Editing TROS in the Hammer:Setting Religion (section)

===What happens when I die?===
The Pastor taught that death is truly the end of exisitence.  There is no real afterlife.  Sort of.

While your own individual consciousness may not exactly persist beyond death, your memory does; all of those things you did that people remember you for contribute to creating a recordatio (recollection, memory, a difficult word to translate) of yourself in the minds of others and in the fabric of nature itself.  The recordatii (what the People call shades) are what are contacted by what the People call "witchcraft", and what the Informatii call the ars memoria.  The Pastor did not teach that the recordatii were the actual spirits or souls of the dead; the Pastor repudiated such concepts as being irrational.  But they were, nevertheless, important tokens, reminders, and presences of the dead in our lives, and worthy of veneratio.