Our hero has met his match. The odds are stacked against him, and he will not win the day. At last, battered and bruised, the henchman’s sword falls, and the world turns black.
Then what? What happens next is up to you, the author. Have you considered the world after death, the place beyond space? Why or why not? Tell me about your world’s afterlife, if there is one.
In my Sci-Fi world, there are individuals who have the gift to rebound from death. For each one of them, the experience is different. Some dream while they are “dead”, others remember falling through a tall cloud and slamming back into their body like they hit the ground, and others still suffer extreme pain, and it drives them mad. In my fantasy world, each individual goes to the place that they imagined they would, but it is always twisted. Each place is peaceful, but inconvenient.
Does your world have religious ideas of what the afterlife will be? Do they believe in a good place and a bad place, or is it more complicated than that? Many fantasy worlds I have read have an arbiter waiting on the other side, a kind of judge who’s job it is to weigh the lives of those recently deceased, this might find its origins in a lot of cultures, the Egyptian myth has dead people’s hearts weighed against a feather, in Greek myths the person’s soul is judged by a council of heroes, in the Christian afterlife God Himself judges and condemns or forgives those who have accepted His Son, Jesus Christ.
Death is a very serious subject and is often considered the end for many cultures and people. Recent trends in fictional media, however, suggest that this does not have to be the case. There is a genre of Japanese animation called “Isekai,” which translates to “another world”. In this genre, the hero finds themselves in another world where they must adventure. Oftentimes, they get there because they died here in our world. Maybe your fantasy is like that, when the hero dies, their journey simply begins anew in another world.
Let me hear what you have to say! I want to know what you’ve decided to work into your fantasy world.
Very interesting read thanks for sharing🙏
Thank you for taking the time to read it!