They will find themselves more comfortable immediately, as they pour in, thousands of them crowding into the same space and sheering in all directions as more come through. The nature of this place restores the daemon-part to anyone present who's lost it; in the cases of those who are missing physical daemons, those are back, in their original forms, intersubstantial with their people but with no one else. The nature of the door takes away the cold, the perpetual exhaustion.
There are optional features to being present in Amariah's afterlife, too, transparent on entry to anyone who'd like to use them - someone not currently co-occupying space with another shade can resume substantiality, and switch back and forth at will. A shade who's forgotten and wishes not to have forgotten can solicit from the world, and receive, a jolt of memory - not perfect recall, but enough to conjure up the general features of their life; Amariah doesn't think many of them have substantial events from the land of the dead to get in the way. Anyone who wants a visit from a living person can invite the living person when they dream; these dreams, functionally if not metaphysically like Joker dreams of Milliways, will supply an avatar to occupy, end at will of the dreamer, and be fully memorable on waking. This feature won't be fully accessible while the ghosts are still pouring in, but she will speed up time some soon enough. And anyone seeking another dead person will find that they can travel towards them unerringly at great speed, unless the individual they wish to find isn't interested in being found. Little enchantmentlike houses will pop up for those who want them and find unoccupied space to put them in; they will grow and develop features to suit their occupants with ongoing use.
The dead can also sleep, now. As long as they like. If that is what they'd prefer to do with eternity - if they don't want to take the memory jolt, visit with the living, come up with their own projects to fill their time - they have Amariah's blessing to sleep.
And this door - this door that is currently linking them to the old, blasted, pitiful land of the dead - when that's done with, when everyone has gone through, it and its like can sometimes act as a door to the living worlds, if enough living visitors cooperate to open it for a dead loved one and the harpies deem the person hoping to return to life safe.
Amariah will want to take the harpies on a little trip Downside so they can grant these departing shades torchability.
But that can wait until this vast, vast crowd of shades is done coming through and weeping with the relief of warmth and wholeness.
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Date: 2013-05-23 04:10 pm (UTC)They will find themselves more comfortable immediately, as they pour in, thousands of them crowding into the same space and sheering in all directions as more come through. The nature of this place restores the daemon-part to anyone present who's lost it; in the cases of those who are missing physical daemons, those are back, in their original forms, intersubstantial with their people but with no one else. The nature of the door takes away the cold, the perpetual exhaustion.
There are optional features to being present in Amariah's afterlife, too, transparent on entry to anyone who'd like to use them - someone not currently co-occupying space with another shade can resume substantiality, and switch back and forth at will. A shade who's forgotten and wishes not to have forgotten can solicit from the world, and receive, a jolt of memory - not perfect recall, but enough to conjure up the general features of their life; Amariah doesn't think many of them have substantial events from the land of the dead to get in the way. Anyone who wants a visit from a living person can invite the living person when they dream; these dreams, functionally if not metaphysically like Joker dreams of Milliways, will supply an avatar to occupy, end at will of the dreamer, and be fully memorable on waking. This feature won't be fully accessible while the ghosts are still pouring in, but she will speed up time some soon enough. And anyone seeking another dead person will find that they can travel towards them unerringly at great speed, unless the individual they wish to find isn't interested in being found. Little enchantmentlike houses will pop up for those who want them and find unoccupied space to put them in; they will grow and develop features to suit their occupants with ongoing use.
The dead can also sleep, now. As long as they like. If that is what they'd prefer to do with eternity - if they don't want to take the memory jolt, visit with the living, come up with their own projects to fill their time - they have Amariah's blessing to sleep.
And this door - this door that is currently linking them to the old, blasted, pitiful land of the dead - when that's done with, when everyone has gone through, it and its like can sometimes act as a door to the living worlds, if enough living visitors cooperate to open it for a dead loved one and the harpies deem the person hoping to return to life safe.
Amariah will want to take the harpies on a little trip Downside so they can grant these departing shades torchability.
But that can wait until this vast, vast crowd of shades is done coming through and weeping with the relief of warmth and wholeness.