This is a really Niche and Nerdly post, BUT:
So in Age of Sigmar there are these guys called The Stormcast Eternals, who are mortals chosen by Sigmar(a mashup of Zeus, Odin, Thor, and Heracles) to be his soldiers(they're the setting's Spess Marins), and they're 'Eternals' because, everytime they die, they're "Reforged"(reincarnated and re-embodied) to continue fighting. But they have this plotline that the "Reforging" isn't perfect so a little piece of their souls are "winnowed" off everytime they die and they make a big angsty deal out of it and I'm like:
This sounds like a kickback to me.
For context: there's a Death God in this setting named Nagash, and his primary personality traits are 1)He's a Tyrant, 2)He's a Jerk, and 3)He Betrays Everyone at Every Opportunity. And GW makes the whole Reforging thing a Beef btwn Sigmar and Nagash like "you're stealing those souls they belong to me!" But you don't need to do that cuz Look at Who Nagash Is. Like: you could just have it be that the Winnowing is Nagash's cut, the tax he asked Sigmar to pay to keep using these souls, and Nagash remains an enemy after the deal anyway because he's just incapable of being chill or trustworthy about anything at all to anyone at anytime.