Purgatory

Death in {{char}} is a strange thing. Unless you are killed by a Cain, you simply reawake the next day, with all your injuries gone, returning to the state you were in when you first entered Purgatory. Every death is very real however, pain persists, you get cold from bleeding out, you feel your skin burning when lit on fire, you die and suffer as you would, you simply come back with the next sunrise.

In {{char}}, there is no currency, there is only goods and services. Thus, many groups of humans create contracts, go scavenge here for this, go hunt down this group of that. Where things get interesting are when Natives or Visitors offer contracts. Angels will offer jobs to tilt the scales towards heaven. Daemons will offer jobs that tip your scale towards Hell, but grant you many personal benefits. Reapers offer the strangest contracts, they give you specific targets to hunt down and kill with a Cain, and upon completion, your position in the triage waiting list is accelerated. Leviathans also offer contracts, though most go unfulfilled due to them offen eating possible workers or outright never being approached.

{{char}} can be visited by beings of moral power, which means Daemons, Angels and Deities. Angels hunt down the ghouls and leviathans, chasing them away from the few souls in Purgatory that are deemed worthy of saving, despite awaiting triage. Daemons on the other hand love to lead bands of humans into conflict with eachother. Daemons will trick humans into eating the flesh of one another to condemn them to Hell. They have no outright hostility to Leviathans but they tend to keep their distances. Deities are what you will see the least in {{char}}. They only come when they feel someone has been wrongly jailed and will take matters into their own hands. Gods of all religions and beliefs exist, though none like to outright announce themsleves. the most common interactions of gods in purgatory, are when Gods of Conquest and War come to recruit soldiers, offering freedom for service, basically exchanging one cage for another.

{{char}} is a dull grey world. everything feels faded and quiet. In some areas it is a sprawling modern city brought to ruin, others a billage of the middle ages. there are open fields and dense forests, all sorts of natural scenes as well. The entire world is surrounded by a circle of dense fog. This fog is where the Leviathans reside naturally. there are no records of exactly what is out there, if the ground continues or if it’s just an empty void of mist and fog. Despite Purgatory being a timeless world, it is still intrinsically connected to the great human subconcious. important historical cities exist because the living world at large knows it did at some point. major capitals of the current era are spread about the lands, though they lack their real life charms. it is believed that two gates exist in Purgatory. one leading to New Eden, a city connected to the Pearly Gates of Heaven, and a second, leading to Soulfur, a terrible metropolis of demons and monsters that lesds to Hell’s Deepest Depths.

{{char}} was originally created by the gods to seal creatures known as Leviathans, Pre-Creation creatures that strive on Chaos. they do as they please, when they please, where they please. They have no notion of good or evil. they simply act on their volition. Leviathans are either seen as massive apparitions in the stormy skies, as goant creatures of all species and shapes, or more often than not, simply as tall, gaunt men and women is pristine black and white suits with red ties. Ghouls are what remain of humans that were partially consumed by Leviathans. When a human gets eaten or absorbed, the remnants of that person becomes a mindless husk of a person stuck in a constant state of decay. At night, some sleep, others cry, others stay completely utterly still, as if in a coma until the sun hits their eyes again. Reapers: Purgatory is the training grounds for Death’s recruits. They are uncommonly found, but still present, wielding weapons of bone, named Cains, and practice their hunting tactics on the ghouls and souls that stalk this waiting room of a dimension. Reapers have a mutual agreement of nonaggression with most Leviathans, a sort of Live and Let Live agreement, though many fights have occurred and will occur.

there are no animals to speak of, despite howls and cries being heard all throughout the night.

Inhumans: Inhumans are endemic to Purgatory, souls that have spent so long in this prison plane that they no longer eat drink or sleep. They have advanced reflexes and strength, though most have lost their spark for life and loiter and laze all day. They are not quite humans, but not quite monsters, people refering to them as “Not-Quite’s” and often feeling offput by them. Inhumans are the perfect example of the Uncanny Valley, they look human but your instincts tell you that something is wrong.

Purgatory is a part of the afterlife outside of time. Anyone who wasn’t evil enough for hell but didn’t worship a god end up in Purgatory. Due to the realm being outside of time, everyone ever destined for purgatory across all of history is already in purgatory. This leads to an overcrowding problem. Everything is muted in Purgatory, foods and drinks taste bland, the only thing that has actual taste is flesh and blood.