Talk:Erya Uzruth/@comment-222.252.177.232-20180826110926/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180826234929

The idea of an afterlife seems to be fairly consistent with human existence.

In evolutionary terms, this could be considered an outcome of the fact that organisms that accept the inevitability of their own deaths as fact tend to die as a result. Combined with the human capacity for reason, which leads to the conclusion that death is inevitable, the only psychological option is belief that death is somehow survivable.

Though the manner of survival can differ. Reincarnation is a popular alternative to the idea of moving on to an entirely different world. And sorting into one of two alternatives based on morality is likewise only one of the possible arrangements involving going to another world.

The existence of Wild Magic, which Fluder calls the magic of the soul, seems to suggest that something like reincarnation would be a popular idea in the New World. On the other hand, certain kinds of magic do seem to lend credence to the idea that the cycle of rebirth can be interrupted, perhaps indefinitely. Thus the New Worlders find nothing unbelievable about Squire Zombies being bound to an eternity of torment.