The World of Abadonya

Lives Without a Straight Beginning

The Reborn are most strongly associated with Eirlyn, where small communities can be found in secluded woodland valleys, old monasteries, scholarly houses, and settlements gathered around sacred springs.

A Reborn does not view a single lifetime as the entirety of existence. Death remains meaningful, but it is commonly understood as one turning of a much larger wheel.

A new incarnation is not a perfect continuation of the old personality. Each life forms its own relationships, ambitions, fears, and beliefs. What survives are fragments: recurring dreams, instinctive familiarity, flashes of emotion, and skills that sometimes feel older than the body using them.

Pale Blue Skin and White Eyes

Reborn resemble slender humans with pale blue skin, dark hair, and solid white eyes without visible pupils or irises.

Their blood is clear rather than red and resembles clean spring water, a feature that many Eirlyn traditions connect symbolically with renewal and memory.

Clothing tends to be simple and practical. Jewelry is usually personal rather than decorative, especially when it represents a place, person, or symbol remembered from an earlier life.

Many Reborn use names that echo earlier incarnations. Some preserve one or two former names as titles or family-like markers, not because the previous lives are identical to the present one, but because they remain part of the same long spiritual journey.

What Returns With the Soul

Past-life memory among the Reborn is incomplete. It may surface as a dream of a place never visited in the current life, an instinctive reaction to a stranger, or sudden competence with a subject that should be unfamiliar.

These fragments are treated seriously but cautiously. Reborn scholars warn that memory can be incomplete, symbolic, or emotionally distorted.

A person who feels certain they once failed at a particular task may devote an entire lifetime to correcting it. Another may choose to leave the past alone and build a completely different life.

Neither approach is considered wrong. The cycle preserves possibilities, not obligations.

Records for Lives Yet to Come

Reborn communities tend to value reflection, education, spiritual balance, and patience. Their settlements rarely resemble conventional kingdoms. Instead, many form small houses of scholars, healers, gardeners, priests, archivists, and travelers.

Written records are extremely important because personal memory does not survive reincarnation perfectly. Some Eirlyn houses maintain journals written across multiple incarnations of the same soul.

Reading such a journal can be unsettling. The writer may recognize the handwriting, concerns, and instincts of an earlier self while still feeling that the person who wrote those pages is partly a stranger.

This practice has given the Reborn a reputation for maintaining exceptionally deep personal and family archives.

Choices Beyond One Lifetime

Many Reborn believe that choices echo beyond a single life, even when the details are forgotten.

In Abadonya, Mandella attracts Reborn scholars because of his connection to wisdom and preserved truths. Trentula is also respected through traditions centered on natural cycles, renewal, and the continuity of life.

Others follow entirely different deities or philosophical paths. The Reborn do not possess a single universal doctrine regarding why reincarnation occurs or what lies beyond it.

Some believe the cycle ultimately leads toward spiritual completion. Others simply accept reincarnation as part of their nature without assuming it has a predetermined destination.

Standard Pathfinder 1e Racial Traits

Ability Score Modifiers: Reborn gain +2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, and –2 Constitution.

Type: Reborn are humanoids.

Size: Reborn are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to size.

Base Speed: Reborn have a base speed of 30 feet.

Languages: Reborn begin play speaking Common and Reborn. Reborn with high Intelligence scores can choose any human language, Abyssal, Aquan, Auran, Celestial, Draconic, Giant, Ignan, Infernal, Ophidian, Tengu, and Terran as bonus languages.

Lifebound (Ex): Reborn gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws made to resist death effects and negative energy effects, Fortitude saves made to remove negative levels, and Constitution checks made to stabilize when reduced to negative hit points.

Shards of the Past (Ex): A Reborn chooses two skills. The Reborn gains a +2 racial bonus on both skills, and those skills are treated as class skills regardless of class.

Low-Light Vision: Reborn can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light.

Reborn Magic (Sp): A Reborn with Charisma 11 or higher can use comprehend languages, deathwatch, and stabilize once per day each. Caster level equals the Reborn's character level.

These are the Pathfinder 1e racial mechanics used for Reborn characters in Abadonya.

Alternate Racial Traits

Mountaineer: A Reborn with this trait is immune to altitude sickness and does not lose their Dexterity bonus to AC while making Climb checks or Acrobatics checks to cross narrow or slippery surfaces. This replaces Lifebound.

Mystic Past Life: A Reborn spellcaster can draw upon spellcasting knowledge from an earlier incarnation, adding a limited number of spells from another spellcasting class to the spell list of the character's current spellcasting class, subject to the normal arcane/divine restrictions and published limits. This replaces Shards of the Past.

These options use the normal Pathfinder 1e alternate racial trait replacement rules.

Keepers of the Half-Remembered Road

Eirlyn is the principal homeland of the Reborn. Its ancient forests, secluded monasteries, sacred waterways, and long-lived communities offer natural refuges for a people whose sense of history spans repeated lives.

Some Reborn settlements are known only to druids, elves, and travelers trusted with old forest routes. Others stand openly near centers of scholarship and healing.

Reborn occasionally recognize ruins, roads, shrines, or clearings they have never visited in their current lives. Such moments can become the beginning of personal pilgrimages—or dangerous adventures.

A Road Walked Before

Many Reborn adventure to understand recurring dreams, locate places remembered from earlier incarnations, correct old failures, or discover whether someone important from a former life still survives.

Clerics, monks, oracles, wizards, witches, rogues, and other knowledge- or insight-focused classes are common, though Reborn can pursue any class.

For a Reborn adventurer, a journey may be completely new—or it may be the continuation of something begun centuries ago by a life remembered only in fragments.

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