Deepskies

The Deepskies are a state of being, rather than a specific place in time and space, to which the immortal souls of living creatures in Halse depart after death. They are a series of tangible mirrors of the real world existing in the dreams of the slumbering Cataclysm, with slight alterations depending on the inhabitants of a particular Deepsky. Here the dead exist forever, waiting for the Cataclysm to awaken and send them on to the true afterlife.

Each Deepsky instance is policed by a guardian Kindred, who protects it from deterioration and the nightmares suffered by the Cataclysm in its sleep. The Kindred also escort the dead to the afterlife.

Occasionally the barrier between the god's dream state and the real world weakens for some reason, allowing ghosts of the dead to haunt the living or merely watch them.

There may be a way of accessing the Deepskies from a physical location in the world of the living, but reports of such a place and method survive only in myths and legends.

Ancient Murcose in Nedevara was known to use a combination of ritual, dark, and light magic to tear rifts in the Deepskies and commune with the dead, but this art has been lost for thousands of years.