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== The Labyrinth ==


Hidden in the spirit world, in its darkest and hardest approach, is the Labyrinth. The exact shape of the labyrinth is unique to each individual, but it is always a gloomy and rambling place that threatens the traveler with countless traps, delusions, and dangers. Its walls are carved with patterns that bring to life the dreamer’s unconscious fears and the daydreams he has not dared to confess to himself.
 
The labyrinth is populated by ‘shadows’ and ‘beasts’ which are both reflections of the traveller. Shadows have no physical form, but they carry with them a trait or side of mortal character that the wanderer has rejected in his life. They thirst for the character's vitality and try to absorb it completely. If the shadow succeeds it will overwhelm the character's mind so that as the character wakes up after a rite of sleep, the shadow will continue the character's life. The mortal may play his character normally, but this encounter has, in some way, irreversibly taken a step forward in the direction he once despised or hated.
 
Beasts, on the other hand, do have a form - they look like a cross between the traveler and an animal. Their aim is also to crush the will of the wanderer. If they succeed, the wanderer will lose the light of his mind for at least some time and sink into madness. In the midst of madness, the wanderer usually imagines himself to be a complete animal and acts purely under the animal instincts. The mortal mind is permanently shaken, and the traveller will be subject to intermittent bursts of madness for the rest of his life.