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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5688970" data-attributes="member: 50895">Sure you can. But once you die in Kaidan, even if you leave sometime in your next life, whenever you die elsewhere you will reincarnate into a new body in Kaidan - that's the trap. In Buddhism, the goal is to achieve enlightenment. If you do not your soul is trapped in the Wheel of Life - 6 distinct hells in which the world we live in now is one of those hells. The Wheel of Life is existence in Kaidan, but a bit more convoluted. The Japanese social caste system reflected in Kaidan as the noble, samurai, commoner, animal and tainted castes are five of those hells, with the sixth being a hell more similar to the Christian hell, actually one of the planes of the Abyss. Depending on your accumulated karma point score (accrued through your deeds in life) + d20 roll (modified by possible related spells) determine where you go - in which caste will you reincarnate. Possibilities also exist as rebirth in a new born (become an NPC), sentenced to hell (become an NPC), become a yurei ghost (NPC or apply a ghost template to your PC). In order to escape, one needs to attain enlightenment. The path to enlightenment is counter to the goals of the empire, so the powers that be do not want anyone to achieve enlightenment - thus enlightenment is heresy in Kaidan. Enlightenment is the esoteric means of escaping. Attain it and you're permanently out of the cycle. Since there is no 'dark powers' mechanic as in Ravenloft, the dark lords of Kaidan were determined at its foundation and consist of tragic figures in Japanese history (the losers of the Genpei War 1180 - 1185 AD). And the fictional provincial houses as branches of the Taira clan, or supporting factions of that losing side of that ancient war. The dark lords of Kaidan are already fixed, nobody can become a dark lord of Kaidan.</blockquote>

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