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 Post subject: Re: Dwarven soul source
PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:05 pm 

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The alternative is that everyone goes to the same place, and the 'owner' of that place is whichever God is currently in power. This would mean that all the (non-Varn worshiping) ssethrics and any Elorii not tied to a particular Orumar would go to the Cauldron while on Arcanis because Beltine (and Illiir) are the current "big dogs" of the afterlife.

Wouldn't that just make all those other races feel so dirty ;)


I think it is possible that most souls go to the same place, just known by different names, but if that were the case then there could be humans born with a patchwork soul of a ssressen, etc. We don't see that (that we know of) so mechanically that seems unlikely. But that is a mechanical explanation, not a plot, so it could be very wrong.

Additionally, is seems likely based on written material that souls go where they chose to go (assume no magical intervention or soul consumption occurs). This is supported by the Varn getting the souls of their worshipers, despite them being creations of Kassegore. All the mortal had to do was chose to change their worship and their souls went to a different place after death. This is also supported by the effects of the Myrantian demoness that could seduce someone with so much pleasure as it killed them that it would take their soul (I'm assuming because they would choose to stay with her because of the pleasure); even preventing Elorii it killed from going to their Orumar. It is unclear if Elorii and the Orumar is just a matter of choice of which Orumar to go to, or if there is an "attuning" that needs to be done to go to one.

If this is true, than it seems likely that most non-celestial giant souls go to the Cauldron, since they often worship the PoM. It raises the question of who the celestial giant worshiped before they became servitors of the PoM, since that might indicate how their soul "reserve" works. IT seems interesting that belief dictates where your soul may go upon your death, but it does not control where your soul comes from. IT would appear that the Ssethric souls should still be coming from Kassegore, but many are going out to the Varn, a similar loss of returning souls to the dwarven problem, and going on for an even longer time. (though maybe not as 100% complete on this plane as the dwarven blockage is, since many Ssethrics still secretly worship Kassegore and Yig) Has there been a decline in their birth rate due to fewer souls as well? Maybe that will be answered in the up and coming book!

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 Post subject: Re: Dwarven soul source
PostPosted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:47 pm 
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Would give a new meaning to 'ethnic cleansing' if by wiping other races out, your own gods get to keep the souls and expand.

This may feed into the Elorii guilt, as they have a fixed number of souls due to their creation, so all the souls freed up by their genocide went to Kassegore and Yig at the time.

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