Fate of the Duegar

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There are "deep gnomes" and "deep halflings" - neither of which are evil. The gnomes "svirfneblin" are grimmer, more distrustful and more morose than regular gnomes though (and, like duergar and drow, are considered more powerful than standard races and thus requiring a Level Adjustment - counting as a higher level character than hit dice alone would indicate.

Some splatbooks have "deep humans" as a variant too - Underdark, Races of Destiny. And Races of Faerun has "orogs" (deep orcs) which are more powerful than regular orcs.

The Giant did mention duergar once in OOTS context:

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...r#post19821213

Okay, I'll take the Giant's comment as confirmation that Duergar do exist in this setting -- and that the smuggler, with the skin tone, is likely one such.

In which case, it seems likely a duergar getting into the afterlife just needs to die in battle. The old-school Vikings weren't nice people. You don't have to be good to die an honorable death in battle. So a good person who died of illness would wind up in Hel's domain while a Xykon who was killed in battle would enter Valhalla.



Respectfully,

Brian P.