Elemental Judgement

[Myrryr]

So, had an interesting thought. Pharasma judges all souls (with the possible exception of Great Old Ones/Outer Gods according to that thread), but what about souls that never go to the judgement phase?

Souls are born into the material plane from the positive, die and then go the Boneyard and from there, the Outer Planes based upon their alignment (or rarely get munched by Groetus).

But what about those outsiders in the Inner planes? Elementals and Genies are both born on their home planes, not the material plane, and upon death, their souls are destroyed as their part of their bodies.

So are elementals and genies (and various similar beings) exempt from being judged because they just never enter the flow? Is there a part of their life/death cycle where their soul passes before Pharasma? Are they spontaneously created when soul stuff from the positive brushes up against the inner plane and gets 'stuck', animating fire or earth instead of a baby?

And really curious about genies. From the outside they look just like a run of the mill mortal. When a genie loves another genie very much, a baby genie is carried in by the stork, just like with humans, but do they just get gipped on an afterlife and judgement because of the accident of birth?

[Echo Vining]

As I see it, elementals are a different category of being than mortals or outer-plane outsiders. They are born directly from the energy of their plane, without any influence from the Material at all. So when they die, they just dissipate back into elemental planar energy.

This is a very Planescape view, though. As far as I know, nothing in Golarion's lore has touched on this specific subject yet.

[Myrryr]

Yeah, that's why I was hoping for James to pipe in. I have an elemental playing a key role in my current campaign and I'm very curious what happens to her soul if she dies.

[Numerian]

They have soul (spirit), at least in Planescape, I think they go to the Negative energy plane, and possibly emerge on the other side of the ''black hole'' in the Positive, or dissipate in the Ethereal (in the ether gaps).