[i][b]The Undead[/b][/i]

The undead are a race that is independent and separate from all the other races. The only exclusion is that when they die, that is when they are able to become an undead. It is a race that is controlled by the use of pillars to support itself, aka a hierarchy is used to determine the power of the undead. Most of the time the undead are a neutralistic race, however when twisted and provoked they, become what you fear most. However, sometimes it is not their fault as with the use of necromancy the will of the dead can be twisted into horrifying things. The main goals of the undead who remain true and untwisted is to guide the souls of those who have died to their afterlife; whether as an undead being or another species it is the choice that the souls make.

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Reincarnation

Upon death, the person’s soul is briefly removed and put into a relatively safe location, where it then undergoes metamorphosis becoming the first basic stage of being an undead, as well as rebirth. A crystal, it is the physical representation of the soul which can vary in many colors and size and has special properties depending on what they did in their life. The crystal itself, in purely invisible to the living and undead, existing on a separate plane known as the Aether. The Aether is where death and life connects and is where these crystals remain until they become a spirit. Inside the Aether, it is filled with mana and charges these crystals til they glow brightly. This stage of metamorphosis usually takes up a week, until the crystal crumbles away leaving a blue wispy being in its remains. 

This is the second stage of becoming an undead, in which this is where you either are reborn or continue the trek of becoming an undead being. In this stage, the crystal has transformed itself into the spiritual representation of the soul and is ejected out of the Aether, as they are now considered to be an living yet actually not an living being. In this stage, if they wish they were given a pearl upon breaking out of the crystal and they would have to let the orb absorb them into it. The pearl represents the womb of a parent, in which they are born into and shatters after they become absorbed which represent the process of development of a new baby and the death of their past life along with the removal of their experience being an spirit.. (then all the natural stuff happens)

Path of the Dead

This is where becoming an undead splits, one way of advancing to the next stage of an undead being while still being in this form, requires another metamorphosis. This will then determine what type of undead they will become, with one being the physical apparition and then the spiritual apparition.  
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