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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tsadkiel" data-source="post: 163467" data-attributes="member: 262">I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I've got an Aleax theory, and wanted to post it somewhere PC's players wouldn't see it, just in case I might be right.  Piratecat, feel free to smite me if this should be somewhere else.My guess is that Ghouleax is an Eletum (from Mythic Races.)  They reproduce by placing a specially charged shard of their own bone in the skeleton of a deceased humanoid - assuming the White Kingdom had an Eletum handy, all they'd have to do is find the right skeleton, and let the "child" know who the body once belonged to, and Bob's your uncle - a sentient, free willed and good-aligned undead who can truthfully say that he's Aleax.  The soul of the original saint, of course, is safely lodged in the sword.There would only be a minimum of divination-fogging magic needed in order to sow confusion, and since Ghouleax is actually a nice guy (and could be a paladin, for that matter), Aeos has a reason for wanting the holy text rewritten to soften the stance on this particular undead.</blockquote>