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Just to back this up with material from current books: Gods and Magic, under Pharasma: "Once Pharasma has judged a soul, it can no longer be returned from the dead." Also, The Boneyard has the "timeless" quality in the Gamemastery Guide (going back to a non-timeless plane has the possibility of aging a person to dust), so, like, it's *entirely* possible that the soul has been waiting to be judged.

And I don't think that Darvakka's are formed from "post-judged" souls. From The Book of the Dead, they are "made from the quintessence of fiends cast into the void. The soul is not judged, as it "removed." From Secrets of Magic, "A being of pure Spirit would be mindless quintessential or ethereal construct, neither alive nor dead, requiring programming from a creator to act." Think how the Grim Reaper serves as "something of a manifestation of Abaddon itself," but with fiends instead of daemons. The soul of the fiend would likely become pure potentiality in the Maelstrom and head towards the Antipode to enter the cycle again.

Also here's the reason made in Secrets of Magic why undead are evil: "Let's address undead. If negative energy isn't evil, why are undead evil? The tragedy of undeath is that it perverts negative energy outside its natural role of destruction and forces it to create." Resurrection is a-ok with Pharasma, as it does *not* pervert this process. It's not that the undead have "souls," but that, from the BotD, "The teaching of Pharasma claim [...] that undead are an abomination upon all reality, that their very existence, as beings by a force meant for destruction, throws the universe out of balance." Basically f#+!ing with the Negative Energy Plane is a big no-no. Is there a buncha consequences *for* souls if it's f~#*ed with? Sure, which is why undead are anathemic.