Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150304021219/@comment-146.113.65.171-20150409232735

Misstress of the heavenly yard wrote: The grim reaper is more of a collector of the souls of dead than a killer The Grim Reaper is an archetype that has been reinterpreted many many times over several centuries. Sometimes it's a killer. It certainly doesn't have to be the ACTUAL Grim Reaper for it to be a reference to the archetype. Sometimes he picks names because they sound cool or thematically appropriate. Grim Reaper=Scary figure associated with death.