Resurrected Human

Gasping for breath and beating against the inside of his coffin, Sir Haranhel - alive once again - struggled to bring himself up out of the ground. Looking up, Yasada Oken saw a bald sallow figure standing over his crypt chanting ancient tongues beneath the moonlight while blood dripped from his eyes. Struck down on the battlefield, a greatsword swung clean through her neck, Lanorah Tovall rose again from amidst a pile of fallen comrades, searching frantically for her head.

However you were brought back to life, all resurrected humans were once dead and now have been brought back to the plane of the living.

Scars of Death

Most Resurrected Humans do not remember their life before death, unless when resurrected they were told their past by the power that resurrected them. What they do remember is the time they spent in the clutches of death. Depending on how you acted, what gods you worshipped, or what your alignment was your soul ended up in one of the outer planes after death. In your new life you have fragmented memories of your soul's time spent in this plane. Whether it comes to you in your dreams or if it is triggered by different things - your soul is scarred by your time in the afterlife.

Your physical body is also different from the last time you were alive. If your soul manifested itself within a new form then you now inhabit that body, but if you returned to your old body then it has some visible changes from being uninhabited for so long. patches of rotting flesh, missing meat from maggot molestation, pale skin, eyes, and hair; your body does not retain its health in death.

A Resurrected Human's Past

Your past will come back to affect you. No matter what vessel you now inhabit, your soul still has strings thst connect you to other souls and places. In your past life you formed a vast web of connections and things were bound to get stuck in it. In your new life, whether you know it or not, you will encounter things from your past life. In some of these cases you will feel an innate sense of familiarity or sometimes even dread. Certain things or people will resonate with you in a way you can't quite understand. And sometimes you may even be directly approached by someone from your past who knows who you are.

Whatever the case, your life before kicking the metaphorical bucket still resides within your soul. You may

remember it, or maybe none of it at all. It may come to you in mysterious way. Unbeknownst to you, or maybe fully known, you are not a new soul.

Resurrected Human Names

Your name has been lost. Your new name could be given to you by someone around you when you first are revived or maybe you chose it for yourself. It's something you will have to discover.

Resurrected Human Traits

Resurrected Humans generally share the same traits as living humans.

Ability Score Increase. Your ability scores each increase by 1.

Age. Resurrected humans share the age of the body they now inhabit.

Alignment. Resurrected Humans tend toward no particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

Size. Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Languages. Vou can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Humans typically learn the languages of other peoples they deal with, including obscure dialects. They are fond of sprinkling their speech with words borrowed from other tongues: Orc curses, Elvish musical expressions, Dwarvish military phrases, and so on.

Darkvision. Your time spent outside this plane has left you the gift of seeing in the darkness. You can see dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You cannot discern color in darkness.

Numb to Pain. Due to your deadened nerves, you no longer feel any sort of pain. You also no longer fear death or pain.

Chill of Death. Your demeanor can suggest that something unnatural happened to you. When you want to, you can exude an air that subtly hints at your formerly deceased status. When this is in effect, normal people naturally tend to avert their gaze and consciously avoid acknowledging you. While you are in groups or public places, unless they are directly affected by your conduct or they have some duty to engage with you, most people prefer to let others deal with you. This might mean they fail to report (or claim they "didn't notice") minor criminal acts you commit to the city guard, or fail to challenge you when you are in a place they know you ought not to be. Unless it affects them directly or it's their job to deal with such things, they hope someone else takes care of it.

The effect is quite opposite on clerics of deities who deal with the dead, necromancers, and sentient undead. While others are inclined to look away, the attention of those comfortable with death is immediately drawn by your close connection to the grave.

This feature need not always be in effect, and you can choose to put on a mask of seeming normalcy and let your natural charisma shine through. On a deeper level, though, perhaps this unnaturalness is the "real" you.