Kandra Lifeless?

[Trusk'our he/him]

So, if you were to awaken a kandra's body, would it still be able to shape shift, or would it be locked into it's current form?

[Quantus he/him]

I strongly suspect you could accomplish the same realmic purpose as the Blessings with a properly conceived Awakening Command, assuming you could directly affect the Mistwraith.  From there, I dont actually see any reason you couldnt take a Dead Mistwraith and make a functional Kandra Lifeless, but I assume it would require a non-standard Lifeless Command, and they might not retain all their shapeshifting skills even if they retain the ability.  

[Circumlocutions]

Do Kandra even leave bodies when they truly die?

 

(I would grab my Shadows of Self and check and see if it said anything but I can't find it.  From memory I would say they don't leave bodies and as such can't be awakened into lifeless)

Edited December 1, 2021 by Brightness Windrunner

[+Harrycrapper]

11 hours ago, Brightness Windrunner said:

Do Kandra even leave bodies when they truly die?

 

(I would grab my Shadows of Self and check and see if it said anything but I can't find it.  From memory I would say they don't leave bodies and as such can't be awakened into lifeless)

They have physical bodies, they definitely leave something behind. Whether or not they remain in the form they were in when they die isn't something I know off the top of my head. And if they do revert to their mistwraith form, I'm not sure how long that would take to decompose or whether there's enough to work with to make a Lifeless. Mistwraiths are techinically humans, so it should technically be possible, but I'm unsure of the logistics on making it happen.

 

Edited December 1, 2021 by Harrycrapper

[+Invocation]

55 minutes ago, Harrycrapper said:

Whether or not they remain in the form they were in when they die isn't something I know off the top of my head.

They do, at least per what happened in Shadows of Self.

[+Harrycrapper]

9 minutes ago, Invocation said:

They do, at least per what happened in Shadows of Self.

Been a bit since I read SoS, but had a feeling that was the case, thank you for confirming.