| 1 | * If you haven't prepared well enough for the journey in life, the Underworld is incredibly unpleasant. After you die, ahead of you is a long journey where you face all manner of evil and frightening monsters and demons that want to eat your soul, as well as unwelcoming geography like lakes of fire. Your only hope to succeed through all of that is having the proper spells and other preparations on your corpse, and more often than not the "surviving" dead become evil spirits. |
| 2 | ** One particularly horrific area of the afterlife is the Burning Pits of Duat, a pre-Hell lake of fire overseen by Am-Heh, the Devourer of Millions, a dog-headed God who likes to eat souls |
| 3 | * Apep (Apophis, as the Greeks called him), as a [[EldritchAbomination proto-Lovecraftian]] [[CosmicHorrorStory concept]] in the shape of [[SnakesAreSinister a diabolical snake]], is awful enough on its own, but the few records there are of its conception claim it is Ra's [[BodyHorror umbilical]] [[EvilIsVisceral cord]]. To make matters worse, Apep is '''[[CompleteImmortality completely immortal]]''' because he always [[ResurrectiveImmortality comes back from every death]], no matter how many times Ra destroys him. Humans don't pray to Apep, rather they're worshipping ''[[TheDreaded against]]'' him, hoping that prayers and rituals will hinder the serpent. In the end, [[InvincibleVillain Apep is virtually invincible]], and his temporary defeat is merely delaying the inevitable [[OmnicidalManiac annihilation of all light and life]]. Sweet dreams! |
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