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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 1974166" data-attributes="member: 15800">True, certainly, but who's asking? The top heirophant says something along the lines of "The soul of the host will merge with that of the hero, finding rest within his noble spirit." Taerans are specifically defined as being a very authority-driven society who see things in black-and-white terms, and clearly this is an explaination they'd want to believe. So if a priest has been told that this is the will of the Arbiter - and it must be, because it's preserving our greatest priests - why would I use commune to see if he was lying? There's also the key point here that we don't know what happens to the souls. Once the orb has taken over, the soul cannot be recovered. But it may still exist in some form, in the orb or out of if. So commune - which is limited to five words - may present something cryptic and unclear: "His spirit rests eternally" or "He has passed beyond understanding."Alternately, commune could provide a very clear answer - "The soul is destroyed" - but no Taeran ever asked. However, the Ixians - the theocracy that opposed Kel Taera and cursed the orbs - could have discovered this, and this could have been the reason they were so determined to oppose Kel Taera. Nothing in Seven Civilizations says the Ixians were villains; it's possible that they approved of some of Kel Taera's values, but were determined to break the cycle of soul destruction.</blockquote>