Jeff the Green
2012-04-29, 10:10 AM
So what happens to the souls of intelligent undead in the Forgotten Realms? I can think of two possibilities:
Their souls depart when they die, and their bodies are reanimated by evil spirits/negative energy which has the memories of their previous life, but isn't actually that person.
Their soul is trapped in their undead body and doesn't depart until they're destroyed.
I'm interested in making a misotheist character who becomes undead to avoid the Wall of the Faithless, but if option 1 is true, it's pointless. But at the same time, option 2 has problems of its own. (What if there's a long lag time between death and reanimation? What if they're destroyed, and then brought back to unlife?)
Their souls depart when they die, and their bodies are reanimated by evil spirits/negative energy which has the memories of their previous life, but isn't actually that person.
Their soul is trapped in their undead body and doesn't depart until they're destroyed.
I'm interested in making a misotheist character who becomes undead to avoid the Wall of the Faithless, but if option 1 is true, it's pointless. But at the same time, option 2 has problems of its own. (What if there's a long lag time between death and reanimation? What if they're destroyed, and then brought back to unlife?)