D&D 5E Capturing Souls

My wife and I are prepping a new campaign with some pretty heavy fairy tale themes. We also have some plans involving trapping and banishing souls. Before we start creating a bunch of spells and magic items, we were hoping to clarify what is already out there.

Thank you in advance!


Spells:
Magic Jar
Soul Cage
Imprisonment (will fit a lot of the fairy tale things)

Items:
Deck of Many thing (has a couple cards that does things with the soul)
Iron Flask/ Efreet Bottle/ Mirror of Life Trapping (more about capturing an entire entity rather than just their soul, but is usable, or could easily be modified)
 

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jaelis

Oh this is where the title goes?
Devourer in VgtM has a soul-eating ability.

Also hexblade in XgtE gets the accursed specter ability
 
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Ath-kethin

Elder Thing
The spell sequester captures creatures in a gemstone and lasts until dispelled.

Yak folk also have a magic jar type ability. Dunno if you are interested in monsters in addition to spells and items, but there it is.
 






Ath-kethin

Elder Thing
That's not really what sequester does, it puts a (willing) creature in suspended animation and hides it away. AFAIK the gemstone trapping is part of imprisonment in 5e?

Eh, it's nothing a little domination can't handle. Frankly, if you can't force a creature to be "willing" to do stuff by the time you can cast 7th level spells, you aren't much of a wizard.

Point taken that the spell clearly isn't intended as an attack or trap, though.
 

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