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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2682907" data-attributes="member: 11697">Petitioners in Carceri are CE and they tend to resemble their forms in life oftentimes, with a fraction of them instead becoming larvae. These larvae are likely collected by Tanar'ri to bring back to the Abyss, or if we're talking about the layer of Othrys on Carceri, the plane's contingent of Yugoloths are using them to build the Tower of Incarnate Pain.Petitioners in Pandemonium seem to resemble the form they had in life, and I'm not aware of any larvae in that plane ever being mentioned. Larvae seem tied down to the Abyss, down through the 3 planes of conflict, and back up to Baator. Acheron and Pandemonium are both too lawful and too chaotic, respectively to generate larvae.And now I'm making these numbers up, but they seem reasonable given the source material:CE souls in the Abyss: 90% CE larvae, 10% CE manesNE/CE souls in Carceri: 70% appear as in life, 30% larvaeNE souls in the Waste: NE larvae who either get used in terrible ways by the Yugoloths, sold by Hags to the Tanar'ri and Baatezu, or who transform into Hordelings (and possibly Hags? The link is suggested but not firm). Larvae absorbed by the plane itself will eventually become mulched up and their spiritual essence pooled into the plane itself where it gets recycled into Mezzoloths.</blockquote>