Boneyard

The Boneyard, sometimes referred to as Purgatory or the Spirelands, is a neutral plane where the souls of dead mortals from the Material Plane are judged by the goddess Pharasma. It rests atop Pharasma's Spire, jutting out from Axis into the Astral Plane. Souls are brought to the Boneyard by the River of Souls, and after judgement, are sent to the appropriate plane or domain in the Outer Sphere. Some arrive at the Boneyard with their choices already made or pacts signed, but others are judged by a series of courts.

Geography

The Boneyard appears as a vast necropolis filled with countless courtyards, monuments, graves, and forums teeming with the souls of the dead awaiting judgement. Each of these courts is shaped and styled to correspond to one of the Outer Planes, and is overseen and guarded by representatives from each of the gods.

Places of interest

• Dead Roads
• Eight Courts (including the Devouring Court)
• Graveyard of Souls
• Inner Court
• Lake of Mortal Reflections
• Pharasma's Court
• Pharasma's Palace
• Realm of the Content
• River of Souls
• Runebarrow

Fauna & Flora

The souls of the neutral dead remain in the Boneyard and are transformed in the lands beyond Pharasma's palace and the necropolis into aeons. These strange creatures act as the goddess' advisors, caretakers, explorers, guardians, guides, and even soldiers in times of war. The souls of the neutral dead also form into psychopomps who serve as the bureaucracy of death. In the unclaimed wilderness of Boneyard wolf-like packs of esoboks patrol, protecting the restful dead from both mortal and outsider intruders who would disturb them.

Crypt dragons are born in the Boneyard, but often prefer to make their permanent lairs on the Material Plane and only return to the Boneyard to escort and represent especially favoured souls.

The God of the End Times, Groetus, hangs eternally over the Boneyard like a twisted moon that edges closer with each orbit. It is whispered that when he reaches the Spire, all of creation will be wiped away in a great apocalypse.

Alternative Name(s)

Purgatory
House of Dust
Spirelands

Type

Plane of Existence

Location under

Outer Sphere

Included Locations

• Pharasma's Palace

Gravity
Normal
Time 
Timeless
Realm 
Immeasurable
Structure
 Lasting
Essence 
Mixed
Alignment 
Strongly neutral
Magic 
Enhanced
Denizens 
Psychopomps
Shinigami
Outsiders petitioning for souls
All unjudged souls
Neutral souls
Divinities 
Pharasma; Achaekek, Groetus, psychopomp ushers
Description 
Vast city surrounding great temple, atop an immense spire rising from Axis