Judgment & Petitioners
Judgment & Petitioners
Upon dying, a mortal's soul was transported to the Fugue Plane. Once there, these souls counted as petitioners.
Judgement Petitioners received judgement from Kelemvor. The standards according to which judgement was handed were whether, which, and how honestly someone followed a certain deity during its lifetime.
If a petitioner did not have a specific patron deity in life, they were placed for auction to face bids mostly by the deity who was most closely aligned with their moral and ethical outlook. But sometimes also by deities that wished for revenge or to sell them to devils or demons.
If a deity claimed a soul that had not had granted that deity faith in his life it was costly for that deity to do so. The deity had to pay divine essences as collateral for granting the mortal soul an afterlife. While a patron deity did not need to pay for the souls of the devoted.
Those who never paid homage to any deity, or betrayed their god, were deemed Faithless or False. These souls are placed in the wall of the faithless to stop their natural path whatever that would be.
Devil's Bargain However the devils were allowed to talk with the souls in the time between their arrival to the Fugue Plane and being picked up by their deities' servants to their final destination.
The content of these talks was an offer to change the final destination to Baator. Some souls agree to this because they fear the fate their gods would give them, went to Baator, got tortured and wrung out of energy, and started their new life as a lemure.
It was also possible for such souls to work out additional goods for themselves. For example, a-not-so-egoistic deal was to secure that the bereaved family of the soul was provided for by the devil, while a more egoistic deal was to secure early promotion from lemure status or promotion right away into some other devil form.
And what does he want in exchange? Just a little thing—a trifle, really. And it won’t affect you in the slightest. All he wants is your soul.
A soul the gods may have abandoned. A soul left imprisoned for however long it will survive before it is broken down by the wall into just mindless spiritual energy. A soul whose deity is worse when the devils. Can you blame these poor unfortunate souls for choosing to take such a bargain?
This contract is called “The Pact Primeval” it is known to exist but the exact nature of the pact is unknown. But a cornerstone in all known cultures is that Asmodeus tricked the deities into signing a contract that granted him and his people the right to sway all damned souls.
Judgement Petitioners received judgement from Kelemvor. The standards according to which judgement was handed were whether, which, and how honestly someone followed a certain deity during its lifetime.
If a petitioner did not have a specific patron deity in life, they were placed for auction to face bids mostly by the deity who was most closely aligned with their moral and ethical outlook. But sometimes also by deities that wished for revenge or to sell them to devils or demons.
If a deity claimed a soul that had not had granted that deity faith in his life it was costly for that deity to do so. The deity had to pay divine essences as collateral for granting the mortal soul an afterlife. While a patron deity did not need to pay for the souls of the devoted.
Those who never paid homage to any deity, or betrayed their god, were deemed Faithless or False. These souls are placed in the wall of the faithless to stop their natural path whatever that would be.
Devil's Bargain However the devils were allowed to talk with the souls in the time between their arrival to the Fugue Plane and being picked up by their deities' servants to their final destination.
The content of these talks was an offer to change the final destination to Baator. Some souls agree to this because they fear the fate their gods would give them, went to Baator, got tortured and wrung out of energy, and started their new life as a lemure.
It was also possible for such souls to work out additional goods for themselves. For example, a-not-so-egoistic deal was to secure that the bereaved family of the soul was provided for by the devil, while a more egoistic deal was to secure early promotion from lemure status or promotion right away into some other devil form.
And what does he want in exchange? Just a little thing—a trifle, really. And it won’t affect you in the slightest. All he wants is your soul.
A soul the gods may have abandoned. A soul left imprisoned for however long it will survive before it is broken down by the wall into just mindless spiritual energy. A soul whose deity is worse when the devils. Can you blame these poor unfortunate souls for choosing to take such a bargain?
This contract is called “The Pact Primeval” it is known to exist but the exact nature of the pact is unknown. But a cornerstone in all known cultures is that Asmodeus tricked the deities into signing a contract that granted him and his people the right to sway all damned souls.
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