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y-rhywbeth2 · 1 month

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While 5e has remembered that 1e had elves having spirits instead of souls, meaning that they weren't capable of a permanent afterlife and were forced to reincarnate, they seem to have forgotten* that orcs and half-orcs also had spirits and had to follow these rules. Along with anyone else that wasn't human, half-elven, dwarven, a gnome, or a halfling (or later, planetouched. Dunno about dragonborn.)

*If they have remembered the orcs, I haven't seen it or heard anybody mention it.

Like hey, half-orc characters, you should probably reincarnate too if we're bringing that back.

#we're always forgetting things because the elves are hogging the limelight #also I *finally* found that passage again!#in my defence not bothering to look in deities and demigods for a decade is normal: 1e. That book.#I don't know the rationalle between half-elves being 'more human' than half-orcs and as this is early DnD I don't want to tbh #(Yes I'm still procrastinating on that drow culture writeup; do you know how much cross referencing there is.)#lore stuff

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