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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8877029" data-attributes="member: 57383">Oh, I forgot one trait of the Dragon #254 Cairn:"although sunlight does not harm these creatures, they abhor and actively avoid it"So they don't have Sunlight Sensitivity like a 5E <a href="https://www.5esrd.com/gamemastering/monsters-foes/monsters-by-type/undead/wight" target="_blank">Wight</a>.The Ecology section of their entry also mentions they have the common undead flavour of natural animals sensing and shunning them, and vegetation near their lairs (a quarter mile radius) "withers in a matter of months," although this may not be noticeable as Cairns are isolationists* who prefer to dwell in mountain caverns with nothing but snow and bare rock around.* Which reminds me. The Dragon's Bestiary Cairn "never dwell in groups of more than three, however, and even these small gatherings are rare. Undeath brings with it a sense of isolation and desire for solitude. Some cairns deliberately distance themselves from their former clans to eliminate all possibility that they will return and destroy their old families in a jealous rage at the fact that they are still alive."That's quite different to the Dodkong, whose Cairns, the "Dead Chiefs", help rule a community of living Stone Giants and extends his influences over their neighbours.</blockquote>