Afterlives

Afterlives are places that souls are taken to by a reaper after the body or place they inhabit dies. Where they go is often dictated by the beliefs of the entity that was ensouled. Should are a form of energy that retain memories and feelings from their most recent turn in the world.

Souls are energy in an odd state. It’s not like heat or electricity. It does have the capacity to do work but instead of causing motion or creating light, it does things like illicit passion and imagination in things it ensouls. This energy can be mixed and matched.

Here’s a bad metaphor: if you were to take water from a thousand different sources and put it in the jar and shake it all up and then draw some out, it’s still water. It’s new in that it’s completely unlike what all went into it, but still came from those places. Closest scientific thing is that out like plasma, ionized has with no overall electrical charge. But this reacts on emotions and thoughts in ways no one on earth can yet measure or quantify.

### Secular Afterlife

A neutral afterlife of memories and feelings of the soul. It is for a soul to reconcile whatever it needs to to move on from them and let them go before returning to the universe, and have energy to be recycled and have another go. This afterlife is reachable only the person going through it. It is in there it is not a place with any physical properties on any plane and it is there for the soul shaking itself clear of what it needs to get rid of. Sometimes this takes a long time, sometimes it does not.

### Religious Afterlives

For followers of specific faiths often they go to an afterlife specific to their belief. Some of these have a mechanisms for us all to reflect and reform if need be and return to the universe and go again however some pantheons prefer to essentially hoard souls of believers perhaps not to risk diminishing their own power. See Pantheons for specific Afterlives to their pantheons.

### Back Into Rotation

This is in reference to when a soul has shuffled off the emotional memories of its most recent life it will go back into rotation for another life.

### Unique Afterlives

#### The Between or In Between

Between is the place between the world and the afterlife. For every reaper it is different. It changes to fit the situation and the charge that the reaper is helping cross. Some times the Between doesn't show until the reaper or soul are ready to go to the afterlife. Some times it provides a place for the soul to be talked to before crossing, especially in very traumatic deaths.

#### The Eternal Playground

The Eternal Playground was originally created by Drakkar, one of the League of Reapers founders. It is an afterlife for children who are waiting for parents, or too scared to move on. Busana and Parisa, a human and dragon mated pair, started working as the guardians of the the Eternal Playground by showing them how much they cared for every creature, especially children (given to them by the PTB and Solaris). Many reapers who deal with children come to the playground, most helping out as it can get crowded from time to time.
In the Fall of Drakkar, it was revealed that Drakkar was the Erl Koenig, or the King of Elves who used the Eternal Playground as means to feast on children's souls. After the Battle of the Eternal Playground, Busana razed the afterlife to the ground to rebuild it and bring it back to it's original glory.

#### Sigrunn's Afterlife

Sigrunn created an afterlife for the souls that fall into her domain. It is mostly a half way house for souls and doesn't have a set name. There it is overlooked by three abaths, Malaysian unicorns Sahar, Adi, and Yati. Also occasionally overseen by Terrance. Sigrunn's afterlife offers therapy and rehab for souls until they are ready to move on. When they are ready Sigrunn herself sits with them and plots their fates. Be it to move to another afterlife, go back into rotation or stay at her afterlife. It is a small afterlife that looks like a little forest clearing with a creek, cabins and cottages for the souls to stay it. It is peaceful and for healing.