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Thanks. It felt quite vile, yet also technically in-line with the "you're sending people to paradise for eternity, shouldn't they be grateful?" line of thinking. Which was gross.

I'm really happy to see Pathfinder doesn't share that perspective.

Thanks! That makes a lot of sense.

As a follow-up, what about the Graveyard of Souls in the Boneyard, where the souls of people who reject the whole idea of a cycle go? While it seems very rare that someone is consigned to it, the Graveyard seems to similarly take souls out of "circulation," so over the course of eons as given souls continue to reject the cycle, would everyone eventually end up in the Graveyard? Or at least a greater and greater fraction of the souls in the cycle? Would the final such soul to be buried be the final judgment that Pharasma knows will eventually happen in your (very cool!) "Three Fears of Pharasma" article?

Hi James. First, just wanted to thank you so much for your work and the work of the incredible people at Paizo. It's inspiring.

Second, I was curious about how daemons relate to the Cycle of Souls. Normally, someone's soul is born out of positive energy, they live, and then they die. The soul then goes to the Boneyard to be judged before being sent to the Outer sphere to become a petitioner or outsider. Eventually the outsider or petitioner is destroyed, and it fuses with its home plane. Which in turn is eroded by the maelstrom, breaking off soul chunks which then drain into the positive energy plane to provide soulstuff for future mortals.

Daemons eat and "destroy" souls, though. Do they just add the soulstuff to themselves, and when they're destroyed it fuses with Abaddon before getting eroded and going back into the Cycle of Souls, or is it just gone? And if the latter, doesn't that mean that since soulstuff (not souls themselves, I get that) exists in a cycle and daemons irreversibly remove soulstuff from that cycle that eventually the universe will inevitably die? And if the former, what's the point of eating souls for a daemon, if the soulstuff will eventually just get dumped back into the multiverse?