The obiti

The obiti, also sometimes referred to as the dead by pagans, are the spirits that result from the death of earthlings, thus being bodiless earthling souls. Since, in the event of the apocalypse, all earthlings will be resurrected with their bodies to never again lose them, all spirits will eventually become proper earthlings again. There are three main types of obiti:

## Ghosts

Ghosts are the obiti that were snatched from the sickle of a soul reaper by some sort of disturbance. They are the only obiti whose essence is outside of the Underworld and Skyworld.

### Spooks

Ghosts who were kidnapped and chained to magical objects by wizards.

### Poltergeists

Ghosts who were freed from the sickle after traveling a large distance from a certain place or thing of traumatic importance to them. This results in them trying to reach that thing but failing, ending up lost and coagulating with other poltergeists into a spiritual blob of pain and remorse.

### Haunters

Ghosts who were freed from the sickle before traveling a large distance from a certain place or thing of traumatic importance to them. This results in them finding that thing and residing around it.

### Phantoms

Ghosts who have no particularly traumatic emotional attachment to anything, walking freely and somewhat consciously without much anguish. Most phantoms with some certainty that they will be saved end up searching for help, as certain wizards and priests can actually help them ascend by calling soul reapers to their occasion. Others, who don't think they will be saved, try to hide from exorcists.

## Demons

Demons are the obiti who were brought to end of the soul reaper's track: the gates of Hell. The only way they can actually reach this place is by not being saved by any henad or God. There, their souls are deposited and transported through the Acheron by the henad Charon. As the ferry trip is about to end, the souls, here still known as ghosts, are dropped into the Acheron, losing their memories of their lives and officially turning into demons. The only shore they can then access is Gray Hell, the external circle of Hell.

### The grays

The grays are the newly arrived demons from Gray Hell. They have no affectionate or personal memory of their lives and have very little contact with demonic torture when compared to the other types of demons.

### The purging

The purging, along with the patient, the elysiads and the wicked, are part of larger type of demon: the reds. Contrary to the grays, the reds, knowing that there is an exit from Hell through its ninth circle, Cocytus, the home of Lucifer and his cage, try to reach such an exit for one reason or another, going through the other torturous circles of Hell. The name comes from the fact that, upon leaving Limbo, the demons gain a distorted red appearance and their memories return, so that they can be used to torture them. The purging are those reds who have forever repented from their mortal sins and can thus eventually enter the Kingdom Heaven whenever they finally manage to clean themselves from their venial, minor sins.

### The patient

The patient are the purging who managed to cross all circles of Hell and eventually exit it for the Gardens of Elysium after they repented from absolutely all of their sins except the original one. Their name comes from the fact that they patiently waited for their opportunity to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Most hebrew fathers and generally most strongly virtuous people from before the coming of Jesus to the Underworld after his death were part of the patient, as they had cleaned themselves to enter God's domain but were not yet baptized to get rid of the original sin. Once Christ came to the gardens, he told them the good news personally and thus proceeded to baptize them with the local waters, entering the Kingdom with them. Since then, every baptized purging who went through his full purification will be able to enter the Kingdom automatically, while the unbaptized will be brought in by having being baptized by an angel in Elysium.

### The elysiads

Some reds can actually be freed from their purification or damnation process in Hell by angels before it ends (or despite the fact it will never end), being thus allowed to reach the Gardens of Elysium sooner than intended. While they may be baptized, these are still, technically, sinful demons, going through purgatory or eternal damnation more slowly and personally. While those demons have not yet left the gardens, they are denominated elysiads.

### The undead

Whenever an elysiad drinks the ambrosia of a henad and thus, through it, recovers his physical body in the facet he died in, this elysiad is now denominated an undead. That said, the undead aren't technically demons, but a type of immortal. Immortals are those non-deities who have drank the ambrosia of a henad and now share in their immortality. The only way to kill an immortal is to kill the henad that he drank his ambrosia from, so the same is true for the undead. Since all henads will eventually be killed in the apocalypse, some of the purging among the undead will have completed their purification by then, thus rising to the Kingdom of Heaven as a result; others will not, and will thus need to complete it in Hell; finally, those wicked among them will return to Hell and stay there until the general resurrection of all creatures, after which they will return to Hell with their resurrected bodies.

### The wicked

The wicked are those reds who will never repent from their mortal sins and are thus irredeemable, being destined to suffer in Hell forever.

### The Four Horsemen

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse, also known as the Knights of the Long Night, are wicked with great power who were previously four humans and now serve Lucifer in Hell, wherein they are imprisoned with their master. They were responsible for first freeing Lucifer after his death and being killed along with him during his second death. The Four Horsemen are each individually known as Conquest, War, Famine and Death.

### The sorrowed

The sorrowed will be the wicked after their bodies are resurrected. They are, thus, not technically spirits. Since all parts of the Universe will be divided between the Lake of Fire (Tartarus after being ravaged by Lucifer) and the extended Kingdom of Heaven, which will occupy everything else, all of those who were once earthlings will by then be either among the sorrowed or the assumed.

## Ascended

The ascended are those spirits who were saved from going to the Underworld or the Underworld itself by an angel working under the orders of a henad or God.

### The fortunate

The ascended are those spirits who were saved from going to the Underworld or the Underworld itself by an angel working under the orders of a henad. They are either saved before becoming demons, thus being the most fortunate, or as demons in torture, thus becoming the least fortunate. Some fortunate are irredeemable and will thus never enter the Kingdom of Heaven, while other are under an ongoing and slow purification process, similar to that of elysiads and the undead. The fortunate generally inhabit pagan heavens in Skyworld, but those saved by Ymir and the jotun henads generally go to Ginnungagap, while those saved by henads that inhabit Hades, the region of the Underworld in which Elysium and some other areas are all located in, or Avernus, another region in the Underworld, generally inhabit these areas too. Some of the fortunate are granted the gift of reincarnation from their patron henads, through which they are then allowed to come back into their original world as another person. That said, while most pagan religions have some conception of reincarnation, it is only common practice in Hinduism and Buddhism. The heretical sect known as spiritism also takes advantage of it.

### The blessed

The blessed are those who managed to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. They are all baptized and free from all sins through the persevering grace of the Holy Spirit.

### The saints

The saints are those who managed to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as blessed before becoming demons or part of the fortunate.

### The assumed

The assumed are those saints or blessed who entered the Kingdom of Heaven with their resurrected bodies. This includes only Jesus (insofar as he is human), Mary, his mother, and Lazarus, but will eventually come to include every single blessed once their bodies are resurrected. Since they have bodies, they are not technically spirits.