Dumah Assessor

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Dumah Assessor

Angels of Silence and the Stillness of Death

The dumah [DOOM-uh] are a peculiar kind of outsider unique to Sheol. Neither a psychopomp responsible for ushering souls, nor an inevitable responsible for enforcing rules, they occupy a strange kind of liminal middle ground. They’re responsible for the fate of the petitioners of Sheol, ensuring the higher-ups do not overstep any of the rules of the Institution, approving promotion or demotion requests, and making sure the number of souls on each tier are kept in balance. They are simultaneously part of the Institution and outside of it, seem to have no rank of their own, and can make judgements on members of tiers of any seniority, should they wish.

Dumah are tall, linen-wrapped figures carrying tablet and stylus or scroll and quill. They all have perfectly smooth, featureless faces, and no names or identifying marks. Nobody really knows how many dumah there actually are—chant goes there is a panel of seven of them, but whether there are just seven in total, or in fact thousands, is dark. They move through the levels on irregular schedules, observe petitioners at work without comment, make marks on their tablets, and leave. Their assessments determine promotion or demotion, although the criteria are not published. Formal requests for the criteria are logged, filed, and never answered—though the logging and filing is done with admirable efficiency. Little more is known about them for they do not speak aloud, instead communicating only in writing. Higher-ups and petitioners alike dread receiving a dumah missive, for they rarely bear positive news.

Whether the dumah even registers the suffering they preside over is unknown, as it has never been successfully communicated with by any means other than written correspondence — which it answers in precise, bureaucratic language that reveals nothing.

Chant goes the dumah assessors are led by a singular individual paragon, unhelpfully known as The Dumah. Whether they are a proxy or Mot or something else entirely, is dark.

Stats: Homebrew [ PF2e ]

Sources: Jon Winter-Holt. Dumah (also called ‘the angel of silence and the stillness of death’) is an angel from Rabbinic and Islamic literature who has authority over the wicked dead.