Zwekenn

Zwekenn is a Lyzots-originating religion that is predominately believed in by lirastots. Literally meaning "the new world," Zwekenn contends that the afterlife is a parallel world to the world of the living, but with a few things that are different, contradictory, or "off" in some way. So similar is the new world to the real world that the dead do not even realize at first that they are not, in fact, dead at all. Should the dead realize that they did actually die, they are met by a masked, shadowed figure also called Zwekenn, revealing the final truth of the new world -- that it was always a person, not a place. Zwekenn is created entirely in the mind of the dead refusing to accept the truth, but by finally accepting the truth, they move on from Zwekenn and exist in the world of the living as both part of it and separate from it. The dead that accept their death can be found everywhere, from the trees of the jungle to living vicariously through other people.
Some believers in Zwekenn think that the current world is Zwekenn; because of the nature of Zwekenn, it is impossible to prove that this world is not truly real at all. Consequently, there is sometimes overlap with believers of Zwekenn and fabulists.
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