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>> Interviewer: Tell me more about these special undead. | >> Interviewer: Tell me more about these special undead. | ||
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>> Subject: Shadowfringe. They're called shadowfringe. So you know what happens when a graven hulk is defeated and the bloodstone heart shatters? You get an instant outpouring of the maddened souls that were fueling the hulk. | >> Subject: Shadowfringe. They're called shadowfringe. So you know what happens when a graven hulk is defeated and the bloodstone heart shatters? You get an instant outpouring of the maddened souls that were fueling the hulk. | ||
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>> Interviewer: Alright. I'm with you. | >> Interviewer: Alright. I'm with you. | ||
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>> Subject: So then ask yourself. Where do you go if you're an insane, stone-less soul? Well, some burn themselves out attacking anything living in glorious rage and agony. In the process, they destroy their own existence on this plane, and pass on. Some are turned by divine force and pass on. Some travel back to where they died, because they feel a connection such places, and haunt them like any other ghost. | >> Subject: So then ask yourself. Where do you go if you're an insane, stone-less soul? Well, some burn themselves out attacking anything living in glorious rage and agony. In the process, they destroy their own existence on this plane, and pass on. Some are turned by divine force and pass on. Some travel back to where they died, because they feel a connection such places, and haunt them like any other ghost. | ||
But some, some of them wander. They still strike out at the living without purpose or reason, but they don't spend their whole energy on the attacks. They can be driven off. | But some, some of them wander. They still strike out at the living without purpose or reason, but they don't spend their whole energy on the attacks. They can be driven off. | ||
These that wander, they're drawn to others' suffering and desperation. They can sense it and track it. Perhaps the very worst kind of suffering is undeath without free will. Some of the stone-less souls find undead beings and linger near them. And some of those find a way to entwine their energy with a host body. They becoming a hybrid being, part immaterial, part solid, more powerful than either constituent part. | These that wander, they're drawn to others' suffering and desperation. They can sense it and track it. Perhaps the very worst kind of suffering is undeath without free will. Some of the stone-less souls find undead beings and linger near them. And some of those find a way to entwine their energy with a host body. They becoming a hybrid being, part immaterial, part solid, more powerful than either constituent part. | ||
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>> Interviewer: You're saying that these ghosts can possess… other undead? We have no data on ghosts possessing vampires and such. | >> Interviewer: You're saying that these ghosts can possess… other undead? We have no data on ghosts possessing vampires and such. | ||
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>> Subject: Not possess. Entwine. Enmesh. Like calls to like. And I'm talking about enslaved undead, like zombies, not autonomous undead like vampires. The host has to be in a state of abject suffering and hopeless despair. Full of anger at their state of being. Just like the stone-less soul. That's what makes it work. | >> Subject: Not possess. Entwine. Enmesh. Like calls to like. And I'm talking about enslaved undead, like zombies, not autonomous undead like vampires. The host has to be in a state of abject suffering and hopeless despair. Full of anger at their state of being. Just like the stone-less soul. That's what makes it work. | ||
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>> Interviewer: And you call them shadowfringe. | >> Interviewer: And you call them shadowfringe. | ||
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>> Subject: Yes. Because they exist on the boundary between our world and the Shadowfell. And that's what makes them so remarkable. If either constituent part is defeated, the other part will restore it. The most common specimen is a shadowfringe zombie. Defeat the zombie in the Prime Material Plane and the stone-less soul will restore it. Defeat the soul in the Shadowfell, and it will withdraw into the zombie and regenerate. | >> Subject: Yes. Because they exist on the boundary between our world and the Shadowfell. And that's what makes them so remarkable. If either constituent part is defeated, the other part will restore it. The most common specimen is a shadowfringe zombie. Defeat the zombie in the Prime Material Plane and the stone-less soul will restore it. Defeat the soul in the Shadowfell, and it will withdraw into the zombie and regenerate. | ||
If the hybrid is strong or has been together for many years, restoration can take mere minutes. This makes a veteran shadowfringe nearly indestructible. | If the hybrid is strong or has been together for many years, restoration can take mere minutes. This makes a veteran shadowfringe nearly indestructible. | ||
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>> Interviewer: It sounds like you… admire them. | >> Interviewer: It sounds like you… admire them. | ||
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>> Subject: I have spent much of my life pursuing the idea of a perfect soldier. Can you imagine any being with better potential to ascend to such perfection? | >> Subject: I have spent much of my life pursuing the idea of a perfect soldier. Can you imagine any being with better potential to ascend to such perfection? | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:34, 24 July 2019
Document
Raptor Blue seized this file from the Berrett Airfield Foundry. The Foundry had been used by Caterina Berrett and her followers (as a cell in the Brotherhood of the Shroud), to study shadowfringe.
Excerpt from Interview with Subject TS-421
>> Interviewer: Tell me more about these special undead.
>> Subject: Shadowfringe. They're called shadowfringe. So you know what happens when a graven hulk is defeated and the bloodstone heart shatters? You get an instant outpouring of the maddened souls that were fueling the hulk.
>> Interviewer: Alright. I'm with you.
>> Subject: So then ask yourself. Where do you go if you're an insane, stone-less soul? Well, some burn themselves out attacking anything living in glorious rage and agony. In the process, they destroy their own existence on this plane, and pass on. Some are turned by divine force and pass on. Some travel back to where they died, because they feel a connection such places, and haunt them like any other ghost. But some, some of them wander. They still strike out at the living without purpose or reason, but they don't spend their whole energy on the attacks. They can be driven off. These that wander, they're drawn to others' suffering and desperation. They can sense it and track it. Perhaps the very worst kind of suffering is undeath without free will. Some of the stone-less souls find undead beings and linger near them. And some of those find a way to entwine their energy with a host body. They becoming a hybrid being, part immaterial, part solid, more powerful than either constituent part.
>> Interviewer: You're saying that these ghosts can possess… other undead? We have no data on ghosts possessing vampires and such.
>> Subject: Not possess. Entwine. Enmesh. Like calls to like. And I'm talking about enslaved undead, like zombies, not autonomous undead like vampires. The host has to be in a state of abject suffering and hopeless despair. Full of anger at their state of being. Just like the stone-less soul. That's what makes it work.
>> Interviewer: And you call them shadowfringe.
>> Subject: Yes. Because they exist on the boundary between our world and the Shadowfell. And that's what makes them so remarkable. If either constituent part is defeated, the other part will restore it. The most common specimen is a shadowfringe zombie. Defeat the zombie in the Prime Material Plane and the stone-less soul will restore it. Defeat the soul in the Shadowfell, and it will withdraw into the zombie and regenerate. If the hybrid is strong or has been together for many years, restoration can take mere minutes. This makes a veteran shadowfringe nearly indestructible.
>> Interviewer: It sounds like you… admire them.
>> Subject: I have spent much of my life pursuing the idea of a perfect soldier. Can you imagine any being with better potential to ascend to such perfection?
