Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 7490622" data-attributes="member: 79428">- Druids are the priests of the Old Faith, which is centered on an alternative pantheon of Great Elder Spirits. The animating spirit is said to be the true essence of a being, with the immortal soul being devised by the gods as a means to steal spirits away from the natural world. Upon death followers of the Old Faith surrender their souls to the Soul Serpent to be devoured, freeing the animating spirit to become one with the follower's homeland, where it melds with other spirits to be reincarnated in a new form. People who reject the Great Elders and worship the gods are pitied, as they have forsaken oneness with the community of spirits that have watched over and melded with their homeland, their ancestors, and all other things since time immemorial in favor of departing for an afterlife in an unnatural plane with distant gods.- The Border Ethereals of the Material Plane and Feywild thrum with living spirits waiting to manifest when conditions are right. Druid and ranger spells manifest this spiritual energy, and some barbarians manifest it as well. Unlike beings like angels or demons, which have discrete identities as individuals, these spirits wait in forms that are nearly imperceptible even in the Ethereal Plane for a chance to manifest briefly in myriad forms. The vines of a druid's entangle spell or the spirit-echo temporarily reconstituted from a long-discorporated mortal identity through the speak with dead ritual are as much an incarnation of the spirits as the manifestation of a boggle or red cap.- Nearly all spirits of the Material Plane and its echoes were born from the essence of the countless elementals that were bound together to make the world. Though most of those elementals sleep, many discarded their original identities to become the spirits of plants, beasts, and fey.- Though the living spirits can take on ghostly forms, they are not the same as undead. The living spirits are animated by the force of the Positive Energy Plane because they have been permitted to dwell within the Border Ethereals of the mortal realms. Incorporeal undead, on the other hand, persist in defiance of the will of the living spirits and are denied access to the power of the Positive Energy Plane as a consequence, meaning that they have no other choice than to channel the power of the Negative Energy Plane.</blockquote>

Verification