Mysterious ancestry with pale blue flesh and transparent blood like the waters of a trickling brook, samsarans are ancient individuals even in their youth. A samsaran’s life is not a linear progression from birth to death, but rather a circle of birth to death to rebirth. Whenever a samsaran dies, it reincarnates as a young samsaran to live a new life. Their past memories remain vague and indistinct – and each new incarnation is with different ancestral traits and personality as a child is to a parent. Samsarans appear most similar to humans, with dark hair and solid white eyes with no pupils or irises. Skin tones are generally shades of light blue.
Capable of recalling the lessons and failings of their previous incarnations, the samsarans seek to live lives of balance and enlightenment in order to ensure they are reborn upon death to continue their trek through history.
Physical Description: Samsarans appear as humans with pale blue skin, solid white eyes with no pupil or iris, and dark hair. A samsaran’s blood is often crystal clear, like the water of a pure mountain spring.
During the time from birth to death and rebirth, samsarans have a lifespan that mirrors elves. They reach adulthood around 110, with middle age at 175 and old age in their mid-two hundreds. The most venerable of this ancestry live into their mid-three hundreds.
Samsarans are sexual dimorphic, with the average height of males just over six feet and females a couple inches taller. With females often being taller, their body mass is strikingly not similar, with females’ often less making either gender weighing relatively the same.
Society: Samsarans prefer to live simple lives of reflection, scholarship, and worship. They try to live their lives free of the ambitions and greed that mortality often imposes, since they view their lives as only the latest incarnation of many to come. Any accomplishments left undone in this current life can surely be achieved in the next, or the one after that. Samsarans’ memories of their past lives are not complete – they most often feel like half-remembered dreams.
Samsarans can give birth, yet they do not give birth to samsarans –instead, they birth to children of other ancestries, most commonly humans. Typically, samsarans give up their children not long after birth to be raised in other societies, where the children grow and live their lives normally. Upon death, such offspring sometimes reincarnate as samsaran children. It is a common belief this reincarnation of samaran offspring as samaran is more likely if the child has lived their life in keeping with harmony.
While most samsarans who die also reincarnate as samsaran children, this is not always the case. When a samsaran has utterly failed at maintaining harmony in their current life, or when they have succeeded perfectly at it, their soul instead travels to the Great Beyond to receive its final, long-delayed reward or doom.
Relations: Humans and others often misunderstand samsarans’ nature. Many fear or even hate samsarans’ unusual association with death, thinking them to be strangely cursed souls at best or vengeful spirits made flesh at worst.
Alignment and Religion: Most samsarans are follow an integrity alignment – but samsarans of any alignment are possible. Deeply religious, the majority of samsarans take patron deities even if they gain no direct benefits.
Adventurers: Adventuring allows samsarans to see the world’s wonders, deepens their understanding of life, and lets them visit places half remembered from their previous lives.
Names: Agyen, Bakji, Chimi, Dakash, Henar, Mindu, Nalita, Puran, Rema, Sonan, Sonitri, Thukten, Treeni, Yeshing
Samsarans do not keep family names, but often retain the names of their previous one or two incarnations, regardless of gender, as a sort of replacement for a family name to honor their previous lives’ accomplishments or to remind them of their past shames.