@ASTA: [quote=Dark Jack]"Their souls at some point developed a defect that cause them to disintegrate if they aren't bound to a body" certainly is [an explanation]]. This would be an acceptable basis for the trait to exist.[/quote] Citing it in case you missed it. Basically, both faith-related reasons (which would be somewhat unreliable) and their souls being different (which would more or less ensure none of them would ever have an afterlife) would work. 

[quote=Dark Jack]Generally speaking magical energy can only be manipulated, and thus also drained, through magic (which is a wide term in this case, basically referring to the control of energy with one's mind). Both the Xuhrl-njok and Gerald do it by touching their victim and pulling energy from it and into themselves by extending the flow of their own souls into the other's, and I honestly think that is the most feasible way to do it.[/quote]
[quote=yoshua171]So if the key way we see mortal beings absorbing magical energy be through a magical process, and we see that Del-korm already have rather strange soul make-up [...] then would it be too far of a stretch to say that the process that allows them to increase the power of their Echoing(magic) by way of absorbing the voice(magic) of another be something that can be attributed to a soul evolution/mutation?[/quote] Seeing how his mother and him share the trait, making it another mutation could work, perhaps (as far as I am aware). ASTA considered it interesting, from what I know. 

[quote=Dark Jack]All of the gods (excluding Rilon) have an innate desire to do good, but they also have different perceptions of what "good" and "evil" is. Frenis may seem more evil than good to most, but that doesn't mean that he himself doesn't view his actions as benevolent.[/quote] How is the drive to do good orientated? Solely according to the specific individual's understanding of good and evil? (With deities getting a pass from the usual consequences of being judged by others, since their alignment is predetermined ... meaning that they can have rather twisted perception of good and evil with little repercussions aside of the disdain of fellow deities.)
 - I recall you described Rilon as not understanding good (?), and being unable to act good no matter what he wanted (though it could be just the drive to do evil overpowering his conscious thinking).

(Random: what creatures do get an afterlife? Do all at least somewhat intelligent animals get one? (Animals who are intelligent enough to like or dislike certain individuals, for example?) What about plants (or, at least, poor Anaxim)?)

And I see about the deities not affecting their followers' location more specifically, and there being no division to regions present. I take that canonically, what specific deity you believe in has little effect on what your afterlife would be like?