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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8420700" data-attributes="member: 2209"><a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/184631/Beneath-the-Festered-Sun-5E?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Beneath the Festered Sun (5e)</a>5eKapanek's Shadow: The undead arose spontaneously after Kapanek’s demise, a result of the rupture in her soul the moment she died.Five Aspects Of The SoulAccording to the belief system defended by Kapanek and her followers, every person exists thanks to the communion of distinct parts of the self, namely:Ren: the name, foundation of one’s identity, without which no one can be addressed.Ib: the heart, seat of moral, emotions, and rationality, where the essence of life lies.Sheut: the shadow, a gift from the sun god Ra. A parallel, unbound existence that moves through realms the body cannot reach.Khat: the physical body, shrouded in all the mysteries of its perfect inner workings, with which one interacts with the material world.Akh: the spirit, transfigured in death to exist immortally in the afterlife.When Kapanek died, her innate arcane abilities and the power of her curse split her soul into these different aspects, which were harvested by Kerux and given form through disreputable deals and necromantic magic.Her sheut dwells in the Anubians’ camp.Undead: ?Shadow: If a non-evil humanoid dies from [Kapanek's Shadow's strength drain] attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.Mummy, Undead Mummy: The creature inside the library is in fact Kapanek’s mummified body, reanimated as an undead monstrosity.Five Aspects Of The SoulAccording to the belief system defended by Kapanek and her followers, every person exists thanks to the communion of distinct parts of the self, namely:Ren: the name, foundation of one’s identity, without which no one can be addressed.Ib: the heart, seat of moral, emotions, and rationality, where the essence of life lies.Sheut: the shadow, a gift from the sun god Ra. A parallel, unbound existence that moves through realms the body cannot reach.Khat: the physical body, shrouded in all the mysteries of its perfect inner workings, with which one interacts with the material world.Akh: the spirit, transfigured in death to exist immortally in the afterlife.When Kapanek died, her innate arcane abilities and the power of her curse split her soul into these different aspects, which were harvested by Kerux and given form through disreputable deals and necromantic magic.Her sheut dwells in the Anubians’ camp, while her mummified body stored in the House of Hallowed Resurgence perpetuates the physical khat.The night Kapanek died, Kerux went back for her corpse. He removed Kapanek’s heart and placed it in an enchanted canopic jar, along with the blood scraped off the ground, and then had the body mummified in honor to their post mortem doctrines. For centuries, Kerux kept the mummy and jar safe from harm, but about sixty years ago, he found a new purpose for these physical remains. Kerux reached out to a then young Yaro, who was starting a surreptitious business building constructs and experimenting with the creation of undead.Yaro’s collection of yearly journals, cleanly organized and labeled, contains not only notes on the hundreds of constructs and undead created over the course of a career, but also a detailed account of a meeting with someone named Kerux, described as a man bearing a jackal’s skull for a head, about sixty years ago. These passages present numerous notations, question marks, and underlined words; they stand out from the otherwise clean and organized entries. The issue seems to have been some sort of obsession in Yaro’s life. The notes include the following facts.Kerux commissioned the making of an undead mummy out of an unidentified embalmed cadaver, and a blood golem, using a heart and harvested blood as raw materials.Yaro accepted the job, paid in advance, and within a couple of months finished the mummy.Undead Monstrosity: ?Wight: A wight, the last project Yaro worked on before dementia completely took hold, still dwells in the laboratory.</blockquote>

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