Life’s eternal struggle rages across thousands of different worlds as race after race fights for survival. For those that exist on this plane, the last unanswerable question becomes “What will happen after death?” Countless deities are worshipped in the hope that the afterlife will be a far kinder place than the one they leave.
Nature is used to describe the endless struggle that rages across the universe where only the strong survive. Time after time the defenseless suffer while the strong and ruthless control the fate of the weak. Each being lives and dies, each finding their place and each wondering what will happen when their candle finally burns out. When it finally happens, very few find themselves correct.
The light at the end of the tunnel leads to a surreal world where the entities gain new bodies, sometimes of races completely unfamiliar to them. With no recognizable guides, each person must find their way again. Yet in this new world, they are given a fresh start. The bodies they gain are fully grown and more capable than those they had in their previous life. The weak in body have become strong while those of weak mind are now capable of advanced thought. Everyone has the same potential in this constantly changing world and anything that is possible can happen when the beings find themselves able to create whatever their dreams desired in life. Speech is no hindrance as universal language has been given to everyone and death simply means a rebirth to this plane.
The new arrivals find the world beautiful in its chaos, and the constantly changing environment lends to endless diversity. Entire areas appear and vanish in a matter of hours and environments once thought to be constant rearrange themselves. As a result, no one knows the extent of their new home. New arrivals find themselves uncertain of where they are and why they were sent there. For some, this uncertainty becomes a need for purpose and meaning, which leads inevitably to quests for answers. Others simply revel in the hedonistic pleasures once denied them.
Time is meaningless here as beings from past, present, and future are flung together, bringing their technology and ideas with them. None know how long they will exist in this land of chaos and the laws of Fate seem to have been repealed. As familiarity comes, each realizes they alone control their own destiny. Sides are being chosen in this world where death is not the end but merely the next step. Whatever happens, they will finally decide who they are and take their place in the greatest life of all.
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