I'm gonna tell it like my grandpa told it to me, best I can remember, but I don't remember everything and I'm not an expert by any means.
[she takes a breath and starts--]
So. When a person dies, they're judged and eventually returned to the Currents, right? And the stuff that made them up returns to the cycle of life. An Undead goes the other way-- they escape the underworld to live again. This is bad, partly because living in the Underworld is supposed to... stagnate you, rot you, and partly because you separate yourself from the main cycle, you see? You lose the... The things.
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Date: 2025-01-26 04:58 am (UTC)[she takes a breath and starts--]
So. When a person dies, they're judged and eventually returned to the Currents, right? And the stuff that made them up returns to the cycle of life. An Undead goes the other way-- they escape the underworld to live again. This is bad, partly because living in the Underworld is supposed to... stagnate you, rot you, and partly because you separate yourself from the main cycle, you see? You lose the... The things.
Ugh. I was never much of a preacher...