Withers in BG3 says he is niether alive nor undead. (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by HubertManne@piefed.social to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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Undead is already an indeterminate state between dead and alive so he is saying he is between alive and an indeterminate state. Hes undead.

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

He's not undead. Undead in d&d has a fairly loose but set range of meaning, it isn't an indeterminate state. It is, within that context, determinate.

He's a former deity, jergal. This means that he has a different status, and if you look at the options you get when first talking to him as a cleric, it says something about him being steeped in divine energy.

He's more of a demigod

[-] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I found out that he's an avatar of Jergal the other day. So he's correct, he's not alive or undead, he's a divine entity.

[-] hamms@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

He's not saying he's between those two things, he's saying he exists entirely outside of that paradigm.

Which he does, because Withers is >!an avatar of Jergal, the former god of death!<

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