Fictional physics

Q. You said "Atheistic"? Everyone thinks they know what it means, but are they right?

It's easier to start by defining a religion, because even if they can't put it into words, most people have a fairly clear idea what it is. When souls travel further into death from the Veil Albicant, they often follow, or move in the wake of, a soul ahead of them. But they typically move into a whole region of death defined by the passing of a great soul long ago: as far as we know, this is essentially what the different veils are.

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Fictional physics

Q. But if bodies physically enter death, and yet deeper in death people seem to be entirely formless, what happens to them? Is the world being slowly depleted of physical matter?

We don't know. It seems clear that immediately following death, a person still inhabits their physical body -- because it can be brought back into life. But that very far into the veils, they no longer do so, because most bodies no longer resemble physical humans, and many change at will.

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