Editing TROS in the Hammer:Setting Religion (section)

===What happens when I die?===
When a person dies, their shade is released back into God.  If it is sufficiently concentrated and/or amplified, it remains there, becoming a Spirit.    If not, it cannot remain with God and instead "falls back" into matter, becoming a new human being.  This new human has no memories of its previous existence due to its mingling with God.  Hence, a person may go through a number of lives before finally leaving matter behind.

As to the so-called "Ancestor Shades" that the Informatii revere, the People believe these are little more than reflections of former lives in the mind of God at best, or corruptions of the Enemy at worst.  They most certainly are NOT the actual loved ones who once walked among us.  Contact with the Shades is absolutely forbidden among the People as "Witchcraft", and is one of the few crimes punishable by death among them.