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[Mesa]

// Alright, I'll admit it - The [Highcore] Prison was a rather terrible idea, at least for the universe it was set in, since it was a bit random and largely unrelated to the lore of YAaSD. This one is much more fitting and should also be more fun to play overall. Still kept in the same style, of course.
Besides, this one seems more fitting, since it gives you an insight on how the humanity died and the power that the demons can have.

The Abyss. Hell. The Outlands.
Those are only a fraction of the many names that people give to the enigmatic mirror dimension, similar to our own, inhabited by many a soul of those that had to be parted with their mortal bodies. The souls that wander here are demons, but not all demons are necessarily evil as their name would suggest -  The place that is easy to enter, but almost impossible to leave, unless one was lucky enough to get a soul offer from a mortal and be summoned into the living realm.

However, a very unusual event has happened recently in the mortal realm - a great dragon's rampage has caused an influx of souls entering the demonic plane, and the desperate living have requested help to banish the Harbinger. They spoke to Clafarius, the most powerful demon at the time, bearing a power of collectively over a thousand souls, and many demonic vassals. Clafarius however, did not want souls for his work - instead, he wanted much, much more than that - every thousand years, the barrier seperating demons from the living would shatter for one night, and the undead would come back and leave destruction in their wake, further expanding their very legions of apocalypse.

Now you stand in the bleak landscape, as a sole, powerless soul, with a chance of ascension into power as the gate opens once more, four thousand years after the dragon was banished and trapped in the realm of the living.

You notice a lot of demons of all kinds, shapes and form gathering around a tall, ominous structure near you - a pitch-black, round gate, pulsating with red light from the inside, with a translucent wall of the same color in the middle. You are confused about this, as are many other of your comrades, but others very quickly understand it and swiftly move through it, with others following.

"You shouldn't stay here.", they say. "The gate closes by the morning."

Spoiler: Demonology of this world (click to show/hide)

Whenever a living creature with a soul (ranging from a rabbit to a dwarf to a thousand-years dragon) dies, under normal circumstances (ie. not Helchistrasza from You Are a Skeletal Dragon), the corpse stay in the mortal realm to eventually rot and the soul is sent into the realm of the undead and turned into a demon. It loses all its powers and physical traits (the latter are justified by lack of the body that possessed the traits in question), but it retains its initial appearance. If it had a skin, it will turn black. If it had hair, scales or other material covering the majority of the outside body, they will initially turn white.

Demonic powers
Initially all demons lose the powers that they gained in the mortal life - a mage will lose the knowledge of his spells, a warrior may lift a sword but won't do much good with it and a dragon will lose his fire breath (justified by lack of physical organs otherwise needed for a fire breath to be possible to pull off).
Demons can, however, absorb souls of the living (if they ever end up the mortal living or vice versa) when they kill them, and the said soul is trapped within the victorious demon's ethereal body, tinting one hair/scale/feather blood red.

Said souls can be converted into devastating powers that the demons themselves can conjure (the tinted hair will still be tinted, though). Some souls give more power than the others, and sometimes a single powerful soul may provide enough "energy" for multiple powers.
Said powers can range from teleportation to manipulation of elements to time travel.

Demonic feudalism
Whenever a demon carrying souls is defeated by another demon, the loser becomes the victor's "vassal" - all of his/her souls are "transferred" to the winner and the loser has to work for his new master, gaining control of the souls that the vassal absorbs. The maximum souls that the vassal has to provide for his master is equal to his souls before losing. This means that demons without souls cannot become vassals if they lose. A single vassal cannot work for two masters at once. The "Vassal of my vassal is also my vassal" rule applies here.

Summoning demons and soul offerings
Normally demons are stuck in their realm and are unable to leave it. Some mortals have however learned the secrets of demon summoning and opening portals between the two realms.

First, one needs a weapon from a material that exists on both planes of existence - the deadstone. (it's what the entire undead realm is made of) Souls of mortals killed with it are stuck in the mortal realm and cannot emerge into the realm of the dead and become demons themselves. There are also spells specifically meant to prevent souls from escaping. Demons can sense those souls, and those who come close enough will be able to enter the realm of the living, becoming subjected to the mortal(s) that summoned them. Once they've finished their requested work, they can absorb their payment, ranging from one soul to upwards of hundreds. Of course, the demons can reject the mortal offerings and ignore the call.


When in the mortal realm, demons are fully subjected to its physics (unless they possess a power that defies them in some way). Should they die, their souls are released and become free, and the demon returns back to "square one" (ie. loses the hold of all his powers).

Who were you? What do you look like? How long have you been in this hellhole?
// (you can be a carp for all I care, since you're probably gonna end up with a Gyarados-like posture)

[Empiricist]

Name: Name is meaningless for death and attenuation into obscurity is inevitable
Appearance: A carp-like entity comprised of a spongy, bloodless substance with vague features and no discernible organs
Age: Meaningless. But for the sake of this banality, records have been kept. Six centuries.

[Mesa]

Name: Name is meaningless for death and attenuation into obscurity is inevitable
Appearance: A carp-like entity comprised of a spongy, bloodless substance with vague features and no discernible organs
Age: Meaningless. But for the sake of this banality, records have been kept. Six centuries.

So what, a giant sponge? (not so giant anymore, though)
How did you even end up here?

[Eotyrannus]

Name: Name is meaningless for death and attenuation into obscurity is inevitable
Appearance: A carp-like entity comprised of a spongy, bloodless substance with vague features and no discernible organs
Age: Meaningless. But for the sake of this banality, records have been kept. Six centuries.

So what, a giant sponge? (not so giant anymore, though)
How did you even end up here?

Someone figured out how to make blocks out of cotton candy. And then we had pink sugary pain crush us.

[Mesa]

Shameless self-bump.
I hate doing this, but I'm not going to hope for someone else to do it. *scrub*

[Eotyrannus]

We are a giant sponge who was crushed by solid sugary goodness.