Post by X on Dec 24, 2008 22:06:27 GMT -5
This came to me in a dream, so don't expect too much, 'cause I haven't been sleeping and am not quite sure when this reached me... Oh, and I made the name on a whim, lol.
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The Phaetorai are wandering quasi-immortals with the patronage of Frackleth, although the patronage doesn't really count for anything as frackleth could care less. He made them and that was the end of his involvement. They possess a mortal body, but when ever said body dies, their soul takes on physical form. For example, you kill one that at the time of death had a particularly jolly and young spirit, the body falls away and standing above the corpse would be a jolly young person.
They don't have any one culture and can come from any species/group as they are the result of Frackleth getting lazy and setting up a sort of instant reincarnation over one of his stacks of paperwork, the parts of which come from every where as people everywhere die all the time and Frackleth hasn't gotten around to or even thought of breaking the world into areas.
Since they come from all over, there is no basis for magic or skills among them, and even the label 'Phaetorai' is something that one of them came up with and it just happened to catch on among the populace. There is nothing binding between them, and no real way to tell if a person is one except to kill said person and see what happens (which has happened before. It's a bit similar to witch trials in which either way the person loses and the watchers get a spectacle).
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The Phaetorai are wandering quasi-immortals with the patronage of Frackleth, although the patronage doesn't really count for anything as frackleth could care less. He made them and that was the end of his involvement. They possess a mortal body, but when ever said body dies, their soul takes on physical form. For example, you kill one that at the time of death had a particularly jolly and young spirit, the body falls away and standing above the corpse would be a jolly young person.
They don't have any one culture and can come from any species/group as they are the result of Frackleth getting lazy and setting up a sort of instant reincarnation over one of his stacks of paperwork, the parts of which come from every where as people everywhere die all the time and Frackleth hasn't gotten around to or even thought of breaking the world into areas.
Since they come from all over, there is no basis for magic or skills among them, and even the label 'Phaetorai' is something that one of them came up with and it just happened to catch on among the populace. There is nothing binding between them, and no real way to tell if a person is one except to kill said person and see what happens (which has happened before. It's a bit similar to witch trials in which either way the person loses and the watchers get a spectacle).
