What’s up, human?
We’re pretty sure you've heard that when your final time comes, your soul will separate from your body. Your soul, which is the essence of who you are, lives on. A bit cliche, don't you think? What books and search engines don’t tell you is your soul will eventually reside in a secret supernatural world called The Void.
The Void is a large ornate castle embedded within the crevices of an ancient mountain somewhere in the Scottish Highlands. The mountain, known to the locals as Mt. Arcadia, is said to have existed before the destruction of Pangaea and is therefore speculated by several historians and geologists as one of the oldest of its kind. Because of this, many local legends and folklore have emerged about the existence of the mountain, ranging from warnings about feral creatures that roam around its dark woodland to witches that cast unbreakable curses and to vengeful ghosts who are trapped beneath its murky looming caves.
In fact, Arcadia remained unexplored for the vast majority of its existence. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that a pair of Swedish mountaineers, despite several forewarnings from the locals about the mountain’s dangers, decided to go for a hike one morning and never returned.
Several aerial searches of the area proved unfruitful. Since no one dared to go to the forest and search on foot, the bodies of the hikers were never recovered. Their spirits are said to incessantly haunt the forest. Those who live near the mountain would report a howling human cry coming from beyond the trees each night, as though the two men were lamenting their fate of being unable to escape the darkness that binds them there.
Although Mt. Arcadia exists and strikes fear into many who dare not go near it, the castle of The Void remains invisible to mortal eyes. Only a few select individuals, most of them already dead, were granted the ability to see the temple in all its majesty, and are tasked to pay homage to the beings that reside in it.
Each floor of The Void will let you meet different Families of your fellow spirits—death omens, revenants, specters, poltergeists, vengeful spirits—all divided into levels with each environment becoming more dangerous as it goes down. But we shall not spill any further. You’ll know it when you die. You are probably thinking you will gain friends right away. Not so fast though, you still have to be careful who you side with. Some spirits seek completion or revenge in The Mortal World. Some rob graves and devour corpses. Some go back and forth to pull pranks on the living. Some probe mysterious disappearances of both the dead and the living. Some are simply too dangerous.
The fun thing about all of these is most spirits still devote themselves into the usual earthly pleasures: making music, doing art, and drowning further with some of the old sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It’s like nothing really changed, right? The spirit of life is very much alive right here... which is kind of ironic.
