man this is factually WRONG the wall of the faithless wasn't created to "punish" those who refused to worship gods,
I don't think anyone said it was there to punish people... just that it was there and was a thing.
it was created by Myrkul who was the god of the dead after Jergal and its purpose was to not only to force mortals to worship out of fear but to make sure they remember him if he ever got killed, after all gods in dnd don't truly die while there is still someone that remembers them and what better way to claim his place in history than by creating the biggest cosmic abomination against mortals, heck the freaking wall isn't even necessary for Forgotten Realms cosmology it wasn't there originally it was something that Myrkul did out of his overwhelming douchebaggery, the cosmology would still work just fine if the damn wall wasn't there,
Yep, that's absolutely correct. It doesn't need to be there, and indeed MOST of the neutral and good aligned deities in the realms pantheon are against it existing.... they can't do anything about it because there are divine laws about deities interceding directly on the folios of other gods, and countermanding their 'works'. For a while it didn't exist any more, because Myrkul was out of the picture, but sadly he's back again and so is it, as far as our latest sources say, I believe. Nobody, god or mortal, wants it to exist except Myrkul, more or less.
In terms of resurrecting and the like, the wall has functionally no impact on the mechanics - it takes longer for a soul to become unrecognisable and unclaimable by resurrection than all but the longest timeframe options, and the longest one is reality-warping magic that can absolutely restore whatever remains of a soul trapped for that long... however, if you play in a game where you acknowledge the wall, and you have a faithless person in your group, it may be worth thinking about their experience if they are dead for more than a few days, but do get returned to life; there's going to be some unpleasantness, no doubt.
