Psychopomp

A psychopomp (literally meaning the "guide of souls") are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.

The polytheism of many Earth cultures combined with the scattered demesnes of the Demiurge means that 'afterlife' encompasses a vast set of possibilities. Virtually every sentient race in the universe has similar attitudes towards the hereafter; where souls go, how they are judged, and what happens to a spirit afterwards. The metric for this harmony is complex, rooted in an organic process rather than by force of law or contract.

Competition among the New Gods for souls nearly resulted in significant internecine strife approximately 1000 CE. The vile Chthon was close to overtaking Gaea as the ideologue for the World Tree and casting all creatures and souls in the Demiurge into a realm of perpetual, twisted horror.

Following Chthon's defeat, the primarchs called for a meeting. This Convocation of the Gods resettled old rules that had been forgotten in the aftermath of Ragnarok millennia before. It established that the harmony of a soul could not be changed in death and those tasked with escorting souls-- the Valkyrie, or deities like Hermes and Vanth-- could not divert a soul from its path. They can but guide it, and protect the soul from those entities that live in the Astral Plane and who feed on spirits passing from life to death.