Really, as the title. Given that the Shadow Plane was created by the Negative Energy Plane, why wouldn't the natives be healed by negative and harmed by positive?
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For the same reason shade-loving plants still whither and die in complete darkness, or desert plants still need some water to exist. Positive energy is literally the stuff of life--it's order and movement, while negative energy is chaos and entropy--so if something is alive, it's powered by (and healed by) positive energy. There are a few exceptions (like dhampir), but in general, if you're moving around and filled with negative energy, you're undead.
That is a reasonable assessment, though I still find it odd a plane created by the negative energy plane would have its natives dependent upon its opposite and be harmed by the forces of its creation. I suppose though it is another reason for the sceaduinar to be bitter. Of course, by my rationale, creatures of the shadow plane likely shouldn't be ensouled, at least in the same way as material plane natives.
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It's not really odd at all. Even though the shadow plane is infused with negative energy... the creatures that dwell there are still either alive or undead. It's not WHERE you live that determines if you're healed by negative energy, but whether or not you're alive at all. AKA: If you're undead, you're healed by it wherever you might be, and if you're not, you're not.
There are, of course, some creatures that are alive and who ARE healed by negative energy, most of whom are natives to the Negative Energy Plane... but they're exceptions to the rule.
That is a reasonable assessment, though I still find it odd a plane created by the negative energy plane would have its natives dependent upon its opposite and be harmed by the forces of its creation.
Natives of Pacific Islands can still drown; native Inuit can still freeze to death, native Australians can still die of snake bite, and native Bedouin can still die of heat stroke.
In most of the world, being "native" means that you learn to survive despite the local area doing its best to kill you.
I suppose then my problem is an interpretation of native of being, in some cases at least, of being created of the plane.
But, in any case, thank you. It does make sense given thought.
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My non-canon take on this is that while the Shadow Plane was created by the scaeduinar in an attempt at emulating the grand creation of the Positive Energy Plane (life? souls? the Material plane itself?), either their own nature or -if you believe the raptors of the void- the jyoti's theft of their creative capacity ended up making their attempt at creation nothing more than warped, twisted mockery of the Material Plane, touched by negative energy, but still fashioned from and its natives tethered to positive energy.
Just imagine the sort of apoplectic rage that would instill in the sceaduinar towards everything created by or linked in any capacity to the Positive Energy Plane (including undead).
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