toodeep wrote:
...snip...made me wonder about Anshar and Ssethric afterlife. Since Kassegore devours and reprocesses all their souls (very similar to the cauldron) there doesn't seem to be any outsider/extraplanar connection for the Ssethrics, right? That does make is extra interesting that the Ssethric usurper god we learned about in this years BI had outsider servants, doesn't it?
As far as I know, that is correct. We've never seen any mention of "celestials" serving Kasegore and Yig. Never the less there are clearly gigantic holes in our knowledge of Ssethric Lore (even among the Black Talons, Abessians and the Altherians) because this is the first time in the campaign we've even heard about other Ssethric deities besides Kassegore & Yig. I am reluctant to place boundaries on what kinds of creatures do or do not serve Wantir.
toodeep wrote:
And since Anshar is a newer addition to the pantheon, and doesn't have any Valinor of her own, does she now have a paradise? Or do her followers get "reprocessed" like her original followers?
Great Question. Its possible Anshar "chose" very very few to join her in her paradise.
Or she may have her own celestial real estate somewhere and taking in some boarders in the form of her new favorite souls was no big deal. Regardless Yig does not eat and regurgitate souls (to our knowledge) so the human reprocessing center should still be the Cauldron
toodeep wrote:
We know that who you worship controls where your soul goes, right? Or at least it can. That's why losing your chosen to other gods is so bad. When the Varn convinced Ssethrics to start worshipping them, they started getting the souls, rather than them returning to Kassegore.
Its not entirely clear to me. Yes the Varn are poaching souls. How much of that works because of their being worshiped vs. how much of it works because the soul bridge acts like a trap is opaque to me. I think a lot of the Ssethric creatures get caught up that are not particularly devout in any way shape or form. Maybe lip service is enough to keep you in any given "soul" paradigm. But on the other hand I am pretty sure that if you're a human or a kio, and you live in the foreign quarter of Seremas, and you worship Belisarda, you don't go into the Ourumar. Though we know know other people worship Belisarda as part of a triad of goddesses. What happens to their souls is a great mystery. Similiarly, if you are an elorii and you decide you want to follow the Fire Dragon (Kassegore) ...well... it seems like most elorii are ready to recycle your soul
right now based on the understanding that the soul goes back to Ourumar and you get "cleaned up" for your next life.