Petitioner

The strange combination of a mortal and outsider and made of bound-mana and ethos, they are considered the lowest stage of an Imbued outsider. As guided by a Reaper after death, they pass to the Spire through a opened portal on the Ethereal Plane and arrive within the Court of Judgement. Here they are judged by the Elder Goddess, bound to a plane beyond the material, usually one of the Greater Nine or the Elemental Planes, and then sent along their way. This journey to judgement that begins upon reaching Limbo from the Ethereal Plane takes about 1 material plane week per cairn level of the individual, though the actual judging takes about 1 material plane hour per cairn level. Even souls that are unable to access magic, or live with out knowledge of the divine are judged fir their actions and intentions then sent to a plane with the appropriate alignment, ideology, ethics and so on for the soul, usually to the shock of the fresh petitioner.

Upon arriving at their new plane of existence, the petitioner is met by a different existence, a combination brought for by their own personal experiences, the will of the deities of the plane and even which plane they are sent to which they must succeed in unlocking their inner potential and evolving, or being consumed for power by other entities or the plane itself. Each type of plane has its' own type of petitioner:

### Heaven

Souls sent here become known as a member of the the Chosen. These select souls are thus greeted at the Gates of Heaven by Umtheniel, a Lord of Heaven and left-hand of the god Tyriel. They are then shown to whichever of the eight layers of Heaven that suits their talents to be best utilized for the glory of Heaven as they begin their ascent as an imbued archon. Some are forged directly by Heaven deities into various angels and archons.

### Nirvana

Those that receive the judgement to be sent here become known as the Enlightened. Souls are sent to the Everpool, a large quiet frozen lake of mana and lifeforce that radiates a calm inner focus. There they begin their journey to becoming an imbued agathions. Some are forged into their agathion or angelic form by a deity of the realm.

### Elysium

Beings that are sent to the Fair Fields become known as the Exalted. They are left to mingle and experience all the realm has to offer, growing in their own ways. It is here that they will begin the process of changing into an imbued azata. Some souls are forged into their beastial or angelic outsider forms by the whims of the planes deities.

### Axis

The ordered minds that follow the directions given during judgement to the the First City become known as the Regulated and set to work within the lowest positions within the city. Over time, they begin to understand the riddles strewn across their bodies and are remade into imbued inevitables. Other bypass this, instantly forged into their aeonic or inevitable form by the whims of Anwai.

### Limbo

The rarest of the known petitioners, those that truly were not attached to one ideology or another as well as those that sought balance arrive in Limbo for judgement and never leave, though as two different type of petitioners. The first are known as the Dispersed, those that were aimless and held no direction or ambition in life. Within the Spire, they are given a second chance to develop a purpose and move on to another plane. The second, know as the Clergy, become guardians of the souls and wardens of balance. Here they seek the Elder Goddesses blessing, becoming both an imbued and forged outsider, an aeon.

### Maelstrom

The multitude of beings cast into the Maelstrom for their chaos as judgement, known as the Lost, find themselves in the care of the proteans and rarely Kenshi himself. Their fates are as varied as the beings themselves, and the only proteans to be found that are not core outsiders are those forged by the God of Madness himself.

### Hell

Condemned to Hell, those souls that fall into the care of the devils are known as the Damned. They begin being tortured and ruthlessly abused until nothing remains and they begin their descent to becoming imbued devils. Only the most merciless and devote souls undergo the painful forging into their new devilish form at hands of Asmodeus or one of his Arch-Devils.

### Abaddon

Those judged to be sent to the Dead Plains are given two options: They may join Hell under Asmodeus, signing a contract with Kelmunthee, a powerful pitfiend who serves both Asmodeus and the Elder Goddess, or continue to Abaddon. Those that spurn the devils' contract are instead forever to known as the Hunted as the struggle to survive amid the daemon infest landscape, eventually becoming daemons. No core daemon has ever been recorded, and only the deacons, daemons created by the Horsemen can claimed to be forged outsiders and all daemons see Charon as their lord.

### Abyss

The souls that flow quickest from the court of Yumee in judgement are tossed into various Abyssal rifts, though all are given the same other option as the souls condemned to Abaddon; They may join Hell under Asmodeus, signing a contract with Kelmunthee. Most spurn this, and find themselves among one of the innumerable Abyssal realms as a member of the Riftbound slowly changing into demons. There is no recorded forged or core demons.

### First World

The petitioners of this plane are quite different then others, as they become known as a member of the Incarnated and take the form of their spirit animal. They spent their time among the various wilds of the realm before becoming one of the many diverse wild spirits known as Fey.

### Plane of Life

Few of the life-born mortals are hand picked by the Goddess of Life to help her in the mysterious crafting of mortal life. These few are known as the Hands and soon begin their slow journey into the forged champions of the plane; Lifebinders.

### Plane of Death

While many mortals pass beyond the "veil of death" few ever truly cross the Shadow Plane to the actual Plane of Death. Those that are judged to eternity here are forcibly bound to anti-life upon arriving in the plane, corrupting their ethos and becoming undead outsiders under the sway of the Lich Queen known as a member of Maledictus. Eventually those can gain enough power to withstand their conversion, becoming Nightshades, ethosian creatures that feed upon lifeforce.