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<blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 1391099" data-attributes="member: 5328"><p>G'day</p><p></p><p>I have two homebrew fantasy settings.</p><p></p><p>(i) In Gehennum, the afterlife is part of the World of Dreams, which is the programmable part of the Collective Unconscious. Anything that people believe is there, is there. So if some people believe that Captain Hackum is dead and was a villain, and that villains are punished in Hell, there Captain hackum is in Hell, being punished. But if other people think he was a hero, and that heroes get rewarded, there he is in Heaven, being rewarded. This remains perfectly true even if Captain Haqckum is not, in fact, dead.</p><p></p><p>(ii) In my D&D setting, <em>Ashphœnices</em>., the afterlife is (as far as anyone has been able to report) a long queue advancing slowly across an infinte featureless plain. As people die, they appear at the back of the queue. As they are <em>Raised</em>, <em>Resurrected</em>, or <em>Reincarnated</em> they disappear from the queue, allowing the people behind to shuffle forward. Druids teach that his queue is advancing toward a Gate Into Rebirth (and that their <em>Reincarnation</em> spell simply allows people to jump the queue: in my campaign <em>Reincarnation</em> blanks the memory, and reincarnates the subject in a new conceptus.) Some clerics maintain that the queue is advancing as God (or his delegates) judge the people at the front (the queue is as long as it is because the world is wickeder than God intended, so people have (since the collapse of the Elvish Empire) been dying faster than they can be judged). According to this lot, the people who have been judged are not available for resurrection, and that is why even <em>True Resurrection<em> has a time limit. Basically, the queue consists of a 200-year backlog in the processing of Judgement. Other clerics teach that the dead must wait in the queue until Judgemment Day, which is coming at the End of the World (sometime Real Soon Now (TM)).</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>Regards,</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>Agback</em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agback, post: 1391099, member: 5328"] G'day I have two homebrew fantasy settings. (i) In Gehennum, the afterlife is part of the World of Dreams, which is the programmable part of the Collective Unconscious. Anything that people believe is there, is there. So if some people believe that Captain Hackum is dead and was a villain, and that villains are punished in Hell, there Captain hackum is in Hell, being punished. But if other people think he was a hero, and that heroes get rewarded, there he is in Heaven, being rewarded. This remains perfectly true even if Captain Haqckum is not, in fact, dead. (ii) In my D&D setting, [i]Ashphœnices[/i]., the afterlife is (as far as anyone has been able to report) a long queue advancing slowly across an infinte featureless plain. As people die, they appear at the back of the queue. As they are [i]Raised[/i], [i]Resurrected[/i], or [i]Reincarnated[/i] they disappear from the queue, allowing the people behind to shuffle forward. Druids teach that his queue is advancing toward a Gate Into Rebirth (and that their [i]Reincarnation[/i] spell simply allows people to jump the queue: in my campaign [i]Reincarnation[/i] blanks the memory, and reincarnates the subject in a new conceptus.) Some clerics maintain that the queue is advancing as God (or his delegates) judge the people at the front (the queue is as long as it is because the world is wickeder than God intended, so people have (since the collapse of the Elvish Empire) been dying faster than they can be judged). According to this lot, the people who have been judged are not available for resurrection, and that is why even [i]True Resurrection[i] has a time limit. Basically, the queue consists of a 200-year backlog in the processing of Judgement. Other clerics teach that the dead must wait in the queue until Judgemment Day, which is coming at the End of the World (sometime Real Soon Now (TM)). Regards, Agback[/i][/i] [/QUOTE]
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