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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 5101954" data-attributes="member: 40413">Certainly!  If there is a war and someone is destined to die, they will die.  If they are destined to live, they will survive it.  It's that simple to Ubariya.  Frequency of war is really not her business.  Now if Torath starts killing mortals during war that are not destined to die yet she's gonna get irate.  But presumably the only mortals Torath is going to be able to kill in battle are ones that are destined to be killed by him.  I have to look at it in that fashion because it is impossible to play any other way, even after she get the Know Death SDA (unless the DM tells me that a mortal dies before their time; I know, I know, it's a staple in fiction...).In fact, Ubariya may consider (but never say to him, of course) that she considers Torath her tool.  Lot's of people die in war-time which wouldn't happen without her say-so.  Ergo, Torath's wars only happen when she says lots of people are gonna die in war.  Circular logic?  Yep, but a lawful girl's gotta stay sane somehow or she might as well move in with Duretep now.Now since Ubariya is concerned with the journey of the soul (regardless of who claims it, but she doesn't say that either) I also have to assume that a mortal dies when the soul is ready for the next step of its journey.  Toss in her (eventual) Know Death SDA and you add an odd predestination element to the mix (she knows when a soul is ready to 'advance' because it wouldn't shuck off the body yet if it weren't.  That isn't entirely inappropriate thinking for a lawful deity).Anyway, that's my rambling way of saying 'I agree!' <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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