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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5241941" data-attributes="member: 22779">But, absolute factual form is an impossible standard even in our world.  Trying to claim that as a standard is a false premise.Why?  It's only a superstition if it's not repeatable.  The in-world truth is, if you say a demon lords name enough times, he's going to come and visit you.  This isn't a belief, it's a demonstrable fact.  I doubt most people would need a demonstration after the first city or perhaps the second one, burned to the ground.Why wouldn't they?  Undead are hardly that rare in most D&D settings.  It's not terribly difficult to create one.  Greyhawk has undead ARMIES.  Krynn had an undead castle owned by a death knight in the middle of a city.  Middle Earth had barrow wights.  Why wouldn't undead be just as real to the common person as elves?He'd probably be insane.  Most D&D settings have undead all over the place.  Whether it's undead armies, undead kingdoms or just undead wandering the countryside.  Why would he deny something that is pretty much integral to the setting?Looking farther afield, you get Scarred Lands.  There you have a setting where the gods and the titans walked the lands for thousands of years.  It's only in the last couple of centuries (if that) that you couldn't see a god or a titan on a fairly regular basis.  Denying the existence of gods in that setting would be insane.Forgotten Realms has had direct divine intervention on any number of occasions.  Bhaal fathering multiple progeny.  Time of Troubles.  Mystra and her bunch.  Never mind that you have demons and devils appearing all over pretty much every setting trying to do stuff.Extra planar beings are not all that rare in a D&D setting.  Would it be that out of line for people to have a pretty solid grasp on what happens to you after you die?</blockquote>

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