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The Veil Albicant

When you die, you are but a hair's breadth from this world. All about you is a drifting white mist, constantly suggesting the shapes of this world, and if your body is resuscitated you may yet return.

This is the veil albicant. This world is like a single point in the vast scapes of death, and the veil albicant the border. Whichever way you go from there will take you deeper into death.


Thoughts

If I did use this as the background to the game plot, it'd still be set in the world and the veil albicant, but I feel it's important to know this sort of thing.

I really enjoy making this sort of thing up.

I made no deliberate homages, but I can see references to Garth Nix's Abhorsen, Grim Fandango, and Earthsea. Is there anything else?

Notice that if someone's dying/recently dead, you can't save them by bringing them back, you need to do that as well if they're physically recovered but their soul is trapped or lost.

Are there any sorts of undead I missed? Did I pick the best names? For that matter, do you think the pseudo-heraldic names of the veils was the right way to go