Baifa Monü Zhuan
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit and detail aspects of the Atrisian underworld
- Image Credit:
Gate of Hell
Hellblade: Senau's sacrifice - Shadows Die Twice
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: N/A
- Rift Name: Kameyama
- Rift Alignment: Neutral
- Location: Atrisia (codex) Atrisia (wookie)
- Destination: Kameyama the Atrisian underworld: Starting from the passage, the waters are obscured once you pass through with mist and arrive on the small shores leading intothe passage. Strewn with hand that are grabbing and trying to pull down while voices beckon forward. Once through the passage it opens up into a large nearly enclosed valley. Forested and covered in mists, the ancient forest with trees towering over and gnarled roots making clear pathways through where they are going. The forest has an inn at the center and pathways strewn with ruined sections of cities, shrines going to the darker areas. THe sunless lands and distance shore where the ferrymen waits to take others deeper into the netherworld.
- Direction: Both Directions
- Size: Small
- Accessibility: Located on the main Atrisian continent in Sharu Lake. The gate can be accessed easily enough by anyone able to get across the water to it and enter.
- Description: Originally in legends called the gates to the underworld. The red passage stands in the middle of a lake with corded rope over the one side of it. The netherworld event that tore rifts across the galaxy anchored onto the gate itself. The waters around it are crystal clear with smooth rocks below the surface. The lake is largely shallow and comes out in the netherworld upon the shores that lead into the passage. THe passage comes out into the mist shrouded valley itself where villages and shrines dedicated to the ancestors are located. Above the gates though in Ancient Atrisian as inscribed "The real hell is inside the person."
RIFT EFFECTS
Unease at first as you pass through the way into the massive mist shrouded valley. The sounds of people.. of animals are just on the edge of perception but nothing is there. Manifestations of the living beings ID are here.. the deepest most repressed thoughts, regrets, fears, ambitions can appear in the mists to tempt them to stay within the netherworld or to attack them if they give it enough power. Mythological beings from Atrisia seem to exist and wander around tempting, fighting, killing or guiding. The split faced woman, the drowned man, the woman of bones, the ravenous rebel and the gi. Objects of ancient standing that have absorbed residual power to develop a sort of sentience and personality.
POINTS OF INTEREST
The way forward: River of blood and an impossible number of hands reaching and grabbing at you. The hands if they can grasp will try to pull the person into the walls.
The Guardian: There is not much known about the guardian, the size of it seems to be massive.. its attention to people rarely exists and it just looms around almost silently within the netherworld.
The Ferryman: At the far end a sunless region of the valley where only black water resides. There is a young Atrisian girl with a boat who offers to release from the horrors of the Netherworld.
The Crimson Butterfly: An inn at the center of the forest lost in the mists. The being who is there by all standards appears to be Atrisian but wears a mask over her mouth. She is rarely seen and if she is asks if she is beautiful. If they answer yes then she removes her mask to reveal a horrific visage with her cheeks slashed. She'll ask again and try to attack. Best to avoid getting her attention.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The ancient gates to the underworld or at least they were in legend but no one was ever really able to prove it. FOr centuries it stood there as Atrisia was united under the Jade Empress and later her son. It stood through the test of time as the Kital Phard dynasties became the Atrisian Commonwealth, an empire and the commonwealth again. The red wood or at least what seemed like wood with paint on it not chipping and not faltering until the Netherworld event tore rifts across the galaxy. On Atrisia a small one opened up leading to what had been described before. A mist valley o the border to the sunless lands. Filled with the greatest fears of the mind. As soon as the rift opened the gate that had stood there for centuries upon centuries suddenly had more interest. The belief that the ferryman would come to take the souls of the damned to hell. THe inscriptions upon the gate are also something but there is more in the old legends about being able to summon and consign souls to the netherworld for a price... as of yet there is no proof either way it is possible.
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