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>The Haze has descended, and with it the Unliving rise.
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The unliving migrate to specific areas. After enough have gathered, the horde moves in a direction, searching for the living.
The unliving have various degrees of sentience, some have barely animalistic instincts while others are fully capable of diplomacy and fine motor skills. They view the living the way the living view them, as an enemy because they are an opposite that views them with fear. True Death is an interesting concept that arises when one dies in either a way that destroys the body completely or under circumstances that banish or destroys the soul, it forms the basis of the core religions for both living and unliving. The living yearn for true death and pray for it hopin their gods will grant them escape from joining the ranks of the unliving while the unliving fear it and pray that they may rise again. Some from both sides disagree and see the other side as just another stage of life and not something to be hated
All is futile though, as this world was ridden of the living a when the Haze descended. Maybe when the Haze ascends again, the living will search for the Unliving
A world governed by the Haze. Mayhaps the Haze is sentient itself
Also, there are three close orbiting moons. At one time throughout the year when the moons are closest to the realm, and gravity everywhere is lessened by nearly half for a full month.
Maybe that's why the haze descends. More gravity?
Many believe the haze inflicts a blight on people, slowly sapping away life from those exposed to it, eventually turning them into the undead.
The blight rights itself if given time to recover with no further exposure to to The Haze, however those who wish to travel through it typically wear protective garb, lined with scented oils and flowers in order to ward off the blight.
Fire clears the haze in a disproportionate area (a torch can clear a 10ft area of the haze) so fire is widely worshiped and hoarded by the living, and despised by the undead who seek to destroy it.