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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1849304" data-attributes="member: 6929">I shall rant about my conclusions here. Accurate or not, I hope they are enlightening.What Sejs said. Humans are (presumably) built out of positive energy, some Earth and Water, and precious little Good, Evil, Law, or Chaos (or perhaps quite a bit of each, in relative balance). The positive energy doesn't seem to predispose the alignment of living things - ask a kobold or a unicorn. Heck, ask a balor, it benefits from positive energy in the form of healing spells, so its lifeforce must be identical to ours on some level.Undead, meanwhile, are animated by negative energy. There's something important to realise here: they're animated. Negative energy does exactly the same thing as positive, they just react badly. That's why necromantic powers and negative energy spells hurt people. They're not innately predisposed towards death and decay - they're just the equal opposite of our lifeforce, and when they meet they anihilate.Now, undead are not native negative-life creatures. They're shells animated by negative-life patterns, manufactured by spells or by a self-reproduction clause in their 'parent' undead. Do you think there could be native negative-life creatures without all the stigma attached to undead? Could you animate the dead with positive energy? And why haven't people tried doing that before? Would negative-life people raise positive-life undead? Why are there no negative outsiders?Yes, OK, I've got some ideas on the subject already. But I might refine them further...</blockquote>

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