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<blockquote data-quote="kagayaku" data-source="post: 7082639" data-attributes="member: 6876021">Hi, thanks for reading!Here's the deal - I like this idea and think that (though it's probably been done a thousand times before) my players will enjoy it, but I don't know enough about... anything really... in D&amp;D lore to know how to implement it; I'm fairly new to the whole thing to be honest.I want to have a race of unusually short lived Dwarves who, upon the death of their king or queen bind that monarch's soul to a lovingly forged and constructed, articulated sculpture of that ruler. The ruler then lives on for generations more to provide guidance to the next ruler and their people. A previous ruler once tried to use this power to save a lover, dividing his people and causing a civil war in which he died and a small group of his supporters escaped the kingdom with his body and soul, never to be seen again.These dwarves aren't evil (they will cover the full spectrum of alignments as any large society would) but particularly pious nearby settlements may consider them so. I'm thinking that extremely rare magical gems beneath their mountain can be painstakingly searched for and mined to make this process possible, and that this is essentially a non-evil use of necromancy, but I don't know if this fits in with the way souls and necromancy work in D&amp;D.How would you go about implementing this?Thanks for reading and happy RPing!kagayaku</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kagayaku, post: 7082639, member: 6876021"] Hi, thanks for reading! Here's the deal - I like this idea and think that (though it's probably been done a thousand times before) my players will enjoy it, but I don't know enough about... anything really... in D&D lore to know how to implement it; I'm fairly new to the whole thing to be honest. I want to have a race of unusually short lived Dwarves who, upon the death of their king or queen bind that monarch's soul to a lovingly forged and constructed, articulated sculpture of that ruler. The ruler then lives on for generations more to provide guidance to the next ruler and their people. A previous ruler once tried to use this power to save a lover, dividing his people and causing a civil war in which he died and a small group of his supporters escaped the kingdom with his body and soul, never to be seen again. These dwarves aren't evil (they will cover the full spectrum of alignments as any large society would) but particularly pious nearby settlements may consider them so. I'm thinking that extremely rare magical gems beneath their mountain can be painstakingly searched for and mined to make this process possible, and that this is essentially a non-evil use of necromancy, but I don't know if this fits in with the way souls and necromancy work in D&D. How would you go about implementing this? Thanks for reading and happy RPing! kagayaku [/QUOTE]

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