The Ultimate End - Death

Death, the ultimate end, every life must cease in one way or another. Since the dawn of time people have worshiped the power that this end carries. Stories often tell of brave heroes embarking on Perilous quests, where as most people see the deeds of the hero as the story, followers of Death often use the end of the hero to judge the worth of the story. The followers of this religion can be extremely mean and aggressive if provoked. The extremists will likely attack people on sight in order to satisfy their insatiable desire to prove them selves worthy to their god.

Most followers of death have a bit of a mean streak. The three main branches of religions of death are scourge, necropsy and cycle each carrying a completely different perspective on death. The followers of scourge tend to have the greatest respect for the finality that is death. On a more amusing note they also tend to make the best use of this time and generally like to inflict as much pain as possible before delivering the final blow, if they even choose to do so. In exact opposite to such respect are the followers of Necropsy. In general followers of this path tend to see death as an event that needs to be avoided. Such fanatics may be capable raising the dead into minions or studding the dead to attempt to circumvent their own end. Lastly the followers of the cycle see things as a great loop. In this loop all things are born, live, die and then are born again.

This is not to mean that all followers of death are bad people, blood thirsty monsters, or cold hearted killers. Some have even lead constructive lives and brought good to the world; be it through the laws or knowledge or even honor. Such people often realize that there are more aspects to death than the common simple fanatic. The most devout minions of death are granted freedom from this end, and though their bodies are lifeless they still sunder on plaguing the living with whatever drives their existence. However most theologians analyze this aspect of death and can incorporate it into the world of the living. Such can be done by realizing that even though you take the life of someone they still live on either in the spirit world or otherwise. Often these theologians tend to take a more passive route to achieving their goals and spreading the words of death.

Once there was a grand hero. He had fallen many a foe and his reputation was well known about the land. Upon his return voyage he chanced upon an old man who wanted nothing more than some coin. The hero refused only to find that he was to sail upon the same ship as the old man. Only a few days into the voyage the crew began talking and then threw him off the boat at the next port. Once again the old man was seen about the port just before the town ran him out. Upon finding his way home, his wife kicked him out and his kids cried that he had shamed them. When the hero looked up from the mud he saw the man staring down at him. The hero said, "why have you done this, why not just kill me?" To that the old man replied "Have I not just done so?" and turned his back to walk away.