voice; un: mogget

[themogget]

Name: Mogget
Date: May 8th
Format: Voice

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How is death viewed in the world you come from?

[Now there's a question. Mogget pauses a moment before he continues, just to let it sink in.]

In the Old Kingdom, when one dies, their soul moves over into a different realm. There they traverse nine gates along a river until finally passing on. I understand that this isn't the norm outside of my home world.

[Not close to it, in fact.]

So, indulge me, if you would.

Comments

[bravers]

Why d'you wanna know?

It's kind of a weird question.

[themogget]

What do you believe happens when you die, or do you know it to be a fact? I thought it a very simple question.

[bravers]

It's simple, yeah. But it's kind of weird to ask about that kind of thing.

[lightblooming]

Is there are particular reason why you want to know?

[themogget]

Is curiosity not enough of a reason?

text; un: stitches

[deadtective]

Depends on how you die. Obviously.

["obviously"]

[themogget]

Elaborate.

un: whosasking

[sneakofhand]

Depends what god you follow. I've heard a lot of pretty stories about other planes and all that, but I never thought much about what happens when you die besides knowing I wasn't gonna live long. Least not til lately.

[themogget]

I would think that knowledge of a shortened lifespan would put the idea of death more to the front of someone's mind. Or was it that you preferred not to think about it.

un: Caster | text

[futhark]

It varies from time, place, and person. My people had an idea how that worked for them, but then it turns out, sometimes you get to be an exception.

Which of the stories sounds better?

[themogget]

Which one do you believe?

voice; u/n l.yagami

[worldcleansing]

Is that the belief held by everybody in your world? In my world, the belief depends on the culture. Some people believe we go to a better or worse place, depending on our actions. Some people believe we're reborn. Some believe there's nothing after death. Is there some proof that makes the whole world believe the same thing?

[themogget]

What I said is a fact, not a belief. It isn't a fact known by everyone, or believed by everyone, but that doesn't make it less of one.

[He lets a moment of silence hang.]

There is proof, if you go looking for it. Not something I would usually recommend.

un: ardbert | voice

[notbert]

The usual cycle of any living creature on reaching its journey's end is the return of their aether to its source.

As with anything there are exceptions, however! A great will, some driving desire or lingering attachment may conspire to trap or cause the aether to remain in the mortal plane.

[He sounds good natured and pleasant. Perhaps in a good mood?]

[themogget]

Interesting. Then not so dissimilar.

[This is the closest to what he knows that he has heard so far, so he settles himself for a discussion.]

Some Dead with a particular determination to cling to life, or those who were powerful in life may find their way out of Death given time, or resist entering it. Some may be drawn out by others. Neither things are welcome. The Dead belong in only one place.

text; un - nya

[ranyaulf]

Huh.

Sounds pleasant. Gates and a river into a different realm? Another adventure, just waiting ahead?

Hm...

[themogget]

Perhaps. No one has returned from beyond the final gate to confirm what exists after it.

voice;

[unsundered]

A rather lengthy journey for a tired soul to go on, don't you think? Nine whole gates to pass through before passing on. Don't tell me there's some ordeal or judgement attached to each one, or some nonsense complication like that.

But what happens at the end, after they've traversed all of this? That last step sounds the most crucial, and yet it's the one missing.

[Completely ignoring that he hasn't answered the question himself, his tone is low and idle.]

[themogget]

I would have stated it if there was.

[So, no. No tasks, no trials. Unless you really don't want to be there, in which case the trial might be getting back out.]

And the end is peace. Nothing more or less than that.

Voice

[lotus_of_rage]

A morbid topic.

However, we believe there is an afterlife. When a person dies, family will burn money for them to accompany them in the afterlife. Eventually, an account of their life will be taken. Based on the deeds that they have performed in their life, they will reborn. Doing good deeds and having luck on your side will give you a better life the next time. Performing bad deeds, you may be reborn as a toad.

[themogget]

[This one amuses him, if only for the idea of someone being reborn as a toad.]

And when someone has lived the best life possible, what then? Is this a process of infinite reincarnation?

Voice; un: kor

[spirialink]

I...

[There's a pause, as Kor mulls over that answer. It's not something he'd ever given much thought to the intricacies of, even though he's lost his fair share of loved ones in his life.]

...Dunno, really. I think the church teaches that our Spirias join with the winged whale in the sky when we die, or something like that. But that's not what I believe.

[themogget]

What do you believe?

[It is very curious to Mogget - this concept of belief without proof. Where he is from, Death is what it is and everyone knows it.]

text; un: ajc

[sparkofgoodness]

Gates on a river? They going through the gates or just.... passing the gates, mysteriously, and nobody ever opens them?

[ Nosy. ]

[themogget]

Think of them more as gateWAYS than actual gates. They don't need to be opened, you just move through.