Death

Known as the "Threefold Death"

Death on Boreal consist of three major stages: As important as the above philosophy is for death, just as important are the mechanics and physical aspects of each of these three stages:
 * The first is when the body ceases to function; When your heart beats its last beat.
 * The second is when your body is laid to rest; Through proper burial or by turning to ash.
 * The third and final stage is when you are no longer remembered; When all who are alive have forgotten your name.
 * The first stage is what we know as a traditional death, something physical stops and our bodies can no longer support natural life. Either from disease, injury, or old age, this is the death we all know.
 * The second stage is often the shortest as long as those in life who were close to the individual give them proper burial rites. The body must either be laid down and buried or burnt to ash. If it is not than the person will return in a state of undeath (often known as a Draug), a shell of their former selves, rendered deaf, mute, and hobbled. These shambling forms will attempt to perform whatever duties that had in life, though poorly, and will eventually degrade into skeletal husks until finally fading into dust.
 * The third and final stage is that of the spirit, though unable to perceive or interact with the living and physical world in their spectral state they are able to possess various physical objects and even other living things (known as Bogles). Once they have possessed something, they are unable to leave their possession until it is destroy, killed, or the possession is removed by a form of blessing or magic. This possession also ends when they are no longer remembered by the living.

One the spirit has finished the third and final stage of death, they are able to find peace and fade into the Celestial Null.