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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3148057" data-attributes="member: 11697">The souls of dead mortals either go to the realm of any patron deity they have (or anyone else that applies such as an archfiend if they sold their soul at some point), or their soul goes to the plane that most closely fits their alignment. The souls of dead mortals are then known as 'petitioners'. Petitioners typically are stripped of their memories of mortal life, being only the core personality they had and their alignment in a more pure form. They lack the distractions of mortality and strive to further understand, promote, and eventually become one with the plane/their alignment/any patron deity they have.Some petitioners are incapable of willingly leaving their native plane, and they're generally terrified of the idea. Thing is, if a petitioner is killed off of that plane, they're permenantly destroyed, and have lost their chance of merging with the plane/any patron deity they have. Thus, most petitioners won't be found outside of their native plane. Exceptions to this however exist: Larvae, manes/dretches, lemures, nupperibos, and lantern archons are petitioner types that are capable of leaving their native planes.The 3e Manual of the Planes addresses petitioners, though the most in depth detail on the topic is in the 2e 'On Hallowed Ground' sourcebook.As for dead mortals becoming outsiders... some of the true outsider races arise from mortal souls, either entirely or partially:Archons: the lowest form of archon, the lantern archon, is the default form for petitioners to Mount Celestia. All higher forms of Archon start out as lanterns and are subsequently promoted to higher forms.Baatezu: 99.99999% of all Baatezu start out as either larvae or lemures, both of them being types of petitioners [larvae can be found on the Gray Waste, the Abyss, or Baator; lemures just on Baator].Tanar'ri: Many Tanar'ri start out as larvae or manes/dretches. Many other Tanar'ri are formed direct from the Abyss or born from mating Tanar'ri.Hordelings: Hordelings on the Gray Waste are formed from specific, unique larvae (and Night Hags from advanced Hordelings)[Yugoloths don't form from petitioners at all (they predate mortal life). Obyriths don't form from petitioners either (as they also appear to predate mortal life). Modrons have a static number and form from the raw stuff of mechanus. Slaadi are bizarre. Rilmani... nobody knows. Guardinals and Eladrin don't appear to have links to petitioners.]</blockquote>

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