Re: Souls in elves

[John Hogg <johnhogg@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 Flightgod5@aol.com wrote:

> I'd say the person would have to keep 2 DP totals...one for the soul and one
> for the elf.  The elf would obviously take no damage as the soul strike spell
> specifically strikes souls.  Other spells, like say fireball, would only
> damage the elf and not the soul.  If the elf died, the soul would be trapped
> for said amount of time until it floats off to it's deity.
> 
> Here's something I've been wondering about.  If a priest of Anubis casts Last
> Rites on a corpse, does it fax the soul to Infero or to the recently
> deceased's deity?
> 
> Joel
> 

Doesn't have to be a priest of anubis, think Last rites is core ceremonies
...

I've seen two takes on this:

1)	Handle it like blessings ... that is, only those that follow the
dogma of the priest performing the ceremony can be effected by the
ceremony ...

For your example, all those effected go to anubis, as they likely follow
him anyway.

Of course, I believe there's a statement somewhere in the book (perhaps in
Last Rites description?) that indicates those that DON'T have last rites
cast on them eventually end up in Infero or Kurago anyway (not necessarily
with their diety)

Example, My dead priest of T'or, Creosote, is fishing in Infero, and
visiting with his family, and waiting for Aurmandy or his son to stop by,
by and large having a rather relaxing time in the afterlife ... but he's
not with T'or.

2)	Handle it like you asked about, last rites sends the
soul/sprit/whatever to the target's deity.

I tend to support #2, but I've seen some pretty good arguements for #1

Best one so far:

A priest of Ra can't excommunicate a priest of Osiris

John