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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 1864325" data-attributes="member: 2795"><p><strong>The Dark Effluvium</strong></p><p></p><p>The night after our near-disastrous fight beneath the ruins has passed without incident. Thank Garl for that favor. We’re heading back to the ruins in a short while. My companions are making ready: sharpening arrow heads, tightening armor straps, breaking fast. I’m too tense to eat, although I know I should.</p><p></p><p>My religious training in the ways of Garl is rather pedestrian. I’ve never had much patience for theological study. Still, I have sat at the feet of a few teachers, and I remember a few of my lessons. At this moment, I particularly recall Elder Thomenkin’s lectures on the undead.</p><p></p><p>Water, heat, and air move in currents, and these currents sustain life. As everyone knows, for example, the heat of the sun causes plants to grow. This is amply shown by the lack of plant-life in icy regions. Of course, hot deserts have an overabundance of heat but little plant-life, but that is because nature there is out of balance between heat and water, so that hardly counts against the fact that the sun’s heat causes plants to grow. Of course, I’m not sure why plants won’t grow in warm, subterranean areas. Maybe they need light also?</p><p></p><p>Anyway, that’s not my point. The things that sustain life move in currents. That’s the important point. So too about that thing which sustains unlife. There’s an evil current, invisible and intangible, but still potent, that courses through the material world from the negative energy plane. Thomenkin called this the “dark effluvium” or the “infernal efflux.”</p><p></p><p>The dark effluvium is probably dimly intelligent, and it is certainly malevolent. It responds to evil intentions and is attracted to great suffering. This is why an evil cleric can rebuke the undead, or why a person who dies after a horrible betrayal sometimes rises again as a vengeful undead monster.</p><p></p><p>A cleric of good-will, such as I strive to be, can channel positive energy from his deity against the infernal efflux. Most often, this disrupts the undead’s sustaining energies only slightly, causing the undead to retreat in what appears to be mortal terror. A good cleric of sufficient experience can completely severe an undead creature from the dark effluvium, thus destroying the unholy creature.</p><p></p><p>I’m certain the under-ruins are a place where the dark effluvium flows strong and fast. I pray we are not drowned in its cold depths.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Chance, post: 1864325, member: 2795"] [b]The Dark Effluvium[/b] The night after our near-disastrous fight beneath the ruins has passed without incident. Thank Garl for that favor. We’re heading back to the ruins in a short while. My companions are making ready: sharpening arrow heads, tightening armor straps, breaking fast. I’m too tense to eat, although I know I should. My religious training in the ways of Garl is rather pedestrian. I’ve never had much patience for theological study. Still, I have sat at the feet of a few teachers, and I remember a few of my lessons. At this moment, I particularly recall Elder Thomenkin’s lectures on the undead. Water, heat, and air move in currents, and these currents sustain life. As everyone knows, for example, the heat of the sun causes plants to grow. This is amply shown by the lack of plant-life in icy regions. Of course, hot deserts have an overabundance of heat but little plant-life, but that is because nature there is out of balance between heat and water, so that hardly counts against the fact that the sun’s heat causes plants to grow. Of course, I’m not sure why plants won’t grow in warm, subterranean areas. Maybe they need light also? Anyway, that’s not my point. The things that sustain life move in currents. That’s the important point. So too about that thing which sustains unlife. There’s an evil current, invisible and intangible, but still potent, that courses through the material world from the negative energy plane. Thomenkin called this the “dark effluvium” or the “infernal efflux.” The dark effluvium is probably dimly intelligent, and it is certainly malevolent. It responds to evil intentions and is attracted to great suffering. This is why an evil cleric can rebuke the undead, or why a person who dies after a horrible betrayal sometimes rises again as a vengeful undead monster. A cleric of good-will, such as I strive to be, can channel positive energy from his deity against the infernal efflux. Most often, this disrupts the undead’s sustaining energies only slightly, causing the undead to retreat in what appears to be mortal terror. A good cleric of sufficient experience can completely severe an undead creature from the dark effluvium, thus destroying the unholy creature. I’m certain the under-ruins are a place where the dark effluvium flows strong and fast. I pray we are not drowned in its cold depths. [/QUOTE]
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