According to the Pact Primeval, all souls go to the same place at first, the Fugue Plane. Some however get lost on the way and become various forms of spirits. From there, the officials of their final plane come and collect them. Some planes come so seldom that souls can fade away before the rep shows up. But devils are always trying to get souls to sign pacts that divert them to Baator, and demons stage raids to steal souls for the Abyss.
According to the Pact Primeval, all souls go to the same place at first, the Fugue Plane. Some however get lost on the way and become various forms of spirits.
That's how it is for the souls of the planet Toril, and probably of Realmspace as a whole, but not all worlds are so unlucky.
From there, the officials of their final plane come and collect them. Some planes come so seldom that souls can fade away before the rep shows up.
Officials specifically of the regions of the Outer Planes that are ruled by the gods of the Realms. And they collect souls not based on alignment but on whether these souls were true in faith and deeds to one god or another. That includes evil gods, though the whole concept ends up painting even the good gods in an unpleasant light.
But devils are always trying to get souls to sign pacts that divert them to Baator, and demons stage raids to steal souls for the Abyss.
The final shame is that such god-unaffiliated fiends get to do this but there is no word of independent celestials doing the same.
The Fugue Plane doesn't appear on standard maps of the D&D cosmology. Previous editions have placed it as a region of Hades (the neutral evil outer plane, which added another note of despair) or as an astral dominion (probably floating somewhere near Realmspace to intercept souls is my guess). The Shadowfell would make another apt location IMO. At least this way it could all be blamed on Shar's influence or the like.
You become a sentient cog in Mechanus. If you're really, truly neutral, you will forever reap the join of being part of something greater, the ever grinding wheels of the universe.
If not, you are truly and utterly ... out of luck.
As an aside, it's propably more canon, and more true, that you become something nice and furry (optional) in the Outlands. But mine is funnier =)
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You go to a quiet small town diner to eat pancakes and hash browns and blueberry muffin and chit chat with the other patrons, for all time. You never get full, you never have to go to the bathroom, you never have to pay the bill, and the coffee is the best coffee you've ever had.
If you have any other alignment you go to a plane asosiated with that alignment but there are no neutral planes.
"There are few problems that cannot be solved through the application of overwhelming arcane firepower" Mephistopheles
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The Outlands, also called the Concordant Opposition.
The plane was described page 302 of the 2014 Player's Handbook but they did not find place for it on the map page 303.
The new 2024 map of the planes is better in that regard.
Expanded 5e Spelljammer Cosmology
oh okay
"There are few problems that cannot be solved through the application of overwhelming arcane firepower" Mephistopheles
Titles Bestowed Upon Me
Baazle: Third Initiate of the Cult of The Fox | Golden The Burning Questioner
Alt Account of Good_Drow(aka I forgot the password)
PM me the word avocado
According to the Pact Primeval, all souls go to the same place at first, the Fugue Plane. Some however get lost on the way and become various forms of spirits. From there, the officials of their final plane come and collect them. Some planes come so seldom that souls can fade away before the rep shows up. But devils are always trying to get souls to sign pacts that divert them to Baator, and demons stage raids to steal souls for the Abyss.
That's how it is for the souls of the planet Toril, and probably of Realmspace as a whole, but not all worlds are so unlucky.
Officials specifically of the regions of the Outer Planes that are ruled by the gods of the Realms. And they collect souls not based on alignment but on whether these souls were true in faith and deeds to one god or another. That includes evil gods, though the whole concept ends up painting even the good gods in an unpleasant light.
The final shame is that such god-unaffiliated fiends get to do this but there is no word of independent celestials doing the same.
The Fugue Plane doesn't appear on standard maps of the D&D cosmology. Previous editions have placed it as a region of Hades (the neutral evil outer plane, which added another note of despair) or as an astral dominion (probably floating somewhere near Realmspace to intercept souls is my guess). The Shadowfell would make another apt location IMO. At least this way it could all be blamed on Shar's influence or the like.
Expanded 5e Spelljammer Cosmology
You become a sentient cog in Mechanus. If you're really, truly neutral, you will forever reap the join of being part of something greater, the ever grinding wheels of the universe.
If not, you are truly and utterly ... out of luck.
As an aside, it's propably more canon, and more true, that you become something nice and furry (optional) in the Outlands. But mine is funnier =)
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
If you're true neutral, maybe you go to a beige waiting room for the afterlife with a long line XD
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You go to a quiet small town diner to eat pancakes and hash browns and blueberry muffin and chit chat with the other patrons, for all time. You never get full, you never have to go to the bathroom, you never have to pay the bill, and the coffee is the best coffee you've ever had.
Anzio Faro. Protector Aasimar light cleric. Lvl 18.
Viktor Gavriil. White dragonborn grave cleric. Lvl 20.
Ikram Sahir ibn-Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad. Brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer Lvl 9. Fire elemental devil.
Wrangler of cats.
Could you say it’s… Good coffee? Hmm, doesn’t seem neutral :^)
Unless you like crappy coffee. I like Dunkin, large iced extra extra. Is it "good" coffee? No, not really. But I like it.
Anzio Faro. Protector Aasimar light cleric. Lvl 18.
Viktor Gavriil. White dragonborn grave cleric. Lvl 20.
Ikram Sahir ibn-Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad. Brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer Lvl 9. Fire elemental devil.
Wrangler of cats.