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The hevier are unique in their beliefs on the afterlife. While they do not deny there is an afterlife, they believe the soul ultimately belongs in the material plane, not the outer planes. Often when a hevier dies, they will eventually become an [[Aethra (3.5e Race)|aethra]], and continue to persist in the world a while longer, until the day they join the planet and become part of a growing, unliving god on earth. Those who die with great honor are sometimes artifically given a second life in the form of a [[sarg]], if they do not ascend as aethras of themselves. It is this belief of an unliving material god which frightens outsiders the most, for the hevier believe that all their experiences in life are saved, joined with the experiences of others, and pooled deep below the earth where a physical, material god, an undead god at that, will rise immortal and ascend to diefic status. With disturbing temples and effigy built for yet unknown purposes, but rumored to be trying to feed and hasten the birth of their unliving god, it has given many much to worry about.