I've been doting on a term that I can't seem to place, and hell, if it needs made up, then I'm all for ideas.
I recently started a campaign where, in my players backstories, they were required to have died. Some of them picked noble deaths, and others picked gruesome, tragic ends.
No skin off my ass of course, as they all ended up in the nexus, but there's where my problem begins.
One such player, a person living in the chilling pass of Argosal, and most definitely not a kitsune, i'm serious, hana, died. They died at Argosal's front gates, and what better for a Lich to do with a dead body than raise it? But here's where things get tricky.
When my players died, the Nexus had been running for quite some time. Their souls drifted far up, and got to the Astral plane, a point where they would change directions and head for their respective alignment. Here is where the complication begins.
The soul ended up funneling through the nexus, an unfortunate fact, for them, as it's what started the whole campaign, but they went through the soul font, got caught, and the energies that be grabbed the soul out of the trap and crushed it where it was.
The crushed soul fell to the ground, sprinkled, if you will,
Uh, is there a question here? You never say what word you're trying to find.
this sounds interesting, maybe...although it sounds like your players are starting the game irrevocably dead what with the crushed souls and stuff.
also...what was the question?
S&@$, I must've accidentally hit "Submit Post" whenever I thought it was trying to go back a page. I could've sworn I hit cancel in time, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Here's the complete thing:
I've been doting on a term that I can't seem to place, and hell, if it needs made up, then I'm all for ideas.
I recently started a campaign where, in my players backstories, they were required to have died. Some of them picked noble deaths, and others picked gruesome, tragic ends.
No skin off my ass of course, as they all ended up in the nexus, but there's where my problem begins.
One such player, a person living in the chilling pass of Argosal, and most definitely not a kitsune, i'm serious, hana, died. They died at Argosal's front gates, and what better for a Lich to do with a dead body than raise it? But here's where things get tricky.
When my players died, the Nexus had been running for quite some time. Their souls drifted far up, and got to the Astral plane, a point where they would change directions and head for their respective alignment. Here is where the complication begins.
The soul ended up funneling through the nexus, an unfortunate fact, for them, as it's what started the whole campaign, but they went through the soul font, got caught, and the energies that be grabbed the soul out of the trap and crushed it where it was.
The crushed soul fell to the ground, sprinkled, if you will, onto the ground where it slowly took the form of the person in question, a moment just before its death. In this person's case, his leg snapped back into place, along with his completely turned head. One of the more unruly brute wights gave him quite the indian burn... to his face.
Anyways, the weird part, is that his body Didn't go anywhere on the material plane. He is fully capable of walking back up the pass, looking down at his body, and losing his mind as a result. One of the side effects happens to be that if you stare at your dead body, it's as if you came under the effects of a haunt. A rather high will save, too.
So here's the thing.
What would you call this? The body isn't capable of being affected by resurrection as the soul is destroyed, yet the body, while somewhat incorporeal in the Nexus, is corporeal and normal everywhere else. The Body is still affectable by animate dead spells, or other things that don't much require a soul.
I've fancied the idea that they're just Ether taken raw form, but they're most definitely not undead, ectoplasmic, ghosts, or anything of that sort.
As of this moment I'm just referring to them as Aetherlings, as "Aether" is apparently what they're made of. I was merely wondering what they could also be referred to as, outside of that.
The "Body" is the dead husk back in the pass, laying down, or in this guy's case, walking around as a zombie of sorts. The "Soul" is what's incorporeal in the nexus, and corporeal everywhere else.
Suggestions?
Someone should really delete that other thread.
Revenant?
Revenant isn't really key because they have no drive to go and kill whoever killed them, really. They're just told to stave back the plot device, and they're more than welcome to just sit in the bar the whole time with the other random people that've had similar things done to them.
Incarnation would require them to be the embodiments of something, and I don't think you can be the embodiment of yourself, haha.