Get Ready for Black Market Guide to Immortality: A 5e/PF2e Sourcebook
by Nine Heavens Press
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From the makers of Undying Corruption, a new 5e/PF2e sourcebook:
Whether it's by gorging on mercury or shoving one's soul into a cramped box, cultivators have been willing to destroy their bodies in pursuit of eternal life. The Black Market Guide to Immortality offers all ambitious seekers of imperishability practical, surefire solutions to avoid such ironic ends.
This 200+ page 5e/Pathfinder 2e sourcebook expands on the worldbuilding established in Undying Corruption, our Korean mythology-inspired campaign book, into the far East Asian region. Inspired by China, Japan, and Korea and their rich histories, mythologies, and religions revolving around the obsession for immortality, it lays out the most mystical secrets of the Undying Corruption setting's divine world.
In this book, you'll find:
5 new species/ancestries based on mythologies and folktales from China, Japan, and Korea
13 new subclasses for each existing class plus our homebrew Tactician class, with Pathfinder 2e conversions
A bestiary of 50+ new monsters from across East Asia
20+ new legendary items and artifacts from East Asian mythologies
Secrets of everlasting life and the many (and very illegal!!) methods of achieving them, documented!
"Shin Seul-ki here, ice sorceress extraordinaire! Making my big, authorial debut in the criminal underworld, I'm making a clean break from my dearly departed mom's old cult. It's a fire sale on all their nastiest, most forbidden secrets!"
Among the 13 new subclasses we offer, the Druidic Circle of Entropy exists to uphold the natural law that all existence must end. The Circle of Entropy harnesses the power of inevitability to manipulate the flow of energy to even time. Of course, if a Druid of this circle was to go rogue, they could ostensibly be best positioned to evade the laws they're tasked to enforce...
The nomadic huodou travel the burning, mirage-riddled deserts of Long Xin in packs and caravan villages. Uniquely resistant to its punishing heat, they revere elemental fire as their protectors, demonstrating their devotion by consuming hot coal before battle. It's said that their early ancestors developed this trait by lapping at a droplet from the nectars of eternal life... The remnants of which it is rumored that they protect.
Faith can shape a god from its behavior down to the form it can physically take. When a god no longer receives faith from its former believers, it can nurse a grudge that corrupts its essence. The Gyuki, a yokai from Japan, is a mountain god that degraded into a fiendish parody of its former self. Consumed by anger, it lashes back out at those who abandoned it, destroying the blessings it first gave out. Even when slain, its vendetta persists, reincarnating it as a tiefling that inherits its rage.
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