{"id":451,"date":"2025-02-02T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T10:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2024-11-13T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:12:08","slug":"di-diary-necropolis-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/di-diary-necropolis-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"DI. Diary: Necropolis, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;ll tell you about Necropolis and the people who live there.<\/p>\n<p>How would the city of the dead look like? A city that is not administered by netherworldy horrors but by people? In the end, it&#8217;s people who give the city its shape, and people in Necropolis aren&#8217;t your ordinary lot!<\/p>\n<p>First off, they&#8217;re the people of all different cultures and ethnicities; death isn&#8217;t concerned with race. To avoid a Tower of Babel scenario, they all communicate in the same language, or rely on the same supernatural translator (I didn\u2019t want to delve on this too much).<\/p>\n<p>Second, the people who stay in Necropolis either chose to do so, or the afterlife providers refused their admission because of their sins. To clarify, the world of the dead is a transitory place meant to deliver the dead to their afterlives proper\u2014Heaven, Swarga, Vallhala, and some more off-beat options included (more on that later). 95% of the dead are happy to get spirited away and bathe in waterfalls of mead. So, what about those 5% who stayed behind? Some are unsightly types, some are unlucky, and some have something to prove. No matter the case, if they manage to survive in the city&#8217;s capitalistic landscape, they&#8217;re not to be messed with! Think New Yorkers, but meaner.<\/p>\n<p>How would the city of the mean-ass dead look like? Find out soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;ll tell you about Necropolis and the people who live there. How would the city of the dead look like? A city that is not administered by netherworldy horrors but by people? In the end, it&#8217;s people who give the city its shape, and people in Necropolis aren&#8217;t your ordinary lot! First off, they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}