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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AntiStateQuixote" data-source="post: 4144429" data-attributes="member: 30770">In the default D&D cosmology (4th edition) the World is occupied by mortal beings whose souls travel through the Shadowfell on their way to some final reward after death.  Let's change that.Souls are actually recycled to continue life on the World.  When a mortal being dies its soul travels to the Shadowfell and then on to some (not final) reward in one of the Astral Dominions.  Later, after an appropriate reward period, the deity that rules the Dominion sends the soul back to the World for reincarnation.There is a finite amount of "soulstuff" created when the Gods put life into the World.  During the clash between the Gods and Primordials the Gods lost the ability to create new soulstuff.  Thus recycling of souls is necessary to continue life in the World.Enter the alien race . . . which must feed on soulstuff to continue its existence.  Either their society, technology or lifeforce (pick one or more) depends on the consumption of soulstuff.  Periodically they must replenish their supply of soulstuff.  They do so by instigating major catastrophes in the World and harvesting the soulstuff in the Shadowfell before it can go on to its afterlife reward.</blockquote>