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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sammael" data-source="post: 2932056" data-attributes="member: 4475">1. All souls come to the Prime Material from the Positive Energy Plane, through the Ethereal. Although it happens very rarely, it is possible for a soul to become lost (such as when it is somehow unable to reach the body, e.g. childbirth is taking place in a forbiddance or similar effect). Lost souls sometimes return to the Positive Energy Plane, and sometimes become infused with negative energy or shadowstuff and turn into weak undead beings.2. Souls of mortals born on the Outer Planes are reincarnations of those who died but are not yet ready to become petitioners (for whatever reason). Thus, the source of those souls are the planes themselves, which is why planar mortals are connected to their plane of origin.3. Under normal circumstances, the soul of a mortal who dies passes on to the Outer Planes through the Astral. In FR, all souls first travel to Kelemvor's Crystal Castle to await judgment. Again, if there are some planar anomalies that prevent access to the Astral, souls may become lost on the Prime Material. Because of their previous connections to the Positive Energy Plane, such souls may again enter the Ehtereal and try to return to their source (so to speak). As in (1), some of those souls become incorporeal undead, such as ghosts, wraiths, spectres, and shadows.4. A mortal can sell his soul to a fiend. This results in the soul traveling to an appropriate Lower Plane upon his passing. 5. Mortal souls can be captured using powerful magic and/or creature abiltiies. If released, such souls travel to the Outer Planes as previously described. 6. Evil gods have a claim on the souls of mortals who are ritually sacrificed to them. Their fate is decided on a case-by case basis, depending on individual piety.7. Once a soul is dead and reaches its destination plane, it usually transforms into a petitioner. Some are reincarnated as planar mortals instead. Petitioners are outsiders, so they can only be truly killed on their home plane. Some varieties of evil petitioners, however, aren't bound to a particular plane. Larvae are an example of this. Thus, larvae can be taken to (and destroyed on) any Lower Plane.8. Otherwise, petitioners often lose all memories of mortal lives and begin anew. As Shemmy said, many petitioners strive to become one with their plane and/or deity. This is completely individual and depends on both the petitioner and its deity.</blockquote>

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