Stuff about Cala a bhàis -Beware of the spirits of the night and other unholy things that lurk. -The stars literally have eyes. Few think it to be a rumor, but they will suddenly set their gaze upon you if you stand and stare at the night sky for too long and look at it with anger rather than worship. Pray before the stars, or else. -Deadly gargoyles that guard the bodies of the deceased. Souls are lucky if being caught is the end of them. You can be transformed and join them in their infernal existence. -Church grims that a l s o attack grave robbers! -Tree roots made of bone that are harvested -Steampunk automatons, but lacking the stereotypical smoke -Bodies in this nightmare simply don't decay, at least not like they do in our world. What the Harbor of Death is about: Souls can die, but not be allowed rest in the afterlife. There are two nations that split the continent in half. Both nations are focused on reanimation, psychological manipulation, the hopes of one day controlling the other country plus their own citiziens. One nation is focused on obedient, yet still monstrous cyborg soldiers while the other stitches together their soldiers and creaties other undead abominations. Places: Railway stations, naval shipyards, factories, and industrial ports. Roles in this world: Servants, factory workers, blacksmiths, coal miners, fishermen, merchants, soldiers, artistans probably more- Spies: Monitors what is imported and exported. They intercept telegrams, bribe, manipulate, and more. The four main -important- roles: Lawyers: Lawyers walk the line between life and death within this world. They forge peace treaties between monsters and humans, ensuring that neither side is double crossed and these monsters have their loyalty prioritized to the family that lives next to them. Priests: Priests hold service for the god Calabhàs, honoring him, appeasing him, and on the rare occasion, negotiating with him. Souls are expected to visit his church often. Calabhàs rules are not strict but he can be easily offended. Scientists: These are the individuals in charge of developing technology and improving experiment after experiment. Doctors: Doctors are not stricly just scientists. Some may only care for human patients. Doctors are just as revered because Calabhàs is a god who sees the importance of life and death. Though he may not respect the lines between the two, he does understand it. Species within Cala a bhàis: Humans, gargoyles, ghosts, ghouls, werewolves, reanimated creatures, some sirens along the coast and within the lochs, and cyborgs. And within the reanimated creatures category are beings that happen to have curses unique to only them. In this world, death is not the end. It is the loss of control. The poor and working class are revived so that the work cycle continues while the wealthy and elite cremate their loved ones so that they are never reanimated like the lower class. However, instead, Calabhàs has their monsterous forms determined by their death and/or sins commited while they were living.
About Calabhàs. Calabhàs is 147-157 years old. He's quite young for a nightmare and has two processes one of which is called the CuIIing. He has souls, they age, they naturally pass away, and he stores them by keeping them within his forests and various bodies of water. And he always makes sure his souls have families. Generations after generations. And once its been 70 years, he takes his original souls PLUS the new ones produced and sells and trades them. Souls suffer for years. Most, if not all, don't get to meet their descendants as new monsters are made to go into new territories in the ever expanding Forest, and no one gets a proper afterlife. And he keeps the fates of the dead mysterious. Some believe they go to heaven. Some suspect the real truth. But death not being the end is established in a way where people believe its for the unlucky of the working class. However, if deemed powerful enough souls experience The Grand Reversal/The Inversion. It has two different names, depending on who you ask. The Undead look forward to this sacred day, while the wealthy fear it. Whatever sins you've committed or suffered will be compensated. The Grand Reversal makes remaining souls human again, while also taking all the social and economical power souls had by putting them at the bottom. Some wake as monsters in the forest, others are sIain and buried, waiting for grave robbers and to endure the fate they've subjected so many others to. As one can imagine for the souls that are permanently kept, they're forced to live many different lives without any true rest. Its an unsettling thing. Former monstrous souls and undead industrial workers wake up one day and the world has literally reset. What once was the homes of their masters or political figureheads now has their names on these places. People rejoice in the streets. They cheer at the large scale vioIence of the god. And its a cycle. Calabhàs encourages his souls to be horrible people so that he's justified in punishing them.
