Between the living worlds and the alleged world that awaits us after we die, there exists a transportation network called the Breath Tragger. This network works non-stop to deliver Shades to their various destinations, and in doing such, recycles their life essences and keeps the balance of the universe. However, like all transportation systems, the Breath Tragger is not without its flaws. Sometimes, more often when races are warring, the Breath Tragger becomes congested. It is during this time that the greedy Black Shuck likes to surface. Like a sticky-fingered child eyeballing candy, it hungrily selects Shades to serve its own purposes.

The Black Shuck can be described succinctly as an infinite pocket dimension. It is not known exactly how, but the Black Shuck manages to pluck Shades out of the Breath Tragger before they are able to reach their final destinations, thereby upsetting the natural flow. The captured Shades are tossed into the dimension of Black Shuck, awakening in a place referred to as Limbo.

There are many theories as to why the Black Shuck is capturing and holding onto Shades. The most popular one is the belief that the Black Shuck is building an army; an army so powerful that it will be able to usurp the entire universe. Whether it is creating an army or not, the demise of the universe seems inevitable if the Shade theft continues.

With each passing moment, the balance of the universe tips ever so slightly in the Black Shuck's favour as it continuously rips Shades from the Breath Tragger. Now that you've died on your world and have been ensnared by the Black Shuck's fierce jaws, please ask yourself one question: are you going to let this Shade plundering continue?

So you have gone and gotten yourself killed. Or perhaps you died peacefully in your sleep. Whatever your story may have been, it doesn't really matter - you're dead now.

Black Shuck is not Hell. Nor is it Heaven. Of course, you may come across some in your travels that will try to argue this with you. So what exactly is Black Shuck then? To put it simply, The Shuck is an infinite world. A realm where all dead souls collect once they have lived out their lives.

Some may find Black Shuck not much different from the world which they parted from. Forests, mountains, cities, cars, trains, planes... they all belong to The Shuck. However, what they may find disturbing is the way that time loops. Days repeat themselves. The weather never changes. If it rains at 5:09 PM over the town square; it will rain over the town square at that exact same time... every single day. Like a broken record, Black Shuck is doomed to forever repeat.

The only beings that are free from this infinite loop are Black Shuck's inhabitants. Unlike the world which they now belong to, they are free to make their own choices and to do something new every day if they so please. They may grow. Explore. Learn. Teach. All things that they may have done when they were living.

All newly deceased begin their journey in Limbo. It is here where most tend to make friends, meet long lost relatives, and where they decide what they are going to do with the rest of their afterlives.

Once upon a time.. you died.

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