Afterlife and cosmology
Explore beliefs about death and the nature of existence.
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- CelestA land named in the Hymn of Passing of the Draklin Blot, which bids a slain beast sail to fair shores and hunt the beasts of Celest.
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- The GateThe final threshold before the afterlife, which the souls of the dead reach about a minute after death and where Rakash the Gatekeeper meets them and their first judgement begins.
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- Halls of RakashThe halls to which, in the hunting customs of the Frann and giant cultures, a slain prey is wished a smooth passing.
- HaraatAn archangel of Rakash who keeps the souls of the dead in the Waiting Halls until the emissaries of the gods come to collect them.
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- RevivedPeople who died and were brought back among the living, remembering nothing of the afterlife but a voice calling them back, and living with the secret of their return.
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- Waiting Halls of HaraatThe peaceful halls beyond the Gate where departed souls wait, free of pain and hunger, until the servants of the gods come to collect them.