Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION- Intent: Create a new location within the Netherworld
- Image Credit: Click - Zdzislaw Beksinski
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- Landmark Name: The Graveyard
- Classification: Wasteland
- Location: Netherworld of the Force
- Affiliation: Dark Side of the Force
- Size: Massive
- Population: Uninhabited
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- Accessibility: Like everywhere in the Netherworld of the Force, one must travel through one of the many Netherworld Gates located across the galaxy. But to enter the Graveyard is another task all-together, as one must be burdened with grief and regret for the death of others. Only those, laden with such sorrow, will find the way to the Graveyard wide open.
- Description: Constructed from the collective consciousness of every sentient being who had ever died with grief and regret in their heart for those that had passed before them, the Graveyard is a metaphysical manifestation of said grief. An endless and nearly flat expanse dusted with white ash, the Graveyard's principle feature is the seemingly unending rows of macabre tombstones for which it gained its name. Bearing no designation, these tombstones typically stand anywhere from a half a meter to three meters in height with similar varying width. They seem to be constructed out of a crystalline substance that greatly resembles dried blood, the front edifice forming rows of bones not unlike those forming the ribcage. From their base sprouts thick blood-red kudzu that spreads across the ash-covered ground in every direction.
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- Lucidity: Those who are unfortunate enough to traverse the Graveyard will find no solace from the grief gnawing at their heart. The Graveyard feels your sorrow and reciprocates it with illusion, the voices of the deceased wafting over the rows like faint whispers followed by faint. The Graveyard serves to seduce the weak-willed grieving into believing that there is a way to bring back those they've lost. Apparitions peer from yonder distance and bray at the grieving in the voices that the lost dead once held in life, but it is all a farce. No matter how far or fast one travels the endless rows they will never come any closer to these apparitions. Eventually, the Graveyard will scour all sanity from your mind the longer you wander, consumed by grief until nothing else remains. However, those who possess the strength of will to resist the Graveyard's seductions and find peace with their grief will become aware of the way out.
- Hostility: Though the Graveyard seems empty and lifeless, it does have its dangers. When one gives themselves over the voices and the illusions they breath life into an entity born of this harrowing realm. At first it manifests as a dark splotch, a shadow on the periphery that disappears as soon as you turn your gaze. But with every successive appearance, the dark blotch grows nearer, and nearer. It gains clarity of shape, a dessicated creature with frighteningly elongated limbs with pale milk-colored flesh pulled taut over misshapen bones. As the madness of grief consumes those afflicted to wander the Graveyard, the creature takes hold of their body and brings them to an empty grave; freshly dug. It deposits their catatonic body into the dark pit, their form enveloped by the growing vines of blood-red kudzu until nothing of them can be seen. Into the pit the creature follows, its body decaying away as it falls until it becomes the dirt that covers the open grave. From the ground sprouts another tombstone, slick with blood seeping off the bone that covers its grotesque edifice.
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Knowledge of the Graveyard had been sparse in the thousands of years preceding the Akala Crisis (844 ABY), only gleaned through powerful seers and those more attuned to the Netherworld of the Force. In the years after the Crisis, a meager awareness of the Graveyard's existence began to compile as more and more survivors of the Crisis recounted their experiences in the Netherworld.
First hand accounts were well documented by various interplanetary governments, with information often being shared between them in order to better treat the survivors. Though some of these accounts were ultimately lost with the recent upheavals in the Core and Inner Rim, many others were confiscated by Imperial scientists in a dark hope to one day uncover and master the secrets of the Netherworld of the Force.