Purgatory?

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Is there a purgatory in the D&D cosmos?

 

[Alzrius]

Depends on which cosmos, really.

The Fugue Plane in the Forgotten Realms cosmology is certainly very much like Purgatory.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

I think the D&D cosmos (Greyhawk?) is the one in the Manual of the Planes.

 

[Sejs]

Then no, there isn't.

 

[ph34r]

Wait, I thought Greyhawk WAS purgatory...

j/k

 

[shilsen]

But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.

In short, no

 

[Nightfall]

No. Core D&D cosmology doesn't have a place where a soul can "ascend" into a celestial plane or "descend" into a "hellish" one.

 

[fusangite]

Depends on how you think about purgatory. The planes in D&D have no morality -- so the idea of hell or purgatory punishing people who live wrongly is not there. But if you think of D&D as having purgatory in the way that it has hell, the yes, there is a purgatory. In this scheme, heaven = Lawful Good = Celestia; hell = Lawful Evil = Hell; therefore, purgatory = either (a) Lawful Neutral/Mechanus or (b) purgatory = Neutral/Outlands.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

I'm thinking more along the lines of a neutral ground in the cosmos where souls go before moving on to the planes of their gods.

 

[Crothian]

I'm thinking more along the lines of a neutral ground in the cosmos where souls go before moving on to the planes of their gods.

Not officially, but one could easily put one in. I did tis when I got the PDF Purgatory its by Mongooose and I found it fits rather well.