So, the story is, in short, a cult in charge of protecting...something...knew they could not live as they were for long (isolated, underground, hostile environment), so, they enacted a great ritual suicide. They killed themselves so that they would rise as undead guardians to keep watch forevermore.
I want a few "ranks" of different undead. Some became better, stronger undead for various reasons. I know I will likely be creating custom undead for them, but for the low level scrub guardians, what do I do? Zombies and skeletons are the standard, but lack the zazz I am looking for. They don't really do anything, they're just aggressive bags of hp with unusual DR.
I considered maybe ghouls, but they're wrong both because of the corpse eating thing (there would be nothing to eat) and because I intend to use them in large numbers and rolling three attacks and four easy saves every round for each one is going to get annoying.
What else is there that makes for interesting low level guardian undead? If I can't come up with anything else, I may fudge the ectoplasmic template a bit and allow class levels. The airwalk/phase lurch/shaken on slam combo feels like it could be interesting enough.
