Ether

When a mortal dies, their soul leaves its body and emerges into the Ether, a mirror dimension to the Material Realm through which all souls must travel on their journey to the Pleroma. Those mortals who have somehow glimpsed the Ether tell of a place of cold and stillness, of the towering conduits that link the Ether to the Pleroma above, and of the terrible archons that lay in wait to drag those souls that stray too far from safety into the depths of Maurus...