Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
On the other hand, the fact the afterlife is real and measurable is very funny in a sort of 'fridge logic' way. Like, how long has Sharlayan been sitting on 'we know the answer to the most core unanswerable question that much of abstract thought, theory and religion is based around'? How secret do they keep that to themselves? Is that something you're told when you're elected to the Forum? 'Here's your office, our full meetings are on Thursdays, and here's your key to the Afterlife Observation Deck'.

I've got a video on the afterlife on the backburner (it's quite doable, but I've only got so much time in my day and other videos have proven more interesting), it's interesting that broadly, there's a few cultures that got reasonably close on how the afterlife works. The Amal'jaa probably got the closest, although their details had the advantage of being written after the Aitiascope's stuff; after them the closest is the Dotharl. The Twelve's religion somehow got the existence of the heavens right, but everything else wrong, including how they themselves relate to the heavens.

The only belief that I'd say is completely untrue is actually Garlemald's as it came up in Jullus' Lodestone short story, but it's not clear how much of that they actually believe versus how much of that was just... well, Jullus trying to come up with a culturally-appropriate prayer in about six seconds.
Just to add something, the dortharl got the reincarnation part right but its extremely selective. Anyone who dies in battle while a baby is being born gets reincarnated while everyone else joins the goddess (or god, i cant remember exactly).