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轮回者(Samsarans)
轮回者是谜一般的类人生物,他们有着蓝色的肉身,以及如同娟娟流动的小溪般的透明血液,就算是年轻的轮回者也是古老的生物。轮回者的生命并不是简单地从生到死直线前进,而是一个从生到死然后重生的轮回。只要轮回者死去,他就会重生为一个年轻的轮回者开始一段新的生命。她过去的记忆会变得含糊不清——并且每次重生以后轮回者会变成不同的存在,拥有不同的人格,如同父母和孩子。
轮回者看上去和人类相似,有着深色的头发和无瞳的白色眼睛。他们的肤色看上去像是阴暗的淡蓝色。
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輪迴者(Samsarans)
具有回憶前世教訓和失敗的能力,輪迴者都試圖過著明理和諧的人生,以確保他們死後能再次重生,繼續他們在歷史上的旅程。
生理特徵:輪迴者看起來像是有著泛清蒼白色皮膚的人類,單色的眼珠沒有瞳孔或虹膜,頭髮則是深色的。輪迴者的血液澄澈透明,如同純淨的山泉水一般。
社會:輪迴者偏愛內省的、學究的和虔誠的生活。他們試著讓生活遠離經常造成道德負擔的野心和貪婪,因為他們將今生看做是未來眾多來生之一。任何近幾世未竟的事業都可以在下一世,或是往後的人生中完成。輪迴者對前世的記憶並不完整--這些記憶通常像是印象模糊的夢境一樣。輪迴者可以生育,但他們不會生育輪迴者--而是生出人類的孩子。通常,輪迴者在小來出生不久後就會放棄他們,讓他們在人類社會中平凡地成長生活。在死後,如果他們渡過了和諧的一生,這些後代有時會轉世成輪迴者孩童。雖然多半輪迴者都會轉世成輪迴者,但也不總是如此。當一個輪迴者這輩子在保持和諧上完全失敗,或是完美地成功,他的靈魂會來到the Great Beyond接受它最後、遲來的報償或懲罰。輪迴者不會用姓氏,但經常會無論性別地沿用前一兩世的名字來取代姓氏,來紀念前世的成就或提醒過去的恥辱。
與其他種族的關係:人類與其他種族常常誤會輪迴者的天性。許多人害怕甚至憎惡輪毀者與死亡之間不尋常的關係,最好的情況是認為他們是被下了奇怪詛咒的靈魂,而最壞的情況則是認為他們是得到肉體的怨靈。
陣營與宗教:多數輪迴者屬於守序善良--但其他陣營的輪迴者也有可能存在。絕大多數的輪迴者十分虔誠,即便不是牧師也會選擇守護神,而月夜(Tsukiyo)輪迴者一族的守護神則是最普遍被崇信的。
冒險者:冒險讓輪迴者看盡各種世界奇景,深化他們對生命的認識,還有探訪他們對前世的模糊記憶中的地方。
女性名字:Chimi, Mindu, Nalita, Rema, Sonitri, Treeni, Yeshing
男性名字:Agyen, Bakji, Dakash, Henar, Puran, Sonan, Thukten
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Samsarans
Samsarans are a race of quasi-immortal humanoids bound simultaneously to the material world and the realm of spirits. Almost ghostlike in appearance, samsarans have dark hair, white eyes that lack both pupil and iris, and pale blue skin, beneath which flows their crystal-clear blood.
A samsaran is aware of her previous lives through incomplete memories and dreamy recollections, and she knows that she will continue to live after death through reincarnation. Samsaran philosophy teaches that each life is but one incarnation of the many it will go through in its spiritual journey toward transcendence.
Samsarans give birth to human children, whom they usually give to human societies to raise in a fashion befitting a human. Upon death, some of these children reincarnate as samsarans, but only if they have lived a life in keeping with harmony. Samsarans usually reincarnate as samsarans upon death, but one who has either fallen completely out of harmony in her latest life or who has lived in the most harmonious way possible instead faces a different fate, as her soul makes its way to the Great Beyond for its final punishment or reward.
In pursuit of spiritual perfection, samsarans generally live simple, ascetic lives apart from most other societies, though many choose to experience the richness of the world, and take to adventuring to deepen their understanding of life.
B4
Samsarans are a race of humanoids whose spirits
naturally reincarnate into another samsaran upon death.
They have dark hair, pale bluish skin, and eyes with no
visible pupil or iris. A samsaran’s blood is clear like water.
Each samsaran is born with the knowledge that it
has lived before, and shall continue onward after death
through the cycle of reincarnation. When a samsaran
dies, its body fades from sight, and another samsaran
child appears somewhere and matures at the normal rate.
Samsarans can reproduce with humans and produce true
human offspring.
Typical samsarans pursue simple, ascetic lives apart
from mainstream society. They live in small isolated
farming communities as individuals or couples, with
older samsarans adopting newly manifested children.
Some work as consultants, mediators, prophets, or seers.
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SAMSARANS
The enigmatic samsarans are among the most mysterious
of the Dragon Empires’ indigenous races, for they inhabit
the cycle of birth, life, and death in a way wholly apart
from the rest of creation. A samsaran appears human,
save that she has pale blue skin, solid white eyes with
no pupil or iris, and blood as clear as the waters of a
mountain spring. Samsarans’ strange relationship with
life and death leaves the typical individual with a frail
physique that makes her more susceptible to aff liction or
harm. Yet death holds no true fear for the introspective
and swift-witted samsarans, as they know that their
deaths only begin the next cycle in their souls’ existence.
Samsarans do not propagate by the typical methods
common to most other races. Samsarans can father
children or give birth, but their children are always human.
In most cases, such children are given up for adoption to be
raised in human societies. This is not done out of cruelty
or neglect, and indeed giving up a child for adoption is
often a traumatic and tearful occasion for a samsaran
couple. This tradition is believed to be for the good of
the child, as robbing a human child of the opportunity to
grow up among her kin denies her a fundamental element
of her life experience. When such a child eventually and
inevitably dies, whether from misadventure or natural
causes in old age, she reincarnates as a samsaran child
in the same way that samsarans themselves reincarnate
into new bodies after death. Typically, when a soul
reincarnates as a samsaran, she does so into a new body
that initially appears to be that of a child or young adult;
thereafter, the body ages normally. When samsarans perish
far from their homelands, they are often reborn alone
in the wilderness or amid a non-samsaran society—a
frightening and disorienting experience, to say the least.
A newly reincarnated samsaran often recalls fragments
of her multiple past lives in the form of half-remembered
dreams, and among these fragments are inevitable memories of life among other samsarans. By following
these dreams and visions, most samsarans eventually
make their way back to their own kind. Although in many
cases the dangerous journey results in multiple deaths
and reincarnations along the way, samsarans believe this
process too is an essential part of being a member of their
race. All samsarans hope to live better in each cycle of
rebirth, and to someday achieve harmony and move on to
the Great Beyond, but for them, that goal is not the point of
life. The journey to the goal is what defines a person, after
all, and to a samsaran, the twists and turns of the story
itself are far more satisfying than the conclusion.