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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8260257" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>Birth, life, death, afterlife, resurrection, reincarnation - the D&D representations of these things are (generally) not intended to reflect the real world. They are part of the journey of a soul, and that journey is part of a fictional story. In many games, these things are ambiguous (either for story purposes or for lack of a need of specifying how they work - or to avoid offense to the religions of players). </p><p></p><p>In my primary homebrew setting, I took a practical, but problematic, approach. The Heavens are a series of 9 finite Realms. Each is controlled by a Greater God. The Hells consist of countless realms, with the 9 Realms of Asmodeus at the center, and a countless number of Abyssal Realms surrounding the 9 Hells (and waging the Blood War upon the 9 Hells to get to the center of the Hells where Asmodeus rules).</p><p></p><p>When a creature with a soul dies, their soul is taken by the Raven Queen and offered to the Gods of the Heavens. The Gods in the Heavens, which are not all goodly beings (There are 9 Realms, and my equivalents of Gruumsh and Bane control one realm each), have to contend with a finite Heavenly realm with space for only so many souls. Some of those Gods strive to cram as many souls in as possible to keep them from the hells, while others provide space to only a select few souls.</p><p></p><p>The Gods can either 1.) accept the soul into the Heavens, 2.) claim it and then immediately send it for reincarnation, or 3.) (if all reject it) send it to the Hells where most will either become a Lemure, or a Manes (Demon Lords or Archfiends may intervene). When a Lemure is killed in the Hells, it rises as a Manes in the Abyssal portion of my Hells. When a Manes is killed in the Hells, the soul essence is returned to the Negative Energy Plane (and nobody but the Raven Queen knows what happens there).</p><p></p><p>The Gods can also elect to send a soul that has been in the Heavens (potentially for a long time) back to the mortal world via reincarnation, sometimes at the request of the soul, other times at the whim of the God. </p><p></p><p><em>It is almost entirely an unfair system</em>, but it is useful in storytelling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 8260257, member: 2629"] Birth, life, death, afterlife, resurrection, reincarnation - the D&D representations of these things are (generally) not intended to reflect the real world. They are part of the journey of a soul, and that journey is part of a fictional story. In many games, these things are ambiguous (either for story purposes or for lack of a need of specifying how they work - or to avoid offense to the religions of players). In my primary homebrew setting, I took a practical, but problematic, approach. The Heavens are a series of 9 finite Realms. Each is controlled by a Greater God. The Hells consist of countless realms, with the 9 Realms of Asmodeus at the center, and a countless number of Abyssal Realms surrounding the 9 Hells (and waging the Blood War upon the 9 Hells to get to the center of the Hells where Asmodeus rules). When a creature with a soul dies, their soul is taken by the Raven Queen and offered to the Gods of the Heavens. The Gods in the Heavens, which are not all goodly beings (There are 9 Realms, and my equivalents of Gruumsh and Bane control one realm each), have to contend with a finite Heavenly realm with space for only so many souls. Some of those Gods strive to cram as many souls in as possible to keep them from the hells, while others provide space to only a select few souls. The Gods can either 1.) accept the soul into the Heavens, 2.) claim it and then immediately send it for reincarnation, or 3.) (if all reject it) send it to the Hells where most will either become a Lemure, or a Manes (Demon Lords or Archfiends may intervene). When a Lemure is killed in the Hells, it rises as a Manes in the Abyssal portion of my Hells. When a Manes is killed in the Hells, the soul essence is returned to the Negative Energy Plane (and nobody but the Raven Queen knows what happens there). The Gods can also elect to send a soul that has been in the Heavens (potentially for a long time) back to the mortal world via reincarnation, sometimes at the request of the soul, other times at the whim of the God. [I]It is almost entirely an unfair system[/I], but it is useful in storytelling. [/QUOTE]
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