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<blockquote data-quote="Iron Sheep" data-source="post: 1385850" data-attributes="member: 4965"><p>This is really your call, and depends on your cosmology. Any answer is reasonable. Personally, I would say that the answer should depend on when, where and how someone gets their soul (or equivalent).</p><p></p><p>I would say that if someone gets their soul at birth, then it's the place of birth which matters. If someone gets their soul at conception, then it's the place of conception which matters. If it's at some other point, then it's that point which matters. Without getting into real-world religion, any possibility could be made to work in-game.</p><p></p><p>Of course, another possibility would be that a child's soul is a mixture of its parent's souls, and inherits their home plane as its home plane. But then you need to decide what happens with children of couples from different planes.</p><p></p><p>A final possibility is that maybe you can change your home plane based on your actions or desires: wherever your heart and soul truly considers home is your home plane. Maybe you can perform a ritual to make a particular plane your home. Presumably fallen celestials and risen fiends can change their home planes somehow?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Probably not. But if you want your universe to work this way, it wouldn't be unreasonable. Maybe growing up in an intrinsically fire-based environment confers this magically?</p><p></p><p>Regards,</p><p>Corran</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Iron Sheep, post: 1385850, member: 4965"] This is really your call, and depends on your cosmology. Any answer is reasonable. Personally, I would say that the answer should depend on when, where and how someone gets their soul (or equivalent). I would say that if someone gets their soul at birth, then it's the place of birth which matters. If someone gets their soul at conception, then it's the place of conception which matters. If it's at some other point, then it's that point which matters. Without getting into real-world religion, any possibility could be made to work in-game. Of course, another possibility would be that a child's soul is a mixture of its parent's souls, and inherits their home plane as its home plane. But then you need to decide what happens with children of couples from different planes. A final possibility is that maybe you can change your home plane based on your actions or desires: wherever your heart and soul truly considers home is your home plane. Maybe you can perform a ritual to make a particular plane your home. Presumably fallen celestials and risen fiends can change their home planes somehow? Probably not. But if you want your universe to work this way, it wouldn't be unreasonable. Maybe growing up in an intrinsically fire-based environment confers this magically? Regards, Corran [/QUOTE]
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