Turbo strolls through the fairly civilized Middle Floors of Skal'garrn, where the middle class actually lives.
Alas, hybrids aren’t particularly welcome there, so all that’s left is to sneak glances at a “normal” world — a world where you don’t have to think about hunting just to survive, peering into the dangerous, long-abandoned depths of the garn.
A sci-fi setting I love is the alien-like mysterious -even eerie and ominous- rooms with fantasy/futuristic technological laboratory and medical features. With floating monitors, buzzing noises, lights, wires, oddly weird equipments and machines and gears all around, and of course, with those big (liquid or whatever) champers and pods! It could be a room for experiment and torture, or just an awesome med bay. Hell, I want to see the whumpee in one of those pods either way!
Turbo has arrived in the UNR and is now near the very base of the wall, somewhere closer to the Middle Floors, where rays of light still manage to peek through.
The base of the wall is massive and majestic.
It also serves as a local cemetery, but more on that later.
TW: Funeral traditions, blood, death
In the UPR, it is believed that the soul of a living being resides in the blood. A creature dies when its blood drains out or deteriorates due to illness.
Therefore, after death, they cut off the head of the deceased and drain the blood so the soul can be released faster.
If this is not done, the soul can get stuck in the dead body and will be extremely displeased.
Fan fact: When the first emigrants arrived in the UNR, they were unaware of local traditions and were horrified that the locals desecrated the bodies of their comrades and didn’t allow them peace even after death. They considered this tradition an act of hostility.
After performing the manipulations to release the soul, the body and blood was burned, the skull cleaned, and along with the ashes it was taken to the local cemetery embedded in the wall.
It is believed that in this way, the ancestors protect their descendants from all misfortunes, literally becoming a wall in front of them.