Sorrow

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A Sorrow is the restless spirit of a person who died while performing a task that was personally morally important. Sorrows may appear as individuals or in groups of varying size.
Sorrows appear only on the anniversary of the tragic event. Like a haunt, they desire the fulfillment of some task. Sorrows generally assume a slightly glowing, translucent form of their former self(s). In this state they tend to resemble groaning spirits, specters, or ghosts.
Sorrows may also appear as luminescent balls of light (identical in appearance to a will-o-the-wisp). In either form, sorrows are insubstantial and cannot affect or be affected by beings/ things of the prime material plane. Sorrows do not have the haunt-like ability to take over a living body in order to finish an appointed task. They rely on living beings to understand their plight and allow the Sorrows to accompany the individual or group in hopes some deed done by those living will free the Sorrows from their haunting obligation. Sorrows have a 10% chance of being able to communicate verbally with living beings.
If the majority of an approaching party or if an individual has an alignment opposite to that of a Sorrow (good vs. evil), the Sorrow will groan in an attempt to cause the group/person to flee in fear (save vs. wand).
Sorrows have no memory of the time that passes between their time on the prime material plane and whatever
plane their souls went to following death. Part of their essence has been forced to the Ethereal plane during the anniversary of their death; for this reason Sorrows cannot be turned.
==Habitat/Society==
What a sorrow was doing at the time of demise varies. Often a sorrow may be seen as a phantom guard of a keep or any other job that would be considered routine. Unlike a haunt, the sorrow does not have a burning need for revenge. Rather the sorrow wants to continue whatever duty it was performing when it was alive. Often it does not even know that it is dead.
==Ecology==
Why sorrows return is a mystery. They seem to possess an overly strong work ethic that follows them to the grave and beyond.
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