Where do ghosts come from in the Sims?
When sims die the Grim Reaper comes to collect their soul. The Reaper uses its scythe and extracts the soul. Then the body turns into either a tombstone or an urn (depending on whether you die outs...
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Hmm... Interesting point...
One fun thing to remember is that when The Sims 4 was released, there were no ghosts. Sims that died were gone... Ghosts were added into game a month later.
Yet as the animation has been same for 10 years, there has to be a reason...
My guess? It's collecting the body which is turned into a spirit-like substance. But if we go through that theory that it's a soul, let's look into the Reaper career from Life & Death. When your sim reaps someone, they'll get their soul in their inventory which can be sent to the netherworld through the portal. Ghosts can freely come out from the portal to sabotage the workplace, so ghosts can always come out of that place.
That is true. The spirits do sneak back into the "physical" sims world from time to time and the Reapers have to go back and wrangle them back up again. So it isn't like once they go thru the portal that's it for them. It is a game after all so maybe I need to not think so hard about it?
