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Species

Name: Traditionally known as "Death gods", "Reapers", "Shinigamis", however they truly have no name and are categorized by the alphabet. We will use the title "Lodestar."

Design: They have no real form. They process their bodies to look however they desire. Commonly they take on a human guise to keep from frightening the dead. Another common features is clothing or hair is in constant motion, black and misty regardless of their chosen colors.

Information:
There are a total of 26 unique human Lodestars. They each have a name that corresponds with a letter of the alphabet and the letter "I" following. (Ex. Ai, Bi, Ci, Di, etc.) They conjur up personalities to have but generally they are nothing.
Lodestars remain with a human being from conception to death, watching them their entire life to understand who they are and where they must be lead in their afterlife.
The moment a human is concepted, a Lodestar is randomly assigned to the pregnant mother, meaning two Lodestars will follow her: her own and her child's.
When a human dies, the Lodestar is the guide to their afterlife. Based on their beliefs, the Lodestar will guide them to the world they imagine is what is going to follow their death.

For example, A woman believes she will go to Heaven when she dies. She will be surrounded by angels and her family, living a life of eternal peace amongst them and God. The Lodestar assigned to her will create this world specifically for her, a facade of her family, since they live in their own afterlives, and the angels and Heaven she always dreamed she'd reside in. He will guide her soul into this life, thus releasing her from the living plane.

In the case of a baby or fetus, neither of which can grasp the concept of belief, they will fade from any and all planes, ceasing existance.

Also in the case of a traumatic death, should the person take on the form of a ghost, the Lodestars remain at their side until they are ready to be guided to the next world.

In a situation where a person believes they will walk the Earth in their afterlife, a false world will be made for them.

Lodestars have animal companions that take care of every animal in the world. Their names also correspond to the alphabet and each is paired to a human Lodestar in reverse order. Meaning Ai has Zi, Bi has Yi, etc.
Unlike humans, animals are returned to the essence of the Earth when demised and aren't officially removed from the plane. They keep the world circulating properly, nature controlled, so to speak.

The Lodestars have the ability to multiply, meaning in order to cover their percentage of the population, each individual Lodestar can have as many as 250 million copies spread across the Earth.

They are not allowed to answer questions involving an individuals death if said individual is a ghost. They generally do not like to speak of their work.

Additional information will be added as they evolve in time. If you have any questions that could further their progess, please ask. :D Or if something confuses you.

Welcome to my writing journal. Here I just post short stories or maybe even disconnected chapters to what's supposed to be one long novelistic attempt... Who knows. No rants or raves go here - Just fiction. Quite possibly rants and raves in the form of fiction but you wouldn't know that, now would you?

This journal is here for the sole collection of my works, including concepts and planning. It's so my ideas don't slip away from me anymore or I lose them in the mess of papers I scribble it on or the text files that find little redemption as time passes.

I am not here to impress anyone. This journal isn't desperately seeking opinion as I normally would with ideas or compositions. They are welcomed but not requested; accepted but not provoked. This is a guiding agglomeration to what could one day be my step stool to recognition. It's a dog-eat-elephant world, you know.

To explain the name, it's based on a song from Breath of Fire IV. I love it. It's playing right now, in fact.

So, to sum this up, this journal will be friends only. I'm making it this way because I know that I can trust my friends not to exploit any of these potential stories. I know that, should they choose to comment, they will express their opinion without hesitation or fear and will not, in short, bullshit me on what they think.

That said, leave a comment, friends, if you'd like to see what I have in mind. I won't be offended if you don't care because I don't either.

~ mikenno