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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8570092" data-attributes="member: 2209">Depends in part on the undead and their specific lore. Usually there is plenty of room for Buffy the Vampire Slayer style undead where evil spirits animate dead bodies without the former souls, or for bodies and former brains to be powered by negative/necrotic energy without the former soul being involved at all. A lot of spawned undead are created with none of their former abilities or knowledge of their former lives. 5e Seems to go both ways with different undead.The 5e shadow for example says:&nbsp;&quot;As a shadow drains its victim's strength and physical form, the victim's shadow darkens and begins to move of its own volition. In death, the creature's shadow breaks free, becoming a new undead shadow hungry for more life to consume.If a creature from which a shadow has been created somehow returns to life, its undead shadow senses the return. The shadow might seek its &quot;parent&quot; to vex or slay.&quot;So the 5e shadow seems to be separate from the creature it is spawned from and its soul.The 5e MM entry for ghosts however says that &quot;A ghost is the soul of a once-living creature, bound to haunt a specific location, creature, or object that held significance to it in its life.&quot;So someone who turns into a 5e ghost, it seems fair to say their soul is bound in the world and not in an afterlife.Different undead and in different editions vary in this type of specific lore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8570092, member: 2209"] Depends in part on the undead and their specific lore. Usually there is plenty of room for Buffy the Vampire Slayer style undead where evil spirits animate dead bodies without the former souls, or for bodies and former brains to be powered by negative/necrotic energy without the former soul being involved at all. A lot of spawned undead are created with none of their former abilities or knowledge of their former lives. 5e Seems to go both ways with different undead. The 5e shadow for example says: "As a shadow drains its victim's strength and physical form, the victim's shadow darkens and begins to move of its own volition. In death, the creature's shadow breaks free, becoming a new undead shadow hungry for more life to consume. If a creature from which a shadow has been created somehow returns to life, its undead shadow senses the return. The shadow might seek its "parent" to vex or slay." So the 5e shadow seems to be separate from the creature it is spawned from and its soul. The 5e MM entry for ghosts however says that "A ghost[B] is the soul[/B] of a once-living creature, bound to haunt a specific location, creature, or object that held significance to it in its life." So someone who turns into a 5e ghost, it seems fair to say their soul is bound in the world and not in an afterlife. Different undead and in different editions vary in this type of specific lore. [/QUOTE]

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