From a few places of strange bearing, the world of the Dead can be reached through the Farstream. The Farstream is a river of grey water..or seemingly of water, yet it runs shallow and the waters churn despite no current. If you would stare into the waters, then you would faces looking back at you, each merged into the others, bodies writhing in a liquid form; for these are the very souls of the Dead, the Dead that lie unclaimed by any of Power in that land.

Throughout the world of the Dead the Fasrsteam flows, and it is made of the souls of those that die; it draws them into it and they blend in muted pain. Those that had belief are signalled to their god, and there are servants amongst the god that fish these spirits out from the waters, catch their souls to become the Eidolon of their god - the host of servants that war and carry out every task needed for their Master in Death.

These Powers, the gods, carve little kingdoms from the world of the Dead, as if they were still in Life, and the bleak rock that forms the land is adorned by their castles and temples, their flock acting out their deaths as they did in life, close to their god and in 'heaven' in their own strange way. War gods war, Death gods gather their folk in paradise in Death as they did not have in Life. Each Power has it's own needs and own version of heaven, and their people are held in regard by their Masters, whilst the others, the ones that held no committal, languish in the Farstream, many for seeming eternity.

Yet there is another force at play in the Dead Lands - the Yaga Dai, and they know no master. The Yaga Dai are said to have been born into the Dead Lands, but some claim to have witnessed them fishing the Farstream. Some view them as the Elves of the Dead, as they see them as Keepers of the vistas of Death. Certainly they are not in bondage to the other Powers - the gods. They come in many forms, and some call themselves the Dragonborn. There are many who wait for eternity, in silence and devoutly follow whatever path they were given, but they act as a balancing factor in the Lands of the Dead, for they do not choose sides in any war between gods, they do not negotiate, yet they do interfere in many other ways.


When the Ghaurchlai took the Dead Lands, the Yaga Dai were not caught as were the gods. They fought and they remained unconquered. Only Tsibi was uncultured of the Powers, and she joined the yoga Dai on the Furthest Shore. Here they held, and then pushed back the Ghaurchlai as the gods were freed by the Unsung of Solace and the boy who led them.

The gods rarely interfere directly in any force in the realms of Life, yet the Yaga Dai do so. Often, they will aid the Living in some way, and they can interfere with the dictates of Fate itself. With the Iryn Than they have come in force, and some say that the gods of Men have given them parts of their Eidolon to aid the Yaga Dai as they guard the Iryn Than. The truth is possibly this simple, but is doubtfully ever so. It is more likely that the Yaga Dai intervene in a time when the fate of the Dragon itself, and thus their own futures, lies in direct jeopardy.

The realms of the Dead and of Life collide, and this is nothing that has come before - the Elohim fly between all places, and they have been seen in Death, but they have come to the aid of humans in Life and in defence of the Lian Elune; the folk of the lake Kingdom. Surely this is the greatest sign of the collision of wandering gyres; the possible fight for the end of the world?