Death (Character)

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Death is shown to not be completely infallible however. Not only did he struggle to keep the Borrowers under control when the organization was still active, but it is revealed within Rapture that when he was alive at the start of time, he did have a son whom he never saw come back to AfterLife, and he assumed the child never died. That son went on to become an unlicensed surrogate to Death in the Mortal Realm, creating the mantle of *The Rider of Death*, the First Horseman of the Apocalypse.

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## The Void

The Void is the place where all of AfterLife stemmed from, at the behest of **Death**. The Void existed, empty, since before the dawn of time, beyond the gaze of the Mortal Realm. Then, when the first mortal man (after the birth of civilization, when we can officially consider them "Human") died, he found himself alone in the Void. A place of nothing but endless darkness and nothingness, with the exception of the hundreds of thousands of bright 'stars' above far above him which seemed to stretch on forever. Soon after, another mortal soul died, and found themselves in the Void, alone, until the first man to die found him. Feeling sympathy for the helplessness and isolation, he decides that his mission is to find and Sheppard every soul who dies and makes their way into this place. This man takes up the title of **Death**.

After this, more and more people began dying and ending up in the Void, and Death would find them, and allow them to join his roving collection of passed souls. But as civilizations grew, wars did too, and people who had been fighting in life, began fighting in death as well, causing uproarious chaos, which frustrated Death. Not only frustrated, **Death** began to see these souls with their toxic ideologies, and began resenting the path that mankind had started moving on since he left.

Deciding that enough was finally enough, **Death** took the power and experience he had gained from being in this Void for so long, he tore it into sections, and created AfterLife as we know it. He stated that he created two levels from the Void, which he called Heaven and Hell, and he would separate these dead mortal souls by what he deemed as 'pure' and 'corrupt', and they would be sent to their respective domain. The once-all-mighty conqueror, Lucifer Morningstar, lashed out and demanded that he be placed as the ruler of Heaven, as it seemed to be above all things. For this indiscretion, **Death** cursed him, transforming his soul into a beastly visage, before banishing him to Hell as its ruler. For the ruler of Heaven, he picked a humble homeless man whom gave what little he had to help others, and allowed him to ascend.

After this, **Death** sent all of the souls he had found from his centuries of roaming the Void to either Heaven or Hell, based purely on his own personal standard of 'justness'. Once all of his collective mortal souls were gone, **Death** realized that once again, he was alone, left to roam again, collecting what souls he could find to bring them to their destined domain. Instead, after seeing just how much his power had grown, **Death** created an alternative: from the scraps of wispy darkness that make up the Void, he carved nothingness into 'life', making beings without souls, things that existed outside of the definition for both 'life' and 'death'. **Death** created the Reapers. Beings that travel from the Void, AfterLife, and even the Mortal Realm eventually, gathering all of these passed souls upon their demise.

Once his duties were complete, from the edge of Heaven and Hell, he carved away an office, where he would spend the rest of his time, doing his best to maintain order from AfterLife and the Void.

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