Urgathoa’s may live in Abaddon, but that’s only because Charon let her live there. Ideologically, Urgy’s undeath was because she wanted to continue to experience mortal pleasures. But continuing with anything mortal is the last thing daemonkind wants. And since clergies often mimic the personalities and goals of their gods, no doubt the cult of the pallid princess would chafe heavily with the cults of daemonic nobility.
^An astute observation. Surprised this hasn't come up before.
Keep in mind that Charon actually will reward mortals with certain means of immortality such as lichdom (while brutally suppressing other forms). He's patient and he recognizes that granting a mortal immortality via undeath is going to create more mortal deaths in the long-run, and eventually that undead mortal will be destroyed. Charon and the other daemons will play a long game if they must.
There's going to be less friction between cults of Urgathoa and those of the Four or the various harbingers than you might think.
Creating undead is a relatively efficient way to populate the Prime Material with autonomous weapons that actively hunt the living.
Charon's got the Undeath subdomain, indicating the creation of the undead is something he actively encourages.
While the Four Horseman may eventually want to defeat Urgathoa and consume all of her petitioners, that's way, way down on the priority list.
Like, probably one of the very last things to do.
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Urgathoa isn't just about undead, but also about hunger and gluttony, excess and waste. Her followers, living or dead, are over-consuming resources that *other* living folk need to survive (in the case of the undead followers, just out of nostalgia, since they don't *have* to eat).
In their own hedonistic way, they are furthering the daemon's goals, partying in the ashes of the fire the daemon's have set.
Pretty much.
Undeath is a means here, more than a goal.
Unchecked, cultists of Urgathoa and their excesses are more than likely to provoke food shortages, plagues, and all kinds of fun stuff that would get the Apocalypse Seal of Approval.
They certainly see the world differently, but they're not really opposed - as long as there are other mortals around that is, and the Horsemen are nothing if not patient.
Urgathoa isn't just about undead, but also about hunger and gluttony, excess and waste. Her followers, living or dead, are over-consuming resources that *other* living folk need to survive (in the case of the undead followers, just out of nostalgia, since they don't *have* to eat).
In their own hedonistic way, they are furthering the daemon's goals, partying in the ashes of the fire the daemon's have set.
Even so, though Undead -- and for that matter Devils and Demons (and probably most other Evil Outsiders(*)) -- want to corrupt the world and relish ruining whatever part of it they are working on, they want to have a world to corrupt, and would be sad (and in serious trouble) if they finished destroying it all. Daemons, on the other hand, really want to finish destroying it all.
(*)Even Qlippoths (including Rovagug) don't want to destroy everything -- they just want to destroy the mortal world because they see it as destroying their world.