Sakaratul, The Death Realm
Sakaratul is the afterlife realm created by Aerchabad'Zael the great Lich of unlife. Whether he created it on purpose to begin claiming souls or if he created by accident after a plot was foiled is known only to the gods.
Geography
Sakaratul is a mist realm existing outside of the material plane but simultaneously borrowing landscape from planet. Whether this is a magical copy on an immense scale or an actual plane itself is unknown even to Aerchabad'Zael. There are points in Tanaheim that touch the mists of Sakaratul allowing access to it's lands though that is a one way trip. Once transported through the mists the person or persons are still corporeal and free to act normally. If they perish in the realm their souls will be trapped there for all time despite their god and that god's afterlife.
The realm itself is a beautiful forested land with farms, towns, and creatures of all types living there. A ribbon of thick mists cuts through the landscape ever shifting and creating a border around it. The mists prevent escape from the realm and constantly change the borders and interior. The sky is ever night with three moons moving across it in different patterns. The two moons of Tanaheim and a new moon which represents Aerchabad'Zael. The temperature stays at a cool 65 and almost never wavers. There are a few permanent towns that are never consumed by the mists and the great castle of Thulsa Doom which is the home of Aerchabad'Zael himself.
The realm itself is a beautiful forested land with farms, towns, and creatures of all types living there. A ribbon of thick mists cuts through the landscape ever shifting and creating a border around it. The mists prevent escape from the realm and constantly change the borders and interior. The sky is ever night with three moons moving across it in different patterns. The two moons of Tanaheim and a new moon which represents Aerchabad'Zael. The temperature stays at a cool 65 and almost never wavers. There are a few permanent towns that are never consumed by the mists and the great castle of Thulsa Doom which is the home of Aerchabad'Zael himself.
Ecosystem
Dangers
Roaming through the lands at all times are the fearsome Fiend Rangers and their Howlers. The Rangers patrol the forests and hunt down any living that venture into the realm whether on purpose or by accident. With no new targets they hunt the trapped souls who forever wander the land, the manner of their death ever present on their forms. Dark Sirens also haunt the forests a devilish combination of siren and Succubus. Packs of zombies also wander the realm usually numbering in the hundreds at a time, any poor adventurers who are beset by one of these packs will need to flee or be overwhelmed.
Roaming through the lands at all times are the fearsome Fiend Rangers and their Howlers. The Rangers patrol the forests and hunt down any living that venture into the realm whether on purpose or by accident. With no new targets they hunt the trapped souls who forever wander the land, the manner of their death ever present on their forms. Dark Sirens also haunt the forests a devilish combination of siren and Succubus. Packs of zombies also wander the realm usually numbering in the hundreds at a time, any poor adventurers who are beset by one of these packs will need to flee or be overwhelmed.
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