# Race: Reborn > [!info] Quick Facts > | | | > |---|---| > | **Rarity** | Extremely rare | > | **Perception in Gryth** | Negative. Received with unease rather than hatred. People are not certain what the right reaction is, and settle on distance. | > | **Guide Section** | Transformed Lineages | ## Overview You died, and you are aware of it. What came back is wearing the same body, remembers most of the same life, and finds that the parts it does not remember surface at inconvenient moments and occasionally in somebody else’s voice. ## Returned Without Explanation No reborn knows what animates them. The circumstances differ in every recorded case, the few people who might have been able to account for it have not been willing to, and the reborn themselves have no shared account to offer. What they have in common is the fact of it. A reborn walked away from a death that should have concluded the matter, and has been walking ever since. ## The Body That Kept Going A reborn does not eat, does not drink, does not breathe and does not sleep, though most keep up the appearance of some of these in company. The body does not decay and it does not heal quite as a living body does. Wounds close slowly and scar oddly, and a reborn several decades returned carries a record of everything that has happened to them since. They are also extremely difficult to kill a second time, which is a fact that a number of them have established the hard way. ## Borrowed Memories The memory is the part that unsettles a reborn more than the rest of it combined. Most of the life is intact. The gaps in it are filled, at intervals, by knowledge that the reborn is confident they never possessed: a trade they never learned, a road they never walked, a name spoken in an accent that is not theirs. The knowledge is reliable when it arrives. Where it comes from is another of the questions nobody has answered. ## Held at a Distance A reborn is not hunted in the way a dhampir is, and not hated in the way a warforged is in [[Continent - Ganath|Ganath]]. They are received with unease. People are not certain what the correct response is to someone who has plainly died and plainly not stopped, and in the absence of a correct response most settle on keeping a respectful distance and not enquiring further. ## Reborn Traits Your reborn character keeps the appearance and background of the race you were before, and gains the traits below in place of that race’s traits. **Ability Score Increase.** Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1. This replaces the ability score increase of your original race. **Age.** You do not age, and have not since you returned. **Creature Type.** You are a Humanoid. **Size.** Your size is the size your original race was. **Speed.** Your walking speed is 30 feet. **Ancestral Legacy.** You retain the memories of skills your body learned in life. You keep any skill proficiencies you had from your original race, along with any climbing, flying, or swimming speed it granted. If your original race granted none of these, you instead gain proficiency in two skills of your choice. **Deathless Nature.** You do not need to breathe, eat, or drink, and you are immune to disease. You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the poisoned condition on yourself, and you have resistance to poison damage. You also have advantage on death saving throws. You do not sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in an inactive, motionless state, during which you remain conscious. **Knowledge from a Past Life.** Fragments of a life you cannot fully account for surface when you need them. When you make an ability check that uses a skill, you can roll a d6 immediately after seeing the d20 roll and add the number rolled to the check. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. **Languages.** You retain the languages you knew before. ## Connections - [[Continent - Ganath]] — Where warforged are hated, a point of comparison for how reborn are received --- ## Gallery ![[Race - Reborn.jpg]] --- *See also: [[Races]]*