Vjormoz

**Vjormoz**, **Dankus Tekan**, **Munaz**, or **Nawo** or **Navo**, is the Vozonid equivalent of Hell. It is a realm of absolute Chaos.

## Characteristics

Vjormoz is commonly depicted as an unstable realm of floating, melting islands that hover over a colouful void. Each island seems alive, with mouths, eyes, and body parts oozing everywhere as they devour each other and anyone unfortunate enough to approach them.

It is located below the multiverse. In Vozonid religion, it is supposedly located below the underbelly of the Realm of the Ancestors, a distant nightmare visible from the top of its darkened sky.

Illujankas and other demons supposedly live there.

### The Land of Zaechu

Zaechu, later known as Zjasal, is one of the regions of Vjormoz, a volcanic wasteland where sins across history and time gather as shadows on islands over lava rivers. Each shadow becomes into a demon or a Terran, a human-like being filled with evil. In Sarmelonid times, Zaechu was either the northern section of Vjormoz, or separated from Vjormoz by a great black chasm that contains savage monsters and warring demonic armies.

As Bujan was influenced by Sarmelonid classics, "Zaechu" became a slang term towards any of the homeworlds where the Terran colonisers came from. Terrans were also called "zaechunik" or "zaechunets", comparing them to demons from Hell.

### The Abyss of Nawo

While "Nawo" was a synonym of Vjormoz, in Sarmelonid times, Nawo was south of Vjormoz, as a black sea of shadows.

Nawo is supposedly the domain of cannibals and sadists, for desecrating the sanctity of the body.

### Blood Soup Sea

The domain of cannibals, people who commit human sacrifices, and all animals who kill and eat whelps of the same species, especially their own offspring.

While most animals in Vozonid belief do not have a soul, Vozonids believe that if an animal commits such a crime, it will be given a soul to punish it for killing and eating its own young. Once it dies, it is thrown into the Blood Soup Sea to be eaten by monsters, gruesomely and painfully as it did in life.

Offspring directly sired or born by the animal that ate babies also go to the Blood Sea after they die. One notable case was a legend of a male stray cat who was seen eating dozens of kittens, to induce female cats to breed with him. After he died, he and some of his kittens were brought to Zoval, who ordered an explanation of their actions. Their only answer was that "they needed to live", repeatedly. Still, the God of Death was disgusted by such a weak excuse, that he ordered the souls of the cat and his offspring to be thrown into Hell.

## Trivia

* Vjormoz's name means "torment", and Navo/Nawo means "abyss".
	+ "Dankus Tekan" means "Realm of Darkness", and "Munaz" means "Chaos".
* "Vjormoz" is also a Vozonid profanity that means "to hell with something" or "go to hell". Another similar curse-word is "goi", which means "to condemn someone to hell" -- for that reason it is a curse so strong and forbidden, that only very angry and reckless people use that word.
* Vjormoz may be inspired by the Warp from Warhammer 40,000.
* Vozonids believe that animals can also be sentenced to Hell for certain offenses, like killing their own young.
* It is considered offensive in Vozonid culture to say "many new years" or wish "Happy New Years" in plural form, for it was derived from a custom cursing at prisoners at execution grounds. The "new years" refer to how many years the criminal's soul would spend in Hell, being tortured for their crimes.
* Some Vozonids believe that sinners who complete their sentences in Vjormoz were thrown into the black sea of Dulgammaz to be disintegrated; others claim that they were sentenced to become ghosts, with the humiliating possibility of reincarnation and perhaps redemption.

## See also

* Demons
* The Void
* Imbar, its anti-thesis and arch-enemy.