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Ah! Here's the thing: if a hag steals a soul in her soul bag, the body it belongs to can't be resurrected. It CAN be animated. If the soul is consumed by a hag or a being the hag sells/barters the soul to, it, er, passes out the other end diminished. So the soul...
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Woah!
Are you saying that being eaten by a hag means the SOUL is eaten too?! Permanent, forever death with no afterlife?
What other perils in the world of Faerûn carries this same level of danger? Becoming a vampire or lich, etc?
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...survives, but lessened. So the soul likely cannot come back as whatever being it formerly was, but something lesser (lemures, etc.). And if the hag sells/barters the soul to a devil who's not outcast, the soul WILL be put into a devil to live a "new life."
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Hags rarely dine on souls they capture, because they're "ruining goods" they can sell or barter. However, if they desperately want a talent the being had (spellfire wielding, for instance) and think they can get it by eating the soul, or if they are themselves...
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...very weak or wounded, and need the life-essence, they will devour a soul they catch.
Looking at the title of what we've just heralded, soul taking MIGHT just feature in some small way in its contents...
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