"We don't reincarnate, we have afterlives. Some of them are bad."

"...Bad how?"

"Like millennia of torment bad. Culminating in annihilation or turning into the native evil outsider varietal."

"Are there current projects to change that that I could affect from here?"

"That last bit being an important caveat, I think not."

"Maybe worth revisiting that if it starts looking like I could visit. So. What got you curious about the old ones?"

"People'll describe my species as 'always chaotic evil' and it's just - people being wrong about things, so I wondered."

"Well. It's not just that."

"So I now understand. Does it work out all right, not testing people and letting them grow up? Do they ever grow... more... up, in a moral direction?"

"Honestly, it works fine, though I’m not totally sure what you mean by growing more up."

"Developing, like, a more refined and sensitive and emotionally-rooted appreciation for reasons not to hurt people."

"For specific people, definitely, for people in general, I don't know and I'm not sure how odd it is not to have even one definite example."

"It'd be weird on Golarion, but this isn't it. And your entire pool of souls is working on different rules so I can't generalize as much as I would about some obscure Golarion species."

"Were souls something you studied on - I thought I heard your species was from Castrovel but apparently not?"

"The species is, but there are some of us on Golarion. Two major subspecies, surface elves and drow, I'm a drow."

"Cool!"

"If you say so! We have this specieswide problem where we don't like babies, which drow solve with slave labor and surface elves solve with slowly going extinct, so I assume Castrovel is different in some important way, but I've never been there."

"...That's weird. And there's not ongoing communication so you could ask?"

"Nah. You'd have to be an archmage. A Sending would probably make it but you'd have to know somebody and they have a hell of a word limit."

"...Are you likely to be stuck here?"

"Weirdly enough going to another plane is easier than going to another planet! It may take months or years, and I suppose my party members could decide to give up at some point in the process, but I do think they will be able to find me if they keep working on it - having a known person to target helps with a lot of things. I could maybe finesse it myself if I managed to circle up enough but I don't know if the right sorts of adventuring are present here."

"What sorts of adventuring are right?"

"Inconveniently it seems like it needs to involve high stakes risks. Traditionally to one's own life or freedom but there is some reason to think that sufficiently dire consequences to others or one's status or something might also work, it would explain how people from noble families who aren't allowed to go on dangerous adventures sometimes wind up with an odd level of power regardless."

"Probably better than being able to get more powerful by killing random people who can't fight back."

"Yeah, that doesn't work even at low circles."