Afterlife

Davites believe in an afterlife that holds three different possibilities: joining the Lord, becoming lost in an endless darkness, or becoming a demon yourself.

Those who have confessed their sins, endured adequate penance and completed sufficient good works to wash away their taint will join the Lord of the Springs in eternity at the Fountis (sometimes also called the Wellspring). This is the spring from which the world was born, and all souls clean enough to join it flow back to it after death to become part of that essential purity and goodness. There is much debate about the specific nature of this afterlife, but religious scholars all concur on the basics: it is a blessed state without sorrow or suffering.

Those who die still tainted - for example, those who have failed to confess their sins or been lax in their good works - fail to join with the Lord of the Springs. Without the Fountis, it's rumored that the afterlife is a terrible, dangerous existence involving everything from madness to being feasted upon by demons.

Worst of all, however, is the fate of the uncleansed mage. If not properly purified by fire, mages become demons themselves, condemned to an eternity of darkness. This fate is sheer misery for the mage themselves but also strengthens the forces of evil: as such, Davism considers it essential to cleanse mages properly whenever at all possible.