Alignment - Nekron, the Unliving One

[thachaotix]

Nekron (Ruinous Powers)

Nekron, Lord of the Unliving, bringer of the Blackest Night. In the beginning, there was only death, then life upset the balance. It spread across the multiverse like a plague, and death has had enough. It wants this interloper to dissapear. As such, it's commandments are simple. Slay all the living, and let the dead roam free once more.
One of the things Nekron gets along with best is Dithmenos. For it is life that brought light and in darkness no life can be sustained. As life and light follow eachother, so do death and darkness.

General Tenets:
- Create and help undead
- Slay the living
- Be patient, the right time will come

Alignment Scale:
10: Destroying any undead for any reason
9: Not killing a sentient creature each day
8: Acting on impulse when patience would serve you better
7: Not bringing a slain sentient creature back as an undead
6: Preventing an undead from being created
5: Showing mercy in any form, except to undead
4: Destroying a corpse for any reason other than sustenance
3: Passing up the chance to create an undead when there is no danger
2: Not killing a foe, that is not undead
1: Healing the living or bringing someone back to life.

Mark of Nekron
The Chosen of Nekron have no collective name. And few who see their work live to tell the tale.
You gain the Undead and Dark Vision traits.

Organisations:
The Black Rose
This group of necromancers seek nothing more than to create Nekron's ultimate domain. A world of death where the unliving rule and thrive. Though any may join their ranks, only those capable of raising undead will ever achieve a high rank. Any living that join do so with the understanding they will be turned at the earliest opportunity, wheter they want to or not.

The Night Guard
The night guard are mage-knights that patrol during the dead of night. Due to their vigilance many think of them as guardians that protect the roads and towns in the darkest hours. What they actually do however is a bit more grim. They go around collecting corpses to bury them as part of a ritual so they may never be brought back to life. They do not prevent the raising of undead, but do not actively do so themselves either.

[Traskus]

You do not need to eat, drink, breathe or sleep.

The undead trait makes this redundant.

[DatsVatSheSaid]

Welp, there goes my effort to making Nagash as an Alignment.

[A nony mouse]

Would certainly be helped by a Nagash reference, though. Possibly throw in a tie-in to the C'Tan, and perhaps some Blood of Vol?

It would also benefit from being not quite so relentlessly evil. Adjust things so that he's obviously pro-undead, but not necessarily so anti-living, and perhaps lean into the "patience" thing a bit more. Let him have a subcult who reveres the undead (for whatever reason), and tries to pool resources to let its members get the really *good* undead transformations, and possibly lets people do the "you get money now, and you sign paperwork that lets us raise you as grunt labor once you die". Have some quiet support among the vampires. (If you dialed the response-to-living down from "kill them all" to "lesser being", then vampire groupies are suddenly a totally plausible kind of Nekron cult)

Of course, you could totally have Nekron followers that run around in the dark of night performing ritual murders to power necromancy to raise the murdered people as zombies, and things like that, but the more mainstream cults would of course deplore such actions. Having "Not killing a sentient creature each day" show up on the actual Alignment Scale is a lot harder to talk your way around.

[DatsVatSheSaid]

You could have them see undeath as defiance against death. Truly being master of your own fate, liberating yourself of the natural cycle. Stuff like that.

[A nony mouse]

Heck, you could even bring in the Undying Court (also from Eberron). You could bring in both Blood of Vol *and* the Undying Court and have them completely be at each other's throats as a result of a really ugly schism in the church over some weird little point of theology like which version of the "become an undead" ritual is morally superior. Blood of Vol thinks that vampires are best, because (reasons) and the Undying Court thinks their version is best (perhaps it consistently turns people into Marrow? ), because (other reasons).