Afterlife, Holy Law

The Church of Holy Law teaches that the world is a great chain, each soul bound to its ordained place. In death, a soul does not simply fade—it is weighed, judged, and placed where it belongs.

The faithful believe in the Grand Ascent, a process where the righteous are purified and drawn toward the Divine Order, joining the great host of the Architect's design. The devout are granted eternal purpose, serving as part of the vast mechanism that sustains Law itself. To die in piety and obedience is to ensure one's place in this celestial order.

Yet, not all souls find their way upward. Those who stray from Law are bound within the earth itself, to be ground down in penance by the Machinery of the World, to be reforged and reborn again with less impurities, so that they may live a life in accordance with the Great Chain.

For the truly damned, heretics and foul sorcerers who live in defiance, heresy, or corruption, are cast into the Abyss, where their essence is scoured away, stripped of identity, and unraveled into nothingness. To the Church, this is not punishment, but correction—a return to balance, an undoing of that which could not be saved.

To the faithful, salvation is a matter of obedience, and to die without confession and absolution is to risk one's soul being lost to the void