> The details of the rest of it are undocumented, so far as I can see. > We know there's reincarnation. We don't know if there's a large > initial pool, or if new souls are also created on-the-fly as needed. I found passages in _Teckla_ about reincarnation that may be appropriate for this discussion. It mentions that: The Halls of Judgment is a place for Dragaeran souls and in order to arrive there, they must be sent over the Falls, and, "unless some god especially liked or disliked the guy, he'd take his place as part of a thriving community of dead persons." And if they're not brought over the Falls: "Well, if he was killed with a Morganti dagger, the issue was settled. Or, if he'd worked out some arrangement with his favorite god, then the god had the pleasure of doing anything he wanted with the soul. Other than that, he'd be reincarnated." As for reincarnation: "...I remember that an unborn child exerts a kind of mystical pull and will draw in the soul most suited to it. If no soul is appropriate, there will be no birth. If there is no child appropriate to a soul, the soul waits in a place that the necromancers call 'The Plane of Waiting Souls' because they aren't very imaginative." Of course, this doesn't tell us what the initial pool was like, or if new souls are created, but there is a place where they hang out and wait for a new body. (The above passages, BTW, were told to Vlad by Aliera, and we all know how good Vlad's memory is.:) Just thought I'd add in what I'd just read. :) Chris (Yeah, rereading Tekla. I felt like being depressed.:) "Blind man's night is music to the deaf, and everyone has *two* paths, not one, whence comes tragedy and comedy, forsooth and damn straight, son." - "The Gypsy" - Brust & Lindholm