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<blockquote data-quote="Menchi" data-source="post: 1644004" data-attributes="member: 21182"><p>The thing is that Deathless aren't just undead. Look at the pictures that are provided in the book - they aren't rotting, decaying beings. They are mummified.</p><p></p><p>Think of deathless as anti-liches. They are self-aware and seek to do good actions. To the Elves, it isn't an abomination. The deathless are powered by the positive energy of the Light. They see themselves as the evolution of the soul.</p><p></p><p>They exist to ensure the future of their race, to combat the darkness that threatens Eberron. And to show those upstart dragons in Argonnessen that they're not the only ones who can hang around to plan out schemes over millennia. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>The flaw in thinking of them as abominations is that you end up missing out on what makes Eberron different from traditional D&D settings... nothing is as simple as black and white. The Deathless are positive, and by definition are allowed to live on to continue their noble deeds. But because they plan over staggering periods of time, they are capable of commiting seemingly evil acts because they have worked out that in the long term - say, 250 years - that evil act will bring about an even greater good.</p><p></p><p>It's this kind of realistic ambiguity that makes the whole Eberron setting appeal to me. Deathless ARE undead and they SHOULD be abominations - but they aren't. But they could be... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Conan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Menchi, post: 1644004, member: 21182"] The thing is that Deathless aren't just undead. Look at the pictures that are provided in the book - they aren't rotting, decaying beings. They are mummified. Think of deathless as anti-liches. They are self-aware and seek to do good actions. To the Elves, it isn't an abomination. The deathless are powered by the positive energy of the Light. They see themselves as the evolution of the soul. They exist to ensure the future of their race, to combat the darkness that threatens Eberron. And to show those upstart dragons in Argonnessen that they're not the only ones who can hang around to plan out schemes over millennia. ;) The flaw in thinking of them as abominations is that you end up missing out on what makes Eberron different from traditional D&D settings... nothing is as simple as black and white. The Deathless are positive, and by definition are allowed to live on to continue their noble deeds. But because they plan over staggering periods of time, they are capable of commiting seemingly evil acts because they have worked out that in the long term - say, 250 years - that evil act will bring about an even greater good. It's this kind of realistic ambiguity that makes the whole Eberron setting appeal to me. Deathless ARE undead and they SHOULD be abominations - but they aren't. But they could be... :) Conan [/QUOTE]
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