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<blockquote data-quote="Ketser" data-source="post: 6958093" data-attributes="member: 66805">At some level i agree with the assesment about the conenction between ancestor spirits and death theme, but on the other hands such entities are often treated as ascended above their status as souls of the dead.In D&amp;D sense is hard to speak about them as being death oriented, because everything death oriented/themed in D&amp;D is usually one feet into necromantic stuff and undead, either using them or acting against them. Ancestor spirits really doesn't fit into the standard D&amp;D form. Perhaps the best terminology would be &quot;really minor deities&quot; or a minor deity, but as consisting of group of entities instead of one.I would actually really like 5e to expand on the spirit theme and ideas, both ancestral spirits and spirits of nature/primal forces. In the same way the could get a bit more away of necromancy being always evil or questionable and perhaps find a way to bring in spirits of dead type concepts that wouldn't be necessarily undead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ketser, post: 6958093, member: 66805"] At some level i agree with the assesment about the conenction between ancestor spirits and death theme, but on the other hands such entities are often treated as ascended above their status as souls of the dead. In D&D sense is hard to speak about them as being death oriented, because everything death oriented/themed in D&D is usually one feet into necromantic stuff and undead, either using them or acting against them. Ancestor spirits really doesn't fit into the standard D&D form. Perhaps the best terminology would be "really minor deities" or a minor deity, but as consisting of group of entities instead of one. I would actually really like 5e to expand on the spirit theme and ideas, both ancestral spirits and spirits of nature/primal forces. In the same way the could get a bit more away of necromancy being always evil or questionable and perhaps find a way to bring in spirits of dead type concepts that wouldn't be necessarily undead. [/QUOTE]

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