Im curious.. Do you have anything about the Tax Collector in your writings?
I actually do not. Most of my worldbuilding was done pre-1.3, and the only stuff I appended in related to the major endgame events.Therefore, you get to witness my process for making crap up off the top of my head regarding this sort of thing (with bonus illustrations):According to my textdump (yes I will continue to link it from time to time for new people), the demons of the Underworld are the souls of the most depraved of the humans from the world’s original civilization, the ones that drove the world into the eldritch ruin it currently is. Mutated beyond recognition by the dark magic surrounding the great soul vaults they created.
However, when you meet the Tax Collector for the first time, it’s in the form of a “tortured soul” implying he’s not actually one of those demons… but was thrown down there as a punishment and is, perhaps, in the process of transforming into one. Since you can still use purification powder on him to turn him back into human, he’s not a soul from the original civilization manifesting as a demon, but a regular human who’s nevertheless ‘wicked’ enough to be converted by the Underworld’s influence. The other souls saw something kindred in him, or something along those lines.
While the guy being recruited from the Underworld is obviously just a tongue-in-cheek reference to people’s low regard for characters bearing his tropes, he’s just generally not a great dude, holding money in higher regard than other people. Where he came from is about as much a mystery as where any of the other NPCs came from, just more settlers stranded by various happenstances, but in his case, he probably pissed off whoever he was originally living with, so they trapped him and dropped him off in the Underworld as punishment for being a jerk.
Won’t stop another adventurer from picking him back up. Perhaps suffering for a bit in the Underworld made him slightly more tolerable. Who’s to know how insufferable he was before he got thrown down there if he acts the way he does now
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