Grim Reapers

## Description

An organization of lawful neutral Celestial beings known as Grim Reapers, or Reapers for short. These celestials intercept the souls of mortal beings as they die and bestow their own judgement upon them.

## Appearance

Reapers appear as humans, but with bright chartreuse phosphorescent green eyes. Almost all Reapers wear glasses due to their nearsightedness, and wear formal black clothing.

## Roleplaying Tips

The majority of Reapers are very lawful neutral. They are forbidden to interfere with the normal lives of mortals, other than to bestow judgement upon their deaths, or to prevent mortals from interfering with their judgement.

Most hate wasting time, as the time for them to intercept a soul must happen within a minute of that soul's death. They will often attack anyone interfering with them.

Reapers despise demons and devils, who will also intercept souls, or kill mortals en masse, making more work for the Reapers.

Reapers will attempt to prevent supernatural killing of mortals, or their souls from being snatched away by other entities such as demons or Shadar-kai.

They oppose undead, as they are bodies without souls, or souls who have escaped judgement.

## Motives

The Reapers primary motive is to judge the souls of those who just died, able to decide which plane they would be sent to, or revivify them if judged that their lives should continue. They view themselves as outside the divine and fiends, able to fairly judge souls without bias.

## Gear

These items are bestowed to Reapers by the Gods of Death.

### Reaper Spectacles

These glasses allow the Grim Reapers to locate the souls written in their Soul Retrieval lists.

### Soul Retrieval List

A tome bestowed to a Reaper by the gods of death. They list the names, location, and appearance of those about to die.

### Death Scythe

A dying soul struck with a Death Scythe have their "Cinematic Record" played, in which a spectral film appears and replays the creatures' memories. As a standard, these weapons take the form of magical gardening tools such as scythes.

## History

Naturally a Reaper is only able to be created on a specific parallel universe of Earth (As described in the Black Butler anime and manga), when a neutral aligned human soul dies and is not judged to be good enough to enter heaven, or evil enough to be cast down to hell. The Reapers consider this to be a punishment, and believe themselves to be able to enter heaven once they have done enough work to make up for their inaction in life. Therefore Grim Reapers band together and act as lawful in order to complete their work more efficiently and end their punishments.

At the start of the year, the rifts have begun connecting to the Earth of the Reapers, bringing them to Daleos. A small number have managed to regather themselves and petition several gods of death to support their work.

They have managed to set up a base of operations in a specific demiplane of Mechanus where they rest when not collecting souls.

## Relationships

The Reapers' connections with the gods of death are a strenuous relationship, as the Reapers consider themselves to be outside of both the divine and fiends, good and evil, and will not always act in their sponsoring gods' best interests. However, they do serve their purpose of lessening the gods' work and judging souls for them, so the gods are willing to put up with them and allow their interference, occasionally punishing them if they step too far out of line however.

### Sponsoring Gods

* Raven Queen
* Vecna
* Orcus
* Kelemvor
* Lathander
* Bhaal

### Enemies

* Demons
* Devils
* Necromancers (and Necromancy as a whole)
* Clerics

### Rivals

* Shadar-kai
* Angels