The Mortem Doors

The Mortem doors are a set of doors that act as a pathway between the underworld and the overworld. They are guarded by a demon named Morath.

Description
The Mortem Doors stand at twelve feet tall. They are made of solid iron, and heavily engraved. The Underworld side is carved with iconography of the layers of the underworld. The Overworld side features an unknown goddess on the left door and Morath on the right door. They have no handles, no jamb, and no hinges.

Location
The Mortem Doors reside in the middle of a crater in Northeast Forengard. The crater is a mile wide and about half a mile deep. The land is desolate:  nothing lives there except Morath and a couple of crows.

Function
The Mortem doors are the only known gateway between the underworld and the overworld. They allow the dead to come back to the land of the living, under certain conditions.
 * 1) The doors are strictly for those who have unfinished business in the overworld.
 * 2) Whoever passes through the doors has one week to return through them, or their soul will be lost forever. Exceptions can be made at Morath’s discretion.
 * 3) Those who pass through have The Mark of Death visible on them. This appears as a glowing red light marking their cause of death. For example, if someone was stabbed and died from that, that stab wound would glow and leak red light.
 * 4) Those who pass through are given “life energy.” This energy substance can be given, taken, traded and stolen, even from the living. This is likely the “glowing red light” that all those who pass through show.
 * 5) Morath ultimately controls who passes through. They give, and then they can take away.

Morath
Don’t make them angry.