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Ethereal Traveler 10-05-03, 02:30 PM	The Monster Manual describes a ghost as a "spectral remnant" or a "spiritual form" of intelligent beings with unfinished business on the Material Plane. Kelemvor receives all the dead on The Fugue Plane for eventual judgment. Is a ghost a "fragment" of a soul waiting to be judged? If a souls turn comes up for judgment and their business remains unfinished, does Kelemvor have some kind of "cosmic override" ability to claim the whole soul and send it on its way?
Morka 10-06-03, 01:36 PM	I think a ghost is a soul who's death was so horrible (or with an unfinished task) that didn't go to the Fugue Plane. Or maybe it goes, but escape either before or after the Kelemvor's judgement. In any case, I think the only way Kelemvor could have to hunt those souls are Priests, Paladins, or other undead hunters. Otherwise, there would be none of them, and they shouldn't be in the monster manual at all. I even think about ghost NPC. His death was so horrible that Kelemvor, in his judgement, allowed it to return on the Prime Material plane as a ghost. The soul was so traumatized that it didn't remember what deity it was worshipping during his life, so Kelembor judged it was unjust to put it in the Wall of Unfaithfull for another one's fault.