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Felip and company in Amenta
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Then he will cast Mount. Who's next?

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So the scholarship of the afterlives is in basically the same boat as scholarship of magic. The closest they've been able to come up with is people who are doing work on uploading, but that seems like probably a completely metaphysically different thing. They can get him ethicists? Is that relevant?

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He sees there as being four core questions:

1. What happens to them after death. This question has presumably occurred to them before--have they really not managed to get any evidence on the matter?

2. The practical questions of whether they can contact the gods and whether Amentans can turn into clerics.

3. How Amenta's moral consensus and controversy compares to the world he knows. How are Amentans aligned?

4. The strategic questions of whether they should attempt to recruit Amenta into the cosmic war. He is not actually sure of the considerations, here; Golarion was already on the frontlines, and he does not know whether Good or Evil is favored by opening up another front. He sorely wish he knew whether the gods viewed their worshippers as assets or liabilities.

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1. It has ever occurred to them that it might be cool if something happened to them after death but it has never struck them as the kind of question that needs to have a contentful answer, any more than "where were you before you were conceived".

2. They're happy to have some people on that, but, like, what kind of people? What instructions should they have?

3. So, ethicists are a yes?

4. They cannot really shed light on this question, though they're happy to listen to him think out loud and rubber duck about it.

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