CHARACTER DEATHS

[beleos]

CHARACTER DEATHS

When a character's body suffers fatal damage, they dissipate around their Shards - but as long as the Shards themselves are not destroyed, a Shard-Bearer will return to life. In order for this regenerative process to take place, however, Shards must be brought to the Tree of Life - a place to which all Bearers are innately connected. (This knowledge is well-known by all Bearers in both Highstorm and Springstar, and thus you can handwave how your character came about the details.)

A Bearer's Shard must be placed near the Tree's base; it will slowly sink into the earth until buried. Over the course of the next 5-7 days (your OOC choosing), a cocoon of moss, roots, and soil will begin to emerge from the ground - and as long as the Shard held within is not disturbed, the Bearer will regenerate and revive from within. Once the process is complete, they will 'hatch' from their cocoon like a newborn birdling - with or without outside assistance. They will find themselves weak and generally unwell for the next few days; the time of their recovery is up to you. Whether they bear scars or permanent disfiguration as a result of damage suffered prior to dissipation is up to you.

Should your character die, please fill out the form below to report this to the Loremasters! You may receive some Interesting Information about the journey your character takes while their bodies are coming back into being...

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Aspect:</b> <b>How they died:</b> Please provide context for their death - for example, "mercy killed by a friend via decapitation," "stabbed in the back by an enemy," "took a catastrophic fall down a well and broke their neck at the bottom after tripping." <b>When they died / when they'll revive:</b> Please provide the OOC dates! <b>Pick a number from 1-10:</b> Pick a number, any number! <b>Are you OK with some Lore Bits upon revival?</b>
Please note: If your character dies under circumstances that would see their Shard with an enemy who does not intend to let them revive at the Tree or dies in a manner where their Shard is not retrieved by an ally who will bring them there, please reach out to a Loremaster! We can assist you in making sure they aren't stuck in limbo.

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[beleos]

The process takes a few days as from the roots of the Tree, Liem is reborn.

It’s a process that’s surprisingly quiet, like waking from a pleasantly long nap. And during that process, there are flickerings across his consciousness. Not all of them will be remembered, since they’re the sorts of dreams that are on the tip of your tongue, but one stands out a bit more.

He’s standing at the Tree of Life, looking up at the endless sea of stars that surrounds it, when someone steps up to join him. Gently, they place a gloved hand on his shoulder, and their one eye is full of sympathy and sorrow. They immediately feel familiar as one soul touches another. This is the person whose soul had been trapped within the creature.

“I’m so sorry,” he says first, and it’s clear he means it, deeply, but with just as much conviction, he says, “Thank you. Both of you. I didn’t want to hurt you or anyone else, but…”

Manon shakes his head as he withdraws his hand. He seems lost in thought for a moment as he looks down at his feet, but his eye comes back up to meet Liem’s without too much delay.

“This isn’t an easy connection to maintain, so let me just give you two things, since I- Well, I don’t know what’ll happen to me. One, I hope you got the image of the guy that was… I don’t know what he was doing, exactly. But my Shard got mixed up with a bunch of others. That’s the best I’ve got for that. But I heard someone else call him ‘Aetós’,” he says, then clicks his tongue. The connection is fading, so he pushes an image forward into Liem’s mind. A cache. “And you were using a knife, so go grab one of mine, if you want. Might be handy.”

His presence fades not long after that, since he doesn’t seem able to hold this strange form of Communion long… But when Liem awakes and frees himself from his sap-filled cocoon, he’ll have some new knowledge imparted to him. He can easily navigate to a place in the residential district of Springstar where he’ll find a fine dagger hidden behind some neatly displaced bricks that make a cavity. Let us know if Liem takes the dagger, and we’ll explain its further properties!

[sterngaze]

Yes, Liem will for sure go looking for this mysterious dead guy dagger! He'll wait until after he's returned his loaned equipment to Highstorm and delivered Manon's shard with Hayame, but he will absolutely seek it out after that.

[beleos]

Liem will find a finely made, dark-colored dagger (its appearance otherwise is up to you), which has two unique properties:
1) While the dagger is anything but direct sunlight, its blade stays razor-sharp without maintenance. When in direct sunlight, it's a normal blade's edge, so still perfectly capable of doing whatever you might need a dagger for, but it may take more force.
2) When thrown (or discarded/disarmed/etc), Liem can immediately recall it to his possession. The blade will simply teleport back to his hand or its sheathe so long as he can still see what the dagger was thrown at.

These properties aren't obvious by looking at the dagger, but you can have him discover it how you'd like/is more interesting to play with! It could be accidental, it could come to him in a dream, etc.