>>5471814>>5471819>>5471912>>5471992>>5472016>>5472022>>5472409>89Continuing your work with the dead in your spare time then, you've finally figured out what to do with those elven souls. Reincarnation! As cats! Spiritual or otherwise, it's not an afterlife by any measure but it's something more than just endless bleak undeath. Whether they be worthy or willing, you figure it wouldn't hurt to fashion yourself some divine servants out of the resource available to you. Maybe if you had an afterlife or were part of a pantheon you wouldn't need it, but as you are you'll take whatever help you can get.
The trouble as always is dealing with impure souls, those corrupted by twisted humanity. The elves, the dwarves, the whole rotten lot of humans ruined themselves by straying from the human ideal. Ironically you could interact with them physically without trouble, but their souls bear the risk of harming you. Not in any lethal way, but corrupting your divinity as they corrupted themselves.
Misery loves company, something like that.
<span class="mu-r">"Come now, you'll appreciate a new life better than this. Better a cat than lost with the dead..."</span>
Although it takes some trial and error and more than a few failed attempts, eventually and clutching your ankh, you can perform the process of reincarnation! An elven soul into a cat, a real one for starters but in time you could make spiritual ones as well, or some combination of both.
Certainly it benefits the souls themselves, and best of all you... mostly manage to avoid sullying your own divinity in the process of working with these inhuman spirits. Nothing you can't recover from with a little recuperation after each time. Though it cannot ever be totally without risk, and while you find yourself personally able to manipulate and interact with the inhuman souls without much danger, the problem you are finding is their clustering to your realm of the dead. On a one-to-one basis you can manage, but there's starting to be so many elven souls to your realm that you have a hard time finding humans in fact. And every time you try to venture to your dead realm, the concentration of elves is dangerous to even be near.
