The dead cannot return to life, but many people try anyway, hoping this one time, they might be the person who can do the impossible. That their love, despair, or rage is stronger than Lethe’s currents, or their magics more powerful than death itself. Most of the time, the corpse grows cold, and the would-be resurrectionist admits their failure.

But sometimes, the body’s chest hitches with new breath and light returns to its eyes. However, the person looking out of them is not the person who died. The Dark Mother, a strange and ancient force of the Underworld, hears the prayers of the one left behind, feels them scrabbling in dirt and blood, and places a new life in the shell of the departed. Liminals are new souls coaxed into used flesh, which bear scars whose stories they don’t know and can’t tell.

Liminals stand sentinel at the boundary of life and death, hunting the restless dead. They hear the Dark Mother’s call in their minds, and may carry out her will or pursue their own desires. Not alive, but not dead either, they wrestle with where or even whether they fit in among mortals. They’re an uncomfortable reminder of what unknown things might exist beyond death, and a stark reminder that once the soul leaves its shell, that person is gone forever even if the body stubbornly continues on.

Liminals: Born from Black Soil is a sourcebook for Exalted Third Edition. This campaign will fund the finished PDF and deluxe hardcover edition.

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