Homebrew Evermore Species Details

An undead soldier, incredibly difficult to re-kill. Existence is torture for these beings and the often wish they were not still amongst the living. They only have vague memories of their mortal life. In the unlikely event that an Evermore remembers enough about their life to want to restore their memories, these memories cannot be restored by any spell and instead can only be brought back by revisiting people or places that were important to them in life.

Evermore have a chance to be created in one of two ways:

Traumatised Hero - 

Noble heroes in life, buried in their armour as a sign of respect, but the untold traumas of their life won't let them sleep. Fuelled by their torturous life experiences, these soldiers wake up in search of peace but their existence is nothing but more pain.

Monstrous Creation - 

Stolen corpses can be bound to living armour by malicious magic users, as a more consistent way to bring about Evermore into being. This rarely goes well for the magic user however, as the torment of being ripped from the afterlife and forced into servitude is usually enough to prompt the Evermore to kill its creator.

Evermore Traits

Evermore have a variety of abilities.

Ability score increase

Your Strength score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Buried in Armour

To become an Evermore, a soldier must be buried in their armour. When they rise again this armour now acts as their body, granting them a bonus 2 to AC. They also classify as being unarmoured but cannot equip additional armour.

Involuntary Immortality

Despite your best efforts, dying a second time is hard. Any successful death saving throws will restore you to 1 hp.  Crits restore half of max hp.

Sleep when you're dead

You do not need to sleep, eat, drink or breath, but you are still able to. An 8 hour rest is still required to feel the benefits of a long rest.

Undead Aversions

our unholy and undead nature inflicts a vulnerability to Radiant damage 

Languages

Evermore can speak Common and the language of their creator