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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masque" data-source="post: 1392381" data-attributes="member: 9792">In my homebrew, there are two destinations for souls, the Underworld, and being absorbed into the main deity of evil.The Underworld is very Greek flavored, but is mostly like a town or city where best friends always live next to each other, and whoever you want to talk to is right around the corner.  Essentially, the place is enchanted so that whoever you want to talk to is right there, and whereever you'd want to go is within five minute's walk.  The place is ministered by the dwarves, who learn from the wise souls, and catalogue all the knowledge of the dead into enormous, endless books.The only fixed location is the Throne of the Broken Sword, where the goddess of the dead sits to sleep/think/create/ponder how she's going to get her physical form back.  The place is pretty idyllic, and they feel no pain even if someone were to decide to try and kill the souls of the dead.  Souls of unborn children sometimes get formed into dwarves, and other times are cared for by the dead who like taking care of children (gives professional mothers something to do).  I wanted to add in the Styx somehow, but I realized that the goddess in charge doesn't want souls to forget, she wants them to commit their memories to paper so that others don't repeat their mistakes.Since the world is new, the evil deity takes a very hands-on approach to the whole deal.  When someone is being extremely evil, or would be open to turning to evil, he's there with an offer of power and what they have to do to get what they want.  For example, one barren woman was told that to have children, she would have to kill a child, and that soul would become her child; to this end she was given powers of poison and disease.  Once they have pledged their souls to him, he gives them free reign.When such people die, he has three options: immediately forge their souls into monsters, absorb them for power and keep them, or absorb them for later reforging.  If he chooses the last, he doesn't choose exactly which soul is forged, only which would be most suited to his purpose.  The deity's power is directly related to how many souls he has absorbed, so he doesn't often make monsters.  As he sometimes ends up with good souls (through parents promising the souls of their children, or kings their subjects), the last option (delayed forging) sometimes comes with interesting results.The last "botch" was when the deity wanted a creature that would destroy men with beauty, he got the (neutral good) nymph, who can both blind and kill men with beauty, or turn them (unintentionally) to evil through their drive to possess this most beautiful of beings.  All such creatures are unique, and are, at their core, book monsters with a couple extra powers and a backstory.</blockquote>

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