Spirit Realm

Onvion, the most well-studied of the afterlives

***“**Is this the afterlife? No. Just one among many.**”***
— Ihyll

**The** **Spirit Realm** is a realm created and maintained by the Goddess of Death, Ihyll. All mortals must die, and all will end up in the Spirit Realm sooner or later. The Spirit Realm is no unified entity, as it has countless numbers of subrealms unknown to all but the Goddess herself. However, over the course of centuries, the mortal races of Enselonde have managed to identify and document some of the more common areas within the realm, which grants a basic understanding of what happens inside the land ruled by Ihyll.

### History

The history of the Spirit Realm is all but completely unknown. The realm itself was most likely created around the time of Ihyll's first appearance during the Age of Freeholds. However, nothing else would become common knowledge for thousands of years to come, as the nature of the Spirit Realm remained secretive. Lyxis the Blind would end up curious about the Spirit Realm and devoted much time and energy to trying to find a way in shortly after the Divine War. These efforts would ultimately fail, and Lyxis would drop the interest in time.

The first real look at the Spirit Realm came in 146 AW after Ihyll's Blades assassinated Mikhail Ivolanov, a priest and doctor of the Kymelian Order who had been personally working with Kymelia, the Goddess of Health, to cure the Sixth Plague of Ihyll. Kymelia was outraged and began a bitter conflict against Ihyll known as the War of Life and Death. She infiltrated the Spirit Realm, opening a massive rift between itself and Enselonde that would end up becoming the Kymelian Breach. The Breach, besides releasing tens of thousands of Phantoms into the world of the living, gave a first look at the Spirit Realm. Yet, what was found raised more questions than answers.

Endless fog, places of pure misery, yet also paradises. Complete copies of Enselonde and strange foreign realms. A seemingly endless amount of afterlives all clumped together, each watched over by a Divine Offspring of Ihyll. Unsurprisingly, Ihyll provided no answers, and it was left up to mortals to explore and document the Spirit Realm. Some snuck in through the Breach as it moved around seemingly at random. However, many were killed immediately and most findings proved to be mere speculation. However, a decent enough picture has been established in the years since 146 AW.

## Subrealms

The number of subrealms inside the Spirit Realm is unknown, yet estimates put it at around five to ten billion at the least and an infinite number at most. The Spirit Realm is not unchanging, it is modified for each and every being that enters it, which causes the inflated number. However, they do have similarities. These similarities allow us to, at the very least, group them together into named subrealms. The most significant of these are as follows.

### Onvion

*Main Article: Onvion*

Most people who refer to the Spirit Realm refer to Onvion. It is Ihyll's personal domain, a bleak and barren landscape covered by a seemingly endless fog. There seems to be no limit to how far one can travel inside Onvion. It is filled with the souls of those mortals that couldn't let go, those who still had doubts and regrets. They cling onto their ended lives in the form of Phantoms, shadowy beings that vaguely retain the same form they had in life. However, Phantoms are barely sentient and most have lost their memories of life completely. They wander around aimlessly in Onvion and either lack the ability or willpower to communicate with one another.

Onvion is a realm that seems all but abandoned. However, the truth is that it was never meant to be a prosperous realm. Onvion, to an extent, serves as a temporary afterlife. Souls wander around aimlessly until they finally let go, and only then can they move on to a different more fleshed-out realm. Onvion is the "waiting room" of the Spirit Realm.

### Raxyon

*Main Article: Raxyon*

Raxyon is best described as a gentle lie. It is not one realm but billions of tiny realms clumped together. Each soul that ends up in Raxyon gets his own copy of Enselonde modified to be perfect for that soul. Inside their private realm, they gain a set of false memories and become whoever they most desired to be in life. Even the lowliest of peasants can be kings or Divines inside their realms, as they pose no danger to the Spirit Realm as a whole.

Once their realm has been fully fleshed out, souls will then relive their ideal life over and over again, forgetting their experiences from the time before upon restarting. Raxyon is Ihyll's form of paradise, not in her own image, but in the image of its inhabitants. This also makes the realm the most difficult to observe, as no two realms inside of Raxyon are the same.

### Ficlia

*Main Article: Ficlia*

Some souls are beyond redeeming and do not deserve their own realm inside of Raxyon. These mortals will suffer the consequences of their actions. Ficlia, also known as the Void, is an extremely inhospitable place, an area of pure darkness where not even the fog goes. The souls trapped inside are granted their memories of their mortal life in full. They exist in Ficlia, yet cannot do anything. They will be surrounded by darkness and absolute silence at all times, and they will never meet another soul. And yet, they will be conscious the whole time, reflecting on the deeds that led them there, slowly driving themselves mad for all eternity.

### The Kymelian Breach

*Main Article: The Kymelian Breach*

The Kymelian Breach is the least graspable part of the Spirit Realm as it changes form and location constantly. Caused by the War of Life and Death between Ihyll and Kymelia in 146 AW, the Breach is a way out for wandering souls. However, there is only one Breach, and the Spirit Realm is endless. This makes finding the Breach nearly impossible. Yet, for those lucky few, they can step through and gain a new body and a new life in Enselonde.

The Breach has shrunken significantly since its creation, as Ihyll and her Divine Offspring have tried to root it out relentlessly. Furthermore, the combined clash between life and death has made the Breach and its surrounding area extremely unstable and strange, leading to some souls disappearing outright instead of being brought back to life.