Soul Stream

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Far beyond the reaches of the mortal world lies the end of all things- all life which bears the miracle of a mind, and the essence that enables it. The soul of mortal beings go here - that which breathes truer existence into those that roam the material planes. The Soul Stream… is where the dark masquerades as the light, and the darker swallows what light there is; a gloaming, gloomy place in which either all dead pass through, and some even remain.

There lies no true origin to Ebrietæs, the land of the lost and the wayward, for no Immortal forged by the higher powers had been found responsible for it. Only the ancient one, the Aengul Aerial, had sought out Ebrietæs for the purpose of controlling it, to assure it does not herald the souls without a master. Thus she claimed it as her realm—but as a lord is threatened by the tumultuous rebels against him, she struggles through the passing of time with that which may seek to usurp her in order to maintain order while shepherding the souls of the passed down their destined paths. That which she shepherds them to is the Relative Center; a nigh-vortex of shimmers and shadows which acts as the one path of many guided souls in Ebrietæs, reading to the very core what their spiritual essences truly hold in order to send them to where they are destined.

In Ebrietæs, the land is not what it is; it is a roiling, disturbed place which is tied between a limbo of corporeal and incorporeal makeup. Therefore, both products of these aspects exist here, and in dire form: the spectral souls of the damned walk on a plane of lifeless, tangible false-earth. The realm is dead and dull, for there lies no other purpose to the soul stream than to guide souls—thus, Ebrietæs reflects upon itself what it guides. The remnants of death, and the embodiment of desolation and loss.

When Aerial, Aengul of Souls, came to the Soul Stream with the intention to impose proper use upon it, she configured it to act as the one path of all forms of souls, yet one that splits infinitely once they reach the Relative Center. The Relative Center acts as this fork in the road, and ultimately determines which way upon the fork that every soul shall follow. It is a system that reads the souls themselves, taking into account every aspect and essence within the migrating mortal spirit. Under this logic, alignment to Aengudaemonica is heavily influential—those that align with Tahariae as Clerics are taken through the Relative Center to rest at his side in his realm of envisioned purity. Those that align with the Aspects as Druids are taken through the Relative Center to forever roam the endless forestry ever-coveted by the nature-reigning powers of the Three. The lesser souls of beasts are even guided into the realms of the Immortals—mostly that of the Aspects, whose naturalist lands embody the perfect environment for all creatures of minor mortality to roam.

However, there does lie a conflict with the dead realm of Ebrietæs, for an old age ago there transpired a feud between the clandestine Daemon Apohet, the Immortal of Ambition and Faith, and Aerial herself. Apohet, seeking to forge a plane greater than primeval Ebrietæs shaped the Spiritual Realms, and settled them between the infinitely distant corporeal mortal realms and the heavenly body of the soul stream. This caused a disruption, for the natural path of souls to the heavens was distracted by the allure of the Spiritual Realms and the alternative afterlife it offered. Thus, a fraction of Aerial’s reign was stolen, for the eternal soul stream did not stand as the sole guide of the dead as she sought to keep it.

Though Ebrietæs cannot be defined as entirely controlled by Aerial, nor can she stand as the one responsible for it’s old-age origin (something more akin to the antediluvian works of the Creator), she has come to exert some degree over jurisdiction over the land of desolation. This is mostly on the configuration of the Relative Center—before, it was absent and narrow-pathed, and without a system that guided souls to where they were truly destined. But under her merciful reign the Relative Center became a means to ultimate enlightenment for most fallen souls, guiding them to the heavenly realms where their Aengudaemonic alignments would have them bound to. However… as Aerial had taken control of the Relative Center, she had gained the means to determine who had the right to pass through it.

Her doctrine is a bitter one, scornful of the dark pasts of the mortal worlds, and specifically the evil that had been hosted within it. Her old war with Iblees on the old land of Aegis stands as a prime example; the extensive conflict had warped her impressions of mortal life, and therefore her hatred for embodiments of evil had been applied to the power of the Relative Center, condemning the souls of the dead whom, in life (or unlife) existed either previously or continuously as dark figures or malignant entities before the passing of their soul to the soul stream. Those that are denied the afterlife of the incorporeal realms beyond are condemned, cursed to roam the blasted lands of Ebrietæs as wretched spirits, warped by the angst of Aerial’s rejection and the shadows that clung to their souls and therefore prevented them from passing into the Relative Center.

But Ebrietæs is tumultuous place, both corporeal and incorporeal and both orderly and disorderly. Some of these darkened souls whom roam the plane strive there—at home amid the gloom of the realm of the dead, and even going so far as to gain higher status among the other condemned spirits so they may plot against their Aengulic master and, in the end, usurp her of her uncertain position. Others struggle in Ebrietæs; some likely defined as warped or corrupted by the Aengul based on unfair premises, and others simply hateful of their condemnation and tormented, bleak afterlife, eager to escape.

It is why Aerial remains present to shepherd and guide souls through the path of the stream, so that her forsaken prisoners may not bring harm to those who could stray without watch. But her rule is uncertain, for Ebrietæs is tumultuous; and no one lord may control it forever.

Various Synopses

• Ebrietæs may be used as a place for special events involving the Soul Stream and traveling there by whatever means are deemed reasonable under the premise of said events.

• Ebrietæs acts as the canon for the Soul Stream, and under this canon is defined as Aerial’s one realm and the explanation as to how certain souls go to certain afterlives. Alterations or additions to Ebrietæs may be made to give Aerial a more “fitting” domain (a plane of death and desolation may not be fitting for her - but heavenly nonsense wouldn’t be either), though it is not preferred if a complete redesign.

• Many things may come from this Soul Stream lore; from magics to events to other various player-oriented elements, much content is viable.