In some cosmologies, departed souls had to first progress through the Astral Plane. (In such holy myths, the anima could continue to observe the mortal world but could not interact with it in any other way.) In the teachings of some draconic religions of Faerûn, the dragon soul, the anima did not immediately depart for the afterlife instead, it was bound to the corpse of the dragon until the mortal body of that dragon had completely decayed, freeing the anima for its journey. In the land of Zakhara, the departing soul was called a hama and it often took the spectral form of a bird. Some argued that the journey could take as long as three days to even a month of time on the Prime. The journey was not instantaneous, although it would seem that way to the soul itself. They were then pulled to the Fugue Plane. Īs earlier stated, when en-souled mortals on the Prime Material Plane died under normal circumstances, their souls departed their bodies. In Zakhara, a departing soul was often depicted in the form of a bird, called a hama. Undead and constructs did not usually have souls either, though the creatures from which they were constructed might have. Most plants, oozes, and vermin were not sufficiently sentient and thus did not have souls. If the visitor to another plane was killed on that other plane, the silver cord would pull the essence of the creature back, where it would reform into the creature it once was given enough time. Moreover, when such an entity traveled to another plane, it remained anchored to its original plane with a mystical silver cord. Instead, its essence merged with the plane. If an outsider died, no soul left the body. An outsider's soul and body formed a single spiritual existence, tied fundamentally to the essence of its plane. For example, some creatures, usually from other planes of existence and sometimes referred to as outsiders, did not have a dual nature. In contrast, the case was different for some other kinds of creatures that did not have such a dual nature. In the Mulhorandi faith, the ba spirit was said to remain within a mortal's body when they died, while the ka moved on to be judged by Osiris. When a mortal died, its soul and body were separated, and the soul automatically began a journey to the afterlife. And dragons called their lifeforce an anima. The people of Sokkar referred to this lifeforce as ka. In the Mulhorandi faith, this lifeforce was termed two separate spirits, ba and ka. ![]() ![]() In some religions, this lifeforce was variably termed a " spirit", and the two terms were synonymous. If I were running the 5e game I would have the parents believe that they sold their childrens souls and have the devils tempt them into further evil by baiting the temptation with opportunities to regain the souls that they “sold,” while at the same time tempting the children into evil by reminders that they are already damned and no amount of good behavior or repentance will change that regardless of the supposed legality after all devils are deceivers.The soul was the lifeforce of a mortal, the part that gave essence and a separate existence to a creature. ![]() In the 4e Essentials book Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms the Hexblade infernal warlock pact has flavor text that explains that the default infernal pact most devils offer is not power in exchange for the warlocks soul but power that sends the souls of whomever the warlock slays directly to hell. If I remember correctly in 4th edition it was mentioned in either Secrets of the Astral Sea or the Manual of the Planes that selling one’s soul did not automatically damn the seller to Hell, but those that believe that they are damned have tend to engage in more sinful behavior that inevitably damn them anyway. It is possible at least according to the Tyrants of the Nine Hells book for those who sold their souls to challenge the devil that took possession of the soul in combat, it is also possible to sue them in infernal court as judged by a Pit Fiend if the devil did not grant the powers and rewards it promised, and it is also possible to sell one’s soul and repent and escape your fate only to reincarnate as Hellbred, a new race published in that book. ![]() There used to be quite explicit rules for the Soul Trade in the 3.5e book Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells, and according to that lore the legality of selling your character’s soul was established by Asmodeus in a legal text that he got the gods to sign called the Pact Primeval.
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