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Gaardin Wolf Chaser wrote:

I played a PFS scenario recently that referred to one character selling another character's soul to a denizen of Hell (both were mortals), and I found that surprising. My instinct would be to think that a person could only sell their own soul (although that could just be an assumption of my real-world Christian milieu that doesn't apply on Golarion).

What are the general conditions under which someone can sell someone else's soul to a devil and/or Hell, if that is possible?

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You can't sell someone's soul unless they consent. Of course, you can always TRICK or FORCE someone into consenting to sell a soul; that's like the most basic central story folks tell about selling souls.

For example, if you sign an innocent looking contract to build a house and hidden in the fine print is "As part of this contract the signee agrees to allow the contractor 1 year within the signatory date the opportunity to sell the signee's soul to a devil," or the like, you give up your soul, potentially.

How it worked in this PFS scenario? I don't know... might have been an error, might be more information you aren't privy to.

I'm not actually very concerned with the specifics of the scenario in question. It could just be an error, I could have missed where they covered that part in the scenario text I read or it could be that person A forced person B to sell their soul and the details aren't mentioned. That's okay.

The only reason I asked is that the implication in the part I did read seemed to be that person A sold person B's soul with no real interaction with person B and it seemed wrong. Thank you for answering the question.

I played a PFS scenario recently that referred to one character selling another character's soul to a denizen of Hell (both were mortals), and I found that surprising. My instinct would be to think that a person could only sell their own soul (although that could just be an assumption of my real-world Christian milieu that doesn't apply on Golarion).

What are the general conditions under which someone can sell someone else's soul to a devil and/or Hell, if that is possible?

I was doing some bookwork on my Bladebound Magus earlier today and ran into the section where the Black Blade gets skill ranks in Knowledge (Arcana) at a very weird pace. That's all fine.

The text doesn't have any suggestion that Knowledge (Arcana) is a class skill for the Black Blade. I'm fine with that although it seems weird. Is there some rule coming from somewhere else (or something I'm otherwise missing) that would give the blade Arcana as a class skill? Just making sure I'm not missing something.

While I'm at it, my reading of the languages part is that the Black Blade gains additional languages but not any ranks in Linguistics. I wouldn't have mentioned it but while browsing the web for advice on the first point I ran into someone claiming that the Black Blade got Linguistics ranks and that just looks wrong to me.