Rise of Albion
THE STORM WILL COME
Every death is important and significant, every passing an impact on the balance of the world, yet not every human soul is eternally tethered to the Earth. There is of course a heaven and a hell, but not in the religious sense of the world. It is to separate the spirits of the departed depending on what level of justice they deserved after the short span of existence ended in the world. The ultimate judgement, the final closure. And yet, not all souls are able to move on.
For some reason, after a person's death, their spirit can become eternally bound and connected to the Earth. There is no chance for moving on, no chance for judgement and no chance to find their closure. The rest of human existence is made their sentence, and even then it might carry on further. Our world, the living realm, calls them 'ghosts'.
They inhabit what is known as the Shadow Realm, but it is really more so an alteration of our world. Life is black and white, filled with shadows and entirely emotionless. They cannot feel the heat of the sun, the wind brushing against their skin, the pain of a stubbed toe. A spirit can only watch the world of the living pass by, unable to communicate or signal to tell people that they are still there, still watching, but now, dead.
However, something is changing within the world. People are starting to be able to see the spirits, and they can communicate with them too. To go so far as to actually be able to talk to them. Not everyone has this extra-ordinary gift, but it is more than enough to create an enormous stirring amongst the ghosts. After countless millenia of not being able to be seen or heard, suddenly a select few around the world are able to possess this ability. The paranormal and the supernatural, can finally be proved as real.
But why is it happening now?
The normal human generation can't sense it at all. The seers have some feeling that something isn't quite right with the world. The spirits however, they know that something is coming. Something evil and dangerous, which will tip the balance of every realm, from that of the living, the shadows, and even into the lands of the judged. No one knows what it is, but it's coming. And no one and no where will be safe from its wrath.
The maps section further explains the abilities and roles of the humans, seers and spirits/ghosts, while also providing information about their worlds.
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For some reason, after a person's death, their spirit can become eternally bound and connected to the Earth. There is no chance for moving on, no chance for judgement and no chance to find their closure. The rest of human existence is made their sentence, and even then it might carry on further. Our world, the living realm, calls them 'ghosts'.
They inhabit what is known as the Shadow Realm, but it is really more so an alteration of our world. Life is black and white, filled with shadows and entirely emotionless. They cannot feel the heat of the sun, the wind brushing against their skin, the pain of a stubbed toe. A spirit can only watch the world of the living pass by, unable to communicate or signal to tell people that they are still there, still watching, but now, dead.
However, something is changing within the world. People are starting to be able to see the spirits, and they can communicate with them too. To go so far as to actually be able to talk to them. Not everyone has this extra-ordinary gift, but it is more than enough to create an enormous stirring amongst the ghosts. After countless millenia of not being able to be seen or heard, suddenly a select few around the world are able to possess this ability. The paranormal and the supernatural, can finally be proved as real.
But why is it happening now?
The normal human generation can't sense it at all. The seers have some feeling that something isn't quite right with the world. The spirits however, they know that something is coming. Something evil and dangerous, which will tip the balance of every realm, from that of the living, the shadows, and even into the lands of the judged. No one knows what it is, but it's coming. And no one and no where will be safe from its wrath.
The maps section further explains the abilities and roles of the humans, seers and spirits/ghosts, while also providing information about their worlds.
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Humans are the ignorant beings who have yet to hold any contact with the dead, inhabiting the realms of the living. They can hold no sense of the supernatural and are the least affected by their attempts to connect. These fragile beings are also the biggest non-believers of any existence of ghosts, spirits and seers. They make up almost all of the world's population. Save for the seers.
They traverse through every day life believing in their own religious, living their short, meaningless lives, interacting with each other as though nothing in the world mattered other than their own personal "problems". They can have no possibly sense of what is coming for them.
Ghosts. Spirits. The Unrest Dead.
The tormented souls of generations past who met their untimely deaths through either accident, murder, or some other supernatural cause. The soul is tethered to the Earth, unable to move on, unable to be forgotten. Sentenced to walk the Earth for the rest of eternity, a ghost cannot be seen in the eyes of the living realms, and even their ability to slightly influence objects takes great power to master and control. Invisible, silent and yet they have the power to see and hear everything they wish. Times are changing though, suddenly selected people from the living can see a part of these spirits, and they have the ability to communicate.
A spirit is half transparent, and the injuries of their past life which ultimately led to their death are still evident on their being. The world is darker for a ghost, the sun is pale and weak and the connection between nature and the otherworldly is stronger that ever before. They are trapped in the shadow lands, a mimic of Earth yet the true supernatural horrors of the in-between are trapped there as well. Although they cannot move on, they have the ability to see into the afterlife almost as well as they can see the currently living. However, something holds each spirit back from completely relating themselves to the living. A fear. An ultimate fear which stems from something that even they can't guess at. It is something ultimate powerful and being caught on the wrong side, talking with the humans, could cause a fate for the spirits even worse than the most painful death.
Each spirit can sense that something is coming, but even with all of their power and experience, they can't hope to try and understand what it is. Or to try and stop it.
Seers are the truest gift of the living realms. Mere mortal humans blessed with the power to be able to see into the realm between life and what comes after. The shadow lands. They have magical properties in their own rights. Their ability to communicate with the dead has only arisen recently. No seer has been blessed with the gift since birth. It has come about as the world tries to prepare its children for the biggest battle that has yet to come for it.
Seers have a small sense of understanding what is to come. It is not nearly as powerful as a spirit, yet ever since their gift has been bestowed upon them, they belief that something is not right with the world. That there is something out of place and it is their responsibility to change and fix it. They are the only ones who could possibly have the power to stop the coming force of darkness.
The sight is given to them on the day that the spirit world first notices it. Although the spirits are able to sense it straight away, it begins with the seers as a kind of feeling. It means nothing to their innately human minds and emotions. It is only until later in the day that a haunting ghost will begin to appear before them. At first it would be assumed that the spirit is nothing more than a regular person before the seer is able to witness the ghost become slowly half-transparent and then witness his/her paranormal abilities. A strange shock for the spirit too, but yet they are completely less willing to interact in light of the new situation.
Seers have no paranormal abilities of their own, just being able to see spirits and ghosts and to interact with them. The shadow lands are a strange place though, and should the right people come searching, the heroes of the realms would need some forms of protection, apart from the spirits brave enough to help them.
Our world, inhabited by the living, humans and seers alike.
The realm of the dead, spirits and ghosts whose souls are bound to the Earth.
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