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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irennan" data-source="post: 6762590" data-attributes="member: 6778119">Sounds like I failed to explain myself. In my posts, I didn't imply that Planescape lore has precedence over FR specific lore, at all. I know that the afterlife in the Realms works in a different way, because there is canonical information that explicitly states that. The goal of my post wasn't to say that, in absence of specific information, or information that contradicts Plaescape lore, that can be applied, because Toril *is* part of the ''Multiverse'' and of a Planescape-like cosmology. I'm not making this up, it's in the books, even 5e ones.Considered this, I made those posts to comment on the idea (tossed in the thread before) that there can't be a space where the souls who don't go to the divine realms can fit. The FR still has a Great-Wheel like cosmology, and, in a hypothetical situation where we removed the Wall, people's souls *could* still go to the part of the aligned planes that aren't occupied by a divine realm.As a larger point, regarding the discussion about whether or not the Wall is needed, from an in-setting PoV (due to reasons like "if you get rid of the Wall, the souls of the faithless have no place to go"): it's not that without the Wall the logic of the FR afterlife would collapse, or that the Wall is needed for the internal coherence of the setting. The Wall simply exists because its creators thought of it as a valid element to add, that's it.I can appreciate the intent, but its execution was really poor. The FR has been used as the kitchen sink anyway...</blockquote>

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