I'm curious to see what everyone thinks since I'm considering it as a plot point in one of the campaigns I DM. I look at the Nightwalker description, which states that it replaces an individual who enters the Negative Energy Plane, and the only way to bring that person back is to send the Nightwalker back through the barrier to the Negative plane. Therefore, I've been viewing the nightwalkers as the negative personification of the people who cross over since it seems they can't exist on the same plane as their counterpart. So what would happen if a god were to cross the barrier? Would they also spawn a Nightwalker? A stronger Nightwalker? Or something different entirely?
Well it depends what you define as a 'god'? You have to consider if this god has a negative side, then I suppose they would spawn a nightwalker. Otherwise, they might just spawn something entirely different.
It's kinda up to your game's metaphysics and what a "God is." Your theory supposes that a God has a integral incarnation that is it's being. So two off the top of my head possibilities:
1.) Gods lack a true corporeal or integrated "being" that could cross into the Negative plane. Sure an aspect could maybe try to check it out, but would find the barriers impossible to cross, or it gets annihilated and comes back to its being in its home plane. In other word, gods just can't. Nightwalkers as written seem to be doing switcheroos with more mundane less divine forms of life.
2.) Let's say a god could. Maybe a Nightwalker negative image is spawned. I'd worry more though about the god having abanondoned its divine portfolio domain and the consequences of that. If a god of life or light crosses into the Negative Plane and is trapped there, and its the only life and light domain entity with divinity over a particular material plane world, I'd worry about those consequence more than the Nightwalker that might emerge. Maybe the domain follows the god into the negative plane as well and the material plane world basically becomes some sort of touchstone itself to the Negative Plane with some grave, so to speak, cosmic consequences. Orcus, Myrkyll, et al, will be showing up to watch, Vecna working the popcorn machine. If the world isn't irredeemably "negged" perhaps a new god of the abandoned domains can pick up the mantle with the help of some adventurers....
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I'm curious to see what everyone thinks since I'm considering it as a plot point in one of the campaigns I DM. I look at the Nightwalker description, which states that it replaces an individual who enters the Negative Energy Plane, and the only way to bring that person back is to send the Nightwalker back through the barrier to the Negative plane. Therefore, I've been viewing the nightwalkers as the negative personification of the people who cross over since it seems they can't exist on the same plane as their counterpart. So what would happen if a god were to cross the barrier? Would they also spawn a Nightwalker? A stronger Nightwalker? Or something different entirely?
Well it depends what you define as a 'god'? You have to consider if this god has a negative side, then I suppose they would spawn a nightwalker. Otherwise, they might just spawn something entirely different.
It's kinda up to your game's metaphysics and what a "God is." Your theory supposes that a God has a integral incarnation that is it's being. So two off the top of my head possibilities:
1.) Gods lack a true corporeal or integrated "being" that could cross into the Negative plane. Sure an aspect could maybe try to check it out, but would find the barriers impossible to cross, or it gets annihilated and comes back to its being in its home plane. In other word, gods just can't. Nightwalkers as written seem to be doing switcheroos with more mundane less divine forms of life.
2.) Let's say a god could. Maybe a Nightwalker negative image is spawned. I'd worry more though about the god having abanondoned its divine portfolio domain and the consequences of that. If a god of life or light crosses into the Negative Plane and is trapped there, and its the only life and light domain entity with divinity over a particular material plane world, I'd worry about those consequence more than the Nightwalker that might emerge. Maybe the domain follows the god into the negative plane as well and the material plane world basically becomes some sort of touchstone itself to the Negative Plane with some grave, so to speak, cosmic consequences. Orcus, Myrkyll, et al, will be showing up to watch, Vecna working the popcorn machine. If the world isn't irredeemably "negged" perhaps a new god of the abandoned domains can pick up the mantle with the help of some adventurers....
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.