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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8756355" data-attributes="member: 2209">I am most familiar with the 3e stuff and I don't have the 5e DM's Guild book. The boons thing you cite out of that one is probably the strongest example if the only factors are faith and magical boon.In the 3e core book The undying explanation is more qualified in places. Page 218 for example says "The elves believe that it is the devotion of the family that preserves the spirits of the undying. As a result, an elf is expected to be deeply familiar with the lives of his undying ancestors, and to show respect to all of the undying."Other references can be taken as less qualified page 216: "In the center of the island-continent lies a region where necromantic energy flows easily, and it was here that the elf Priests of Transition discovered the rites and rituals required to preserve their elders beyond death. Sustained by the veneration of their descendants, these undying elves have guided their country for more than twenty thousand years." Although that sounds like it could be more tied to the specific magic used by the priests of transition and to the nature of the Undying than to the power of faith or belief on its own in the world.</blockquote>