About Undead

[starshinemonarch]

I was taking a look at Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead the other day at Barnes and Noble, but there is one thing I didn't find in there that I wanted to know:
Is it possible to become a Good-aligned undead? They were talking about undead with Character Classes and Undead as PCs, but I must have missed the part about alignment.

Okay, say you're a Mhorg. The corpse of a criminal who hasn't atoned for your sins. If you were in enough agony of being kept in a state of undeath, would you have the capability to become good and at least try to repent? That's the basic idea of what I'm asking.

[Aegir]

There are several kinds of good (or at least non-evil) undead, and while in your example, a Mohrg is by its nature inherantly evil, its still got sentience and a sense of self, so its entirely possible for it to want to repent. Of course, a properly RP'd atoning Mhorg would battle against its nature for a long time (for fans of the Buffy/Angel series, its not unlike what Angel and, later on, Spike went through). Libris Mortis even gives a few examples of exactly the undead you mention spending its existance atoning for the actions that made it what it is, so no, its not impossible, but it would be a battle against the very nature of their existance.

Beyond that, there are forms of undead that are inherantly non-evil. There are Archliches, which are basically good-aligned Liches, or Baelnorn, which are undead Elves and tend to be good/neutral, and Eberron has a form of undeath called Deathless which is common practice for a few Elf clans to preserve their elders.

[prominence]

There's also Sacred Watchers in BoED, which is where the Deathless type was first introduced iirc.