Talk:Evileye/@comment-33998180-20180618213459/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180724033435

No, they simply didn't respond to him because he wasn't alive.

He attacked them when they were attacking the guards near the gate and to thin their numbers a bit, but they were only responding defensively. He probably could have taken control of them, but such low-level undead were worthless to him and he wanted to generate a lot of evidence of a massive battle, so he destroyed them.

In the LN, he even sends some of his own undead back up to the gate area to bottle up any arriving adventurers and keep them from getting into the graveyard before he's done.