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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9276132" data-attributes="member: 7635">I'm going to profess a small amount of ignorance in that it's been a long time since I've read older sources and a lot of info is jumbled in my head. We don't know the extent to which the Dark Powers control life and death. It's been theorized (and it's outright stated in 5e) that souls are trapped in the Mists (thus not even death allows escape from this torment). We also do not know where the souls come from when someone is born in Ravenloft. A soul created and a soul stolen are effectively the same if the soul is stuck after death. And souls need to be stuck or committing sudoku (trigger word bypass) is the best way out of Ravenloft. (It also clearly is insinuated in Tatiana's rebirths, but you can argue that is a special fate for a specific person). But ultimately the argument is kinda moot. You're essentially asking what type of Hell you want, one where the majority of people are "NPC theory" style soulless creatures bound to miserable tedious lives, or one where vibrant souls are snatched from their place in the multiverse and trapped in a nightmare prison where they will never escape and denied their final reward in the afterlife. Both are pretty bleak. Just pick your nihilism I guess.</blockquote>