Editing Planes of Existence (section)

==== The Grand Judgment ====
Every mortal being who dies becomes a spirit and must await judgment by the Many-Named One. Spirits who wander the Ethereal Plane eventually come to an infinitely long tower with a large entrance leading to a winding stone passage that opens into the Hall of Judgment, a ballroom-sized stone chamber in which sits the Many-Named-One. This being resembles whatever the spirit looked like in life. It has a book, the Book of Names, which contains the spirit’s entire life, recorded, using the spirit’s True Name. The Many-Named-One reads the record of the spirit’s life and determines where the spirit is to go. The spirit’s destination is almost always one of the many Outer Planes.

===== The Many-Named-One =====
The god and overseer of the Ethereal Plane. When you die the MNO looks like something you would recognize, and thus has many names in many different cultures. The MNO is a god who made a pact with Entropy to rule the Ethereal and direct the divinity (spirit) of departed souls to their final destination. As such, the MNO is completely suffused with entropy and may likely be undead— but moreover, since every spirit passes by him prior to moving on, he has a steady and consistent supply of worshipers.

The Many-Named One has four chief deva who aid him:

Atelian, the gatekeeper

Fenelal and Torperian, the guardians

Istethoth, the assistant

The fog of the Ethereal Plane is the Many-Named One, as it seeps continually from his body (his true form, supposedly). This fog is incredibly deadly, particularly in the Deep Ethereal, where any creature with a soul will have their bodies stripped from them if they venture too deep. Because of this, the deva in the Endless Spire wear sophisticated masks and armor that prevent them from coming into contact with the fog.