A thought spinning off the Clerical Talks:
Despite the fact that a soul doesn't get a happy afterlife (as I talked about below) and instead is converted into "soulstuff" to be used as needed by a god, the gods don't let that fact out. It could bring about a sort of backlash if intelligent life found out it's just going to potentially be a chair (or anything else, even a powerful angel) with no recollection of its living life when it dies.
Like those devout on this planet, most species believe that when you die your soul goes to the afterlife of the god your worshiped or the afterlife of the god who's aspects your most exemplified and you spend eternity in paradise or nightmare in view of your god. Now, we don't know if that's true or not in real life, but that's what people believe, the same applies to Deminar.
Only in Deminar, WE know it's not true because we made the whole thing up, but the idea is that the gods won't let on to that in fear of losing worshipers. Even if a person doesn't worship anyone, they end up going to the domain of the god who most resembles how they lived their life. So if people found out they don't get any reward for living a good life, they'd mostly act like chaotic heathens (why's it matter what you do?!) and that would beef up the more chaotic and evil gods considerably, so gods don't let that fact out too often. Some of the chaotic gods try to, through their followers (since no god can directly interact with the world, remember?) but most other faiths consider that religious propaganda and don't buy it. If only they knew....
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