Redemption Earns Life: Difference between revisions

* [[Dungeons and& Dragons]] introduced an unusual variant of this in ''Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells'' with the Hellbred race: a villainous character who discovered the error of their ways and [[Heel Face Turn|had a true change of heart]] just before dying, [[Redemption Equals Death|but did not have time to seek true redemption]] and thus earn an afterlife in the Good or Neutral realms. The planes end up temporarily and quietly warring over their soul, a process known as The Scourging, before the person reincarnates as a Hellbred with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|their memories blurred, muffled, or erased outright]]. They then have a chance to live life anew and possibly earn themselves a better fate... though if they don't do something to get [[Powers That Be|an entity of sufficient power]] to support them Hell will claim their souls anyway. Still, it's a chance they wouldn't have otherwise.