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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7118816" data-attributes="member: 40176">I really like that take on it.To take it further, maybe the Rakshasa's new body doesn't re-form in the Nine Hells. Maybe it re-forms on the Prime Material plane - and maybe it's not so much re-form as transform.Imagine: Some devil-cultist who has pledged himself to evil, or some poor schmuck who went and sold his soul in exchange for power, wakes up one day to find that his body has started to transform, growing ever-more monstrous. And as it does so, his mind is twisted to match, growing more fiendish. It's a slow process, taking weeks or months, and it does grant the subject power, so that they often rise to become the leader of a cult or criminal organisation.And then, just as their power reaches its peak, the transformation is complete and their soul is dragged screaming down into the Nine Hells, with the devil rising to fill its place, all set up with a ready-made power base.That could work for both newly-minted Rakshasa and those returning from having been destroyed. The ones who end up having to wait years rather than months are the ones whose potential meatsacks get themselves killed by adventurers (or ambitious subordinates) before they fully mature.</blockquote>