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<blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 6337001" data-attributes="member: 6686357">In my cosmology, a soul's destined afterlife is not always a simple &quot;soul of X alignment goes to plane of X alignment to be rewarded.&quot; It's influenced by karma (the person's collective actions in life, for good and ill), faith (the religious beliefs of the person, what gods they follow, what afterlife they believe in), regret (do they regret their sins when confronted and genuinely believe they deserve eternal damnation as punishment?), belief (a person who pickets funerals believes they'll go to heaven while a more modest individual is guilt-ridden and believes they'll go to hell for petty and shallow reasons, AKA Discworld reference), the judgments of the judge-gods (Minos, Osiris, etc), and whether the angels/demons presiding are... <a href="http://everything2.com/user/Jet-Poop/writeups/Requiem+Aeternam" target="_blank">just read this</a>. In other words, souls go where the GM wants them to go.Additionally, I've adopted the idea from 4e that evil gods can create angels of their own, who are more loyal than fiends.I could actually use those for the humor value. Wait... the cave of what now? Seriously, I have to write that in as a cave inhabited by small New Zealand birds, with a complementary cave inhabited by strutting roosters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="VelvetViolet, post: 6337001, member: 6686357"] In my cosmology, a soul's destined afterlife is not always a simple "soul of X alignment goes to plane of X alignment to be rewarded." It's influenced by karma (the person's collective actions in life, for good and ill), faith (the religious beliefs of the person, what gods they follow, what afterlife they believe in), regret (do they regret their sins when confronted and genuinely believe they deserve eternal damnation as punishment?), belief (a person who pickets funerals believes they'll go to heaven while a more modest individual is guilt-ridden and believes they'll go to hell for petty and shallow reasons, AKA [I]Discworld[/I] reference), the judgments of the judge-gods (Minos, Osiris, etc), and whether the angels/demons presiding are... [URL="http://everything2.com/user/Jet-Poop/writeups/Requiem+Aeternam"]just read this[/URL]. In other words, souls go where the GM wants them to go. Additionally, I've adopted the idea from 4e that evil gods can create angels of their own, who are more loyal than fiends. I could actually use those for the humor value. Wait... the cave of what now? Seriously, I have to write that in as a cave inhabited by small New Zealand birds, with a complementary cave inhabited by strutting roosters. [/QUOTE]

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