The Underworld

The Underworld is where the soul goes, brought by psychopomps after your death. It is a large place, one of darkness made for the dead, where the soul is judged and accounts are settled. There are rules to this place. One cannot come and go on a whim. Those who come to the Underworld unbidden may not return to the land of the living. Gods doing business may come and go provided they follow the other rules. Each who come will be judged, in time, in turn, fairly and with all the stories of their lives weighted in equal measure. No one save the gods of the dead shall consume anything -- food or the like -- from the lands of the dead. If they do so they may never return above. That which the lands above might value is to be pushed to them and not kept below; rich soil, veins of minerals, and so on. What we push to the land of the living will keep them from digging too far below.
==Time==
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The further into the Underworld you get, the slower time passes. It functions a bit like a black hole; the further one is from the center of the space, the more normal one feels. This means any time you are in the underworld you can have as much or as little time pass as you like.
==Location==
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In the TItanomachy there are multiple entrances to the Underworld which are stable and can be easily found. Gods are welcome to sense them or just know their locations. Mortals can be told by gods and walk right in if they find it. But in all cases they must follow the rules, once they enter.Wikipedia - Greek underworld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_underworld
In other time periods, the entrances have faded and can not be accessed.
Once inside the Underworld, there are distinct geographies. Five rivers span the area. The Styx (upon which the gods themselves swear inviolate oaths) is the crossing that Charon rows the dead across.Wikipedia - Styx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx The Acheron is the river of misery and woe.Wikipedia - Acheron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheron The Pyriphlegethon is the river of blazing fireWikipedia Phlegethon, the Cocytus is the river of wailing, a circular river that empties into TartarusWikipedia - Cocytus. And, finally, the Lethe, the river of oblivion, where souls drink to forget their past life.Wikipedia - Lethe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethe
TartarusWikipedia - Tartarus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus is where the wicked receive their punishment, ElysiumWikipedia - Elysium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium is the utopia for the distinguished, while the Isles of the Blessed are for the exceptionally pure. The rest of the dead reside in Asphodel Meadows.Wikipedia - Asphodel Meadows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphodel_Meadows
==References==
Category:Setting
Category:Titanomachy