“I understand the poor ghosts much better now than when they first terrified me,” said Cazaril diffidently. “I thought their exile and erosion was a rejection by the gods, at first, a damnation, but now I know it for a mercy.
The actions in one's life determine the fate of one's soul. Evil people cannot bear the afterlife their souls remember the terrible life they led. Damnation is thus a mercy for the wicked, they forget themselves and drift as incorporeal spirits, loosing definition.