How does the blood oath work?

[MReav]

What happens if someone that isn't related to you fulfils a blood oath? Like, say Some Mook swears a blood oath against Killinator the Terrible. Some Mook gets killed, and the oath passes onto his descendant, Other Mook. However, while Other Mook searches the globe to find Killinator the Terrible, Killinator the Terrible tries to steal a dragon's hoard and gets eaten (or finds himself too drunk one night and it burns down). Is the blood oath fulfilled, or is the Mook family stuck in the coterminous demiplane for all eternity?

[Surfing HalfOrc]

Ummm... Yes?

[Studoku]

Other Mook could probably sort out the oath by sending a thank you card to the dragon.

[chibibar]

Interesting question. BUT considering that we live in a world where the world DON'T revolve around us it is possible that someone could complete the bloodoath for you.

BUT in a gaming world where the world does revolve around the PC, I don't think it will happen, but what if it did?

What is the exact nature of the bloodoath? to see Xykon's fall right? destroy? totally destroy? so as long the wording doesn't get too specific then you (the original oath holder) would be free and clear when Xykon get destroy.

Eugene didn't plan on Xykon being a Lich (not a spoiler since both of them were in a comic) and probably died from old age...... so he didn't think much of it.

[SPoD]

I'm saying this because the OP may not actually know: The Blood Oath is an invention of Rich's for this story, it does not exist in any D&D book. So there are no set rules for it, and no one can give a definitive answer to your question until Rich chooses to tell us via the comic.

However, if the point is just to speculate on what MIGHT happen, by all means, carry on!

EDIT: Just forgot to mention, Start of Darkness shows the Blood Oath being sworn, if that would help.

[chibibar]

Actually Bloodoath exist WAY before Rich's story. In Chinese Folklore, it is something that your descendant must do before the whole family (your elders and such) can pass on if such an oath was made.

[David Argall]

The blood oath works as the writer wants it to, which has not yet been made completely clear to us.

However, any real life blood oath would rapidly become the visible part of a huge rash of rules. See 10 Commandments, and see 10 encyclopedia sets of explanation thereof. So the blood oath is binding on the oath taker, except for these zillion exceptions, which each has exceptions to it, and exceptions to the exceptions and....
Now for the later generations, it gets complicated...

So as any lawyer would tell you about any law "It depends..."