The Wangxiang Terrace
“That is the punishment, and the mercy.”
A Cloud immortal of Diyu
3 known connections · an open question
The living story
The story so far
The Homesickness Terrace: the last high place in the underworld, where the dead climb for one final look back at the living world — the village, the roof, the people still eating dinner without them. The view is perfect. That is the punishment, and the mercy.
Happening now
A soul is climbing the terrace steps right now, slowly, the way they all do. At the top it will look back and see the village lanterns. It will stand there a long time.
What may come
One day a soul will climb the terrace, look back — and be seen looking. Someone in the living world will look up at exactly the right moment, and the two gazes will meet across the divide, and the terrace will have done what it was built to do. It has been waiting for that moment since the first stone was laid.
Connected
Diyu
The ten Yama kings, the Black and White Impermanence, Judge Cui with his brush, Meng Po with her soup of forgetting. Justice here is thorough, the paperwork is eternal, and the bridge out is narrower than you remember.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Cloud
- Court
- Diyu — the Courts of the Underworld
- Rarity
- Common
- Personality
- The Wangxiang Terrace. The Homesickness Terrace: the last high place in the underworld, where the dead climb for one final look back at the living world — the village, the roof, the people still eating dinner without them. The view is perfect.
- Edition
- One of 400
- Stats
- power 40 · speed 10 · charm 93