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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greybar" data-source="post: 1143135" data-attributes="member: 4938">Sidebar: The Lands of DeathThe Grey LandsThis is a Realm that is the opposite of Tala's knowledge and of Llassa's light, veiled in dulling shadows where dead spirits trod forgetting their past.  Here the dead and the norm and strangers who find the world hostile to the living.Planar Traits (to be reviewed against MoP)Mildly Evil Aligned - Good creatures get -2 on Charisma checks with the nativesDarkness Aligned - Casting Light and Healing spells require a Concentration DC15 + Spell Level check.Pervasive Undeath - Turning Attempts are at -4Thanic StormsThe normally still gray skies of the Grey Lands can gather great black thunderstorms.  Charged with negative energy, these roll across the landscape.  Undead air spirits often dance on their edges.  The wind that they whip before them is decidedly discomforting to living creatures.  Undead in these zones feel stronger and revitalized, and will flock to them.In the shadow of the storm itself, undead gain Fast Healing 1.  Perhaps a festering or wounding effect on the living?Returning the Dead: or What does a Raise Dead actually do?It is possible to recover the dead, particularly the recently dead, from the Grey Lands.  The various spells that return the dead allow the soul to be conjured back to the land of the living.  This has the expensive requirement of bribing agents in that realm with something of great value - traditionally diamonds.More powerful forces can be called upon by more powerful conjurers with more valuable offerings.  These more powerful incantations allow for the retrieving agents to work with less information, or for the more distantly dead.  In all of these cases, there is the potential that the desired soul is not available.  It may have been consumed by the creatures of that realm, have translated into celestial or infernal domains, or more sadly: dissolved through sorrow, pain, or forgetfulness.Alternatives to Raise DeadThis opens a potential new means to return the dead to the world of the living.  Rather than contracting with an agent through conjuration, a sufficiently powerful and brave individual could travel directly to the Grey Lands herself.  If the desired soul can be found before other forces get to it, then it could be translated back to the Prime and restored to its body.These are still draft thoughts, crystalized by a substantial round of death amongst my PCs.  I am very interested in other peoples thoughts on this, particularly what loopholes and implications they might raise.  I do not own any of the recent publications concerning death (ex: Ghostwalk or Purgatorium) which might have touched on these ideas.john</blockquote>

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