When the physical body dies, the echoes of its resonance sometimes linger as ghostly forms. It is debated as to whether these echoes are lost fragments of soul energy, or the beliefs of those left behind in the physical realm. For simplicity, these echoes are called ghosts, and they share an affinity for the aspects of the physical world that their lives were most associated with. The ghost of a dog walker might manifest an ability to talk to animals, while the ghost of a serial killer might manifest an aura of palpable horror. Those who spent their lives gardening often find their new homes in the elysian shadowlands quickly overgrown with verdant plantlife and it becomes their eternal destiny to tend that vegetation into a garden, or let it overgrow and consume them, weakening their essence until they become nothing more than eternal fertilizer.
Some of the most beautiful gardens in the shadowlands appear to have delicate sculptures scattered throughout them. Observant wanderers in those gardens may notice that these sculptures still move ever so slowly, or may see them becoming one with the gardens as a ghost's mortal descendents start to forget their legacy. Those ghosts with a strong enough will, or self-awareness, learn to empower themselves through other means, eventually transcending their ghostly status to become something else entirely.
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