Parapet

The Parapet
The wall or bulwark that separates the terrestrial world from the other-worlds, the parapet began to manifest during the European Bronze Age and grew steadily until it reached its peak during the Enlightenment. The Parpet has no physical presence in physical space. Rather than being something sensed or seen, it obscures spiritual awareness and psychic sensitivity to anything not of pure mundane terrestrial origin.

From the other-worlds, the Parapet appears as a shadow, fog, or shroud on the edge of the horizon that thickens into a cold grey wall stretching into the clouds when reached. Paths or roads lead up to gates in the Parapet which are maintained through powerful fae spells and a constant infusion of both terrestrial mana and ephemeral essence.

The Parapet is a realm all until itself in which spirits can become trapped. Parapsychologists call it limbo or the sheol. It is not, however, part of the underworld or underworlds. Ghosts are lost souls fettered to the terrestrial world and caught in the Parapet unable to return to the Cycle or enter an underworld.