Re: Resurrection/raise dead/souls in SJ

Just thinking out loud :)

Lets say people die in sphere w/out patron deity,
their soul becomes trapped.  The soul wanders the
sphere's ethereal/astral/something else for a time
(1d10 days) until its picked up by a Soul Collector. 
A Soul Collector is more a generic term; it could be
say PotC Davy Jones, or a fiend captaining a ship of
soul-slaves to drag back to the pits of hell, or some
monster that devours souls, or even a divine agent who
leads said souls to the proper plane.

Now lets say divine agents should only appear if a
deity is established, but not strongly, in a sphere
(such as a group of Zeus/Olympian clerics have set up
a single temple on an asteroid city).  

If your deity (or a deity who is strongly allied with
your deity) isn't present in a sphere, the fate of
your soul comes into question...do you get lucky and
get saved, or will your immortal soul be enslaved or
devoured?

I could definately see RP potential here.  It almost
becomes imperiative for PCs, ALL PCs (not just
clerics), to have an interest in spreading their
patron god(s) churches as far as possible.  Afterall,
Fighter Joe might not care who the cleric prays to, he
would care if he can be raised from the dead or not!
:)

--- Steven <steven.james.1@??????????.??.uk> wrote:

> Lol good point ;)
> Especially in the Phlogiston where the Planar
> contacts get screwy, eh?
> I think that the Astral Plane reaches all D&D worlds
> (usually anyway) and
> thus contact cnabe established, BUT...
> 
> Some places are...screwy..at the DMs option,
> Ravenloft-like, or magic is
> weak, planar connectiona weak, chance of a failure
> etc.




 
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