Do all creatures go to the same afterlife planes (even aliens and the like)?

[Yqatuba]

Just wondering. I could see some race of aliens or other weird creatures going to some obscure demiplane when they die (perhaps they are poweful enough to create said demiplane, but Pharisma just goes along with it and sends them there)

[Tender Tendrils]

I think the starfinder setting sort of implies that the planes are pretty much universal - there is just one hell that is hell for everyone instead of each planet having it's own hell, and so forth.

For the most part, you can't tell if hell is full of alien souls because everyone who ends up there becomes a Lemure anyway.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

They might not go to the same places on those planes, though. You tend to end up in your god's realm, not just on their plane. There are gods that are mostly specific to certain species. So halfling followers of a halfling god won't usually be in the same realm as martian followers of a martian god. OTOH halfling and martian followers of a non-species-specific god probably do end up in the same realm, so the segregation is incomplete.

[Mechagamera]

It is also possible that different types of beings would perceive the outer planes differently. Most PC's are humanoids (or humanoid-like in PF1), so they perceive Hell as being full of humanoid-like fiends. A race of sentient plants that didn't have a humanoid-like form might perceive Hell as being full of plant-like fiends that have the exact same stat blocks as the humanoid-like fiends PC's normally fight.

[PossibleCabbage]

Yup, but the outer planes are infinitely large so a soul from Golarion and a Soul from Earth might both end up in Axis, and never be anywhere close to each other.

[James Jacobs]

The outer planes we detail for Golarion are big, but there's so much more room out there, potentially, for all sorts of other types of outer planes. It's certainly possible for other worlds to be associated with other planes that no one on Golarion knows about, but the fundamental structure of the Great Beyond remains the same regardless. AKA: Everything that dies goes through the Boneyard.

[Perpdepog]

Mechagamera wrote:

It is also possible that different types of beings would perceive the outer planes differently. Most PC's are humanoids (or humanoid-like in PF1), so they perceive Hell as being full of humanoid-like fiends. A race of sentient plants that didn't have a humanoid-like form might perceive Hell as being full of plant-like fiends that have the exact same stat blocks as the humanoid-like fiends PC's normally fight.

I tend to subscribe to this idea too. It works for beings of different bodytypes, like humanoids, plants, hyper-intelligent shades of the color blue, etc, and also for things like beings of different technology levels and societies.

I.e, people from a world like Golarion tend to see more baroque depictions of Hell, while someone from a more technologically-savvy world might see Hell as a massive, ruthlessly efficient and high-tech factory processing souls.

It also explains why outsiders seem to use technology comparable to the setting when they presumably also deal with species who have access to things like plasma rifles and powered armor, and why they don't employ those weapons on Golarion.

[Claxon]

I mean, Elves are aliens. Elves go through the same afterlife process everyone else does.

Ergo, it's reasonable to assume everyone goes through the same afterlife process. Though as already mentioned, the outer planes are infinite, so there's a lot of room for people to be sequestered in there own area that no one else has been to.

[PossibleCabbage]

One of the things I like to make gods and various outsiders "alien" from our perspective is their ability to conceive of things that mere mortals cannot. Like "infinite dimensional objects" which others can only view a cross section of at any given time.

So it's likely Hell doesn't really look like any particular mortal's conception of Hell, it looks like all of those conceptions at once, it's just that mortals can only see one facet of the whole at any given time.