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Deathless = Revenants?

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#1
koesherbacon
Jun 28, 2010 15:00:16 In 4th Edition, would Deathless elves in Aerenal be Revenants? Or would they be a different monster-thing?

Thanks!
#2
superdeadsmurf
Jun 29, 2010 16:43:26 Are you a player or the DM?

Playing a deathless as a revenant is a really fun sounding idea to me (though I might get the player to change a couple things like the necrotic damage from dark reaping, and require past-life Elf [or dwarf for those from that alternate deathless culture seen in the Dragonshard game).
If I was running encounters where players will be fighting against deathless I would make brand new monsters for them to fight - with maybe abilities like getting healed by Radiant energy.
#3
aladorn
Jul 06, 2010 19:31:43 One of my players is a Revenant Assassin and we're playing her as a Deathless Council Member with an interesting set of powers. Also it bears noting that in the 4e version of Eberron the elves of Arenal don't use radiant they use necrotic to power their undead ancestors. Says it somewhere in one of the two books.
#4
PJammaGod
Jul 08, 2010 1:19:01 To be honest Aladron I've been perusing my 4e Eberron books and I haven't come across any explicit text that demonstrates what power source if any that the Aerenal elves use. The nearest I can find is the Aerenal Half-life feat from EPG (pg 87). Even then it provides a booster to necromantic damage. But I haven't located any text stating that the Aerenal Deathless draw power from Necrotic rather than Radiant sources.
#5
skrapsan
Jul 22, 2010 3:50:07 In the 3.5 edition they stated that the deathless was powered by the positive and sligthly holy energies from the plane of Irian Syrania (think it was Irian). So that would make radiant a natural choice as a power source for the deathless. After all, they do hate undead who is powerd by normal necrotic powers.
#6
koesherbacon
Aug 21, 2010 23:21:03 Wow, I lost track of this topic, but thanks for the input.

I think what I'm going to end up doing in my campaign is this:
Change all their Necrotic attacks to Radiant. Only allow Elves to become Revenants, except for extremely rare circumstances. Basically, they'd be similar to Dragonmarks - 90+% of the time, the Canith mark manifests on Humans, but there is a small chance it could manifest on another race. Same would go for Revenants (Deathless), mostly they would be Aerenal Elves, but on rare circumstances another race could become a revered member of the Deathless if they played a particularly heroic role in Aerenal's recent history.

How's that sound?

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 koesherbacon Jun 28, 2010 15:00:16	In 4th Edition, would Deathless elves in Aerenal be Revenants? Or would they be a different monster-thing? Thanks!
#2 superdeadsmurf Jun 29, 2010 16:43:26	Are you a player or the DM? Playing a deathless as a revenant is a really fun sounding idea to me (though I might get the player to change a couple things like the necrotic damage from dark reaping, and require past-life Elf [or dwarf for those from that alternate deathless culture seen in the Dragonshard game). If I was running encounters where players will be fighting against deathless I would make brand new monsters for them to fight - with maybe abilities like getting healed by Radiant energy.
#3 aladorn Jul 06, 2010 19:31:43	One of my players is a Revenant Assassin and we're playing her as a Deathless Council Member with an interesting set of powers. Also it bears noting that in the 4e version of Eberron the elves of Arenal don't use radiant they use necrotic to power their undead ancestors. Says it somewhere in one of the two books.
#4 PJammaGod Jul 08, 2010 1:19:01	To be honest Aladron I've been perusing my 4e Eberron books and I haven't come across any explicit text that demonstrates what power source if any that the Aerenal elves use. The nearest I can find is the Aerenal Half-life feat from EPG (pg 87). Even then it provides a booster to necromantic damage. But I haven't located any text stating that the Aerenal Deathless draw power from Necrotic rather than Radiant sources.
#5 skrapsan Jul 22, 2010 3:50:07	In the 3.5 edition they stated that the deathless was powered by the positive and sligthly holy energies from the plane of Irian Syrania (think it was Irian). So that would make radiant a natural choice as a power source for the deathless. After all, they do hate undead who is powerd by normal necrotic powers.
#6 koesherbacon Aug 21, 2010 23:21:03	Wow, I lost track of this topic, but thanks for the input. I think what I'm going to end up doing in my campaign is this: Change all their Necrotic attacks to Radiant. Only allow Elves to become Revenants, except for extremely rare circumstances. Basically, they'd be similar to Dragonmarks - 90+% of the time, the Canith mark manifests on Humans, but there is a small chance it could manifest on another race. Same would go for Revenants (Deathless), mostly they would be Aerenal Elves, but on rare circumstances another race could become a revered member of the Deathless if they played a particularly heroic role in Aerenal's recent history. How's that sound?