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UNDEAD

Undead

ORIGIN & HISTORY

Playable undead in Symbar

Symbar

Legendary capital of the fallen Symbaroum empire. Never found. Every treasure hunter's ultimate prize.

Read more →oum are a recent and poorly understood phenomenon. These are humans who died and then mysteriously returned to life — not as mindless shambling corpses, but as thinking, feeling beings trapped in slowly decaying bodies.

Discovery means death — again.

The cause of their resurrection varies and is often unknown even to the undead themselves. Some were raised through necromantic interference; others simply woke in their graves with no explanation. Whatever the cause, they are thoroughly corrupted — their very existence is a violation of natural law.

THE STRUGGLE TO HIDE

Undead

Undead

Revenants — people who died and returned. Consume raw flesh to heal. Corruption reduces their max HP.

Read more → characters must conceal their nature from everyone. Discovery means death — again. The Church of Prios

Church of Prios

The dominant religion of Ambria. Worships the sun god Prios. Immense political and military power.

Read more → hunts undead with zealous fervor. Even tolerant barbarians will kill a revealed undead without hesitation.

To maintain their disguise, many undead rely on Twilight Tincture — an alchemical preparation extracted from the extremely rare Twilight Thistle found in Davokar

Davokar

The endless ancient forest north of Ambria. Divided into Bright, Wild, and Dark Davokar. Grave of the Symbaroum empire.

Read more → ruins. This tincture has moderate medical uses for the living but was recently discovered to disguise undead symptoms: restoring skin color, body temperature, and the appearance of breath.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Without Twilight Tincture, undead show progressive signs of decay — pallid skin, cold flesh, absent breathing, and eventually visible rot. With the tincture, they can pass for living beings, though the effect is temporary and requires regular doses.

CULTURE & SOCIETY

There is no undead community. Each undead character exists in total isolation, hiding among the living while slowly losing their grip on the life they once knew. They are immune to corruption (being already thoroughly corrupt) but must feed on living flesh to sustain themselves — a horrifying secret that adds another layer to their concealment.

HOW OTHERS VIEW THEM

Universal revulsion. Every faction — Ambrians

Ambrians

Civilized human refugees from Alberetor. Hierarchical, expansionist, devoted to Prios.

Read more →, barbarians, elves, the Church, even other undead — would destroy a revealed undead character. There is no safe harbor.