman feats, so long as he doesn't mind breaking a bone or two in the process, and never has to breathe or rest from exertion save for when a piece of him physically snaps or gives out.
However, getting any individual cell to divide requires direct attention and understanding of what he's trying to do with it, making recovery somewhat less effective than it is in a living body (hence the decay), and the constant mental effort of keeping his body maintaining itself leaves him tired, irritable and distracted at all times.
