Skellies are just parasites that take over the bones of the deceased and use them like a mecha/gundam. A stick-insect but in the shape of a human, and made out of bone. the skeleton of the heaviest, tallest, fattest, strongest , bigest and most enourmous human probably weights less than 20 kg. Even a scrawny kid can throw a 20kg weight without much effort.
is there any way to make a skeleton foe to be anything but ridiculous? Maybe even menacing? Probably I' should start by changing the name from "skellies" to something else, but that's for another day.
A skeleton that is literally just bone has no connective tissue holding it together, nor any muscles that can cause it to move. I struggle to imagine what this parasite looks like, it sounds like it's pretty much already using magic to animate the skeleton, as it doesn't add any mass or actually replace any of the elements that allow a person's skeleton to move in the first place.
the parasite is like a rooting system that connects the bones, the same way broken or cut bones are medically re-connected using nails along the height of the bone inside the hollow part. but not made of metal...it's just like rooty material, something biological
like in the image but not made of metal and going throu the entire skeleton.
