Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Many awakened undead cling to the alignment they held in life. For others, death changes them significantly, and they adopt a new worldview in light of what their death has taught them.

You do not age. Given time, the necromantic energies that sustain you will heal most wounds you take at approximately the same rate as a mortal, and your hit dice function as normal.

Choose another race besides this one, which must be humanoid and lack the living construct trait (or similar). Before your death, you were a member of this race and appear as an undead version of it. Your size, height, and movement speed are the same as the typical member of this race. You do not retain special movement speeds from this race (such as swimming or flying). If your Past Life race has subraces, you can select one, but it confers no benefits.

You have been raised from death, but regaining your autonomy has returned to you some of the spark of life. You are immune to disease. You do not need to eat or breathe, but you can ingest food and drink if you wish. Additionally, you have two creature types: humanoid and undead. You can be affected by a spell or ability if it works on either of your creature types.

As an undead, you very rarely tire. You treat exhaustion as if it was one level less. In addition, instead of sleeping, you enter an inactive state for 4 hours each day. You do not dream in this state; you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and other events as normal. 

Unlike other undead, you can be restored through healing magic, but it has a significantly dampened effect on you. When you regain hit points from a source that specifies it does not function on undead, you only receive half as many hit points as the source would normally provide, rounded down. 

Through the necromantic energy animating you, you are able to perceive with greater clarity that which lurks in the darkness. You can see in dim light within 60ft of you as if it were bright light, and in the darkness as if were dim light. You can't decern color in darkness, only shades of grey. 

You are immune to poison damage and the poison condition.

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language, typically one available to the race you chose for your Past Life. If your past life race has a trait that precludes speech (such as a Kenku's Mimicry), you are still not able to speak and instead gain access to the relevant trait of your Past Life race that substitutes speech. 

Five types of awakened undead are available to you. Choose Skeleton, Revenant, Ghost, Ghoul, or Mummy, listed in the following section.