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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 5474739" data-attributes="member: 30022">It's not about atheism or agnosticism. For me, it's how it's portrayed. The CRPG Neverwinter Nights 2, and other Forgotten Realms literature, make it fairly clear that the Wall of Souls is a form of suffering and torment.Certainly, it's impossible (or difficult) to deny the existence of gods in typical D&D campaign settings... but the existence of the Wall in the Realms cosmology means that (in that setting) even the Lawful Good gods are complicit in a scheme by where all sentient beings must choose to serve one of them... or be damned. It's a... hmmm... it's a protection racket?Note that in no way should this conversation touch on real world religion or beliefs. My distaste for the concept of the Wall of Souls in the Forgotten Realms is purely because of the implications it has for the Good deities in that setting. A mechanism of torment and eternal unrest, which forces sentient creatures to pick even a vile deity like Malar over no belief at all, doesn't seem like something that honorable and caring gods like Helm or Mielikki or Sune should be supporting.[...again: this is not about real world beliefs or lack thereof - discussion of such is against EN World policy...]</blockquote>