The Lost City of Stygia

The Lost City of Stygia is a far reaching legend within a society who lives in symbiosis with mortal legends. Some people even daring to go as far as calling it a flat out hoax. It is said to have been the last and only surviving place that remained after what The Bound community now regard as The Great Below appeared. While many Sin-Eaters believe that The Great Below is just a natural part of The Underworld as any other domain it holds in itself. Others think it is a sink-hole of souls and death energy, that at one point came to be way after The Underworld had spawned. There are as many beliefs of both The Great Below and Stygia as there are people, each individual giving the question of either of them a different answer most likely.

However, Stygia is regarded by legend as the only domain which survived the transition between what came before and the now. What that means, not even the ones harboring this legend can even tell you most of the time. The main myth being that there were many worlds, galaxies and universes before this one, and Stygia is the domain which survived each and every one of these transitional cycles. Others say that simply The Underworld is going through cycles, destroying itself after too many ghosts came to linger on in the Twilight instead of moving on. This version closely sewing itself into the myth of The Great Maelstrom. Some even claim that Stygia is simply the domain which was and will usher forth The First Death Lord, Abel. The first of the dead and thus the one who came to mould The Underworld to his own image. With his return to judge the dead as he would see it fit. However, all of these stories are just as likely as they are utterly wrong. Where each legend do agree on however, is that Stygia holds the most powerful ghosts in all of history, the spirits of people who are "merely waiting" to return to the Mundane World.

These people include the likes of: St. John the Evangelist, Muhammad al-Mahdi, King Arthur, Thomas the Rhymer, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Owain Glyndŵr, Sir Francis Drake, Vytautas the Great, Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Theseus, Constantine I, Constantine XI Palaiologos, Prince Csaba, King St. Stephen, King St. Ladislaus, King Matthias Corvinus, King Pelayo, King David, Vlad III the Impaler, Väinämöinen, Ogier the Dane, King Olaf I, Napoleon Bonaparte, Matija Gubec, St. Wenceslas, William Tell, Emperor Norton, Key-Khosrow, and Tecumseh.

Some people like to spice up more modern names into it in the ghosts awaiting release in the likeness of Che Guevara, Bernardo Reyes, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Pope John Paul II and even the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson. Though these takes on the legend are the most extreme and fringe ones. Enjoying probably the least of following.