The rebirth ability of a brightness seeker says that you gain a negative level but this goes away automatically when you gain a level. Bringing it up specifically like this suggests that you gain a level and lose the negative level (so you effectively gain two levels). It seems weird to me but it does seem to be the raw. Does anyone have any insight on this?
It's a negative level per RAW - you have -5 max health and take a -1 on all rolls. Not an actual "You're level 8 instead of level 9" negative level like (god) 3.5.
Thank you.
I'm still used to 3.5 negative levels.