Immortuos

The immortuos come from ritual, dark rituals that bring back the dead. These rituals are illegal to do or even to study in most of Alcott. No one ever admits to doing it. All Immortuos have no memory of their previous life. They almost always wake up in a coffins and must fight their way to freedom.

Physical Description

An immortuos resembles the race they once belonged to. At second glance one will find there is something off about them. Their eyes are dull and glazed over, their skin pale and pulled taut over their skeletal frame. Immortuos are undead and as such the body does not grow older.

History

Immortuos are corpses restored to life. No one truly knows the process that returns the soul back to the undead person. There are many cultist-like rituals and dark pacts that claim to create the Immortous, but none seem to work reliably. While their bodies are restored, their memories are fragmented and their touch with death has left them forever changed.

Society

It is not illegal to be an immortous, but they are often killed, and no one cares. Most people see them as being evil. They try and keep their immortous hidden. They keep to their own as they can and mask themselves as they move into the living world.

Personality

Immortuos, newly revived ones, in particular, are driven by instinct and are skittish and slow to trust. It is entirely possible for an individual to have suffered enough brain damage to the prefrontal cortex to render them unable to feel or express emotion properly. These immortuos are often impulsive and unable to make proper decisions. Adopting one into an adventuring party may prove to be difficult, though rewarding as their sharp teeth, claws and a strong sense of self-preservation make them formidable fighters until the very end. Having massive gaps in your memories of the past sends many immortuos into an identity crisis. If left unresolved, this can be devastating for their psyche. Some immortuos choose to adopt a new identity entirely which is often stolen from someone else or made up from stories they have heard after their revival. It is also argued that a soul being ripped away from the afterlife to be put back into its old body may prove to be traumatic to the immortuos.

Immortuos Traits

A humanoid whose loved ones were unable to bring them back from death fully, resulting in a twisted creature.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2.
Age. Immortuos live forever, sort of. Their body continues to decay over time. It is a slow process, but they are decaying over time. No one has ever seen one die. They either kill themselves or leave normal society. It becomes harder and harder to exist and at some point, it is too much to bear.
Alignment. Immortuos are often of a chaotic alignment; they are very rarely lawful.
Size. Your size depends on your subrace, but they are all Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Undead. You are only considered alive in the most basic definition of the word. Your creature type is humanoid and undead.
Calm Mind. You have been granted a second chance at life and you use this gift to inspire those around you in times of need. As an action you stand tall in the face of adversity, bolstering the resolve of allies in a 30-foot radius, granting them temporary hit points equal to your level. After you use Calm Mind, you can't use it again until you complete a long rest.
Unburdened. The fear of death no longer weighs you down. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.
Languages. You can speak, Common and one other language of your choice.
Subrace. Human or Red Orc

Human

Human immortuos may find it harder to cope with the loss of identity. Despite this, they have managed to turn the unfortunate circumstances of their resurrection around, realizing that the loss of memories and past emotions means they have also lost some of their past weaknesses.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Red Orc

Red orc immortuos may find it a little easier to cope with the loss of identity. Orcs do not have as strong identity and realizing that the loss of memories and past emotions means they have also lost some of their past weaknesses.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

No one knows why and no one really talks about it, but all undead feel a slight pull to the south. As they grow tired of living in the world of the living they often leave to go on a pilgrimage to the west. Where they go and why they do not come back is unknown. It is just a laten desire to go west, that overtakes them at some point. For some this is right away, for others if might be 100's of years after they are reborn.