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What happens to the dead if they die after they die? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So in my campaign a character died in a way where the body is entirely destroyed, but the players wanted to revive them anyway. The only spell that they can possibly access can fix this for them is true resurrection which is way out of range for them. The backup plan was to go find their soul and figure out a new plan from there. I'm fine with that with my understanding of what happens when you die in Forgotten Realms lore (as follows)

Step 1. You die.
Step 2. You go to the fugue plane and get judged by Kelemvor.
Step 3. Your soul is sent to whoever has a claim to it in cases of warlockery, religious beliefs or other deals.
Step 3a. In case the above doesn't apply your soul gets sent to it's alignments plane.
Step 4. You either become a native being of the plane (lesser devil, demon, planetar, etc) or are a spirit that resembles your original body.

This character was chaotic good, meaning they're in Arborea/Olympus. My players are on a crash course to getting into that plane and finding this character, but Olympus is a plane of heroes and has lots of things to fight, what happens if this character dies? Do they get rejudged and just end up where they are again? Are my assumptions wrong and I'm missing something?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

@[email protected] - why not make a custom ruling for this. Make it like Valhalla where the players are stuck on repeat in their plane. They fight, die, ressurect, fight, rinse, lather, repeat.

Use the Planescape rules and your own intuition to craft the scenario, not RAW. It's your world after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm pretty sure that's in Planescape already but yah for sure write it how you like it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The backup plan is always just to make it up, but I prefer to stick to established lore with the hopes that 50 years of ironing out (or retconning) has made it internally consistent enough to get by.