Unbesenged
Origins
The failure for an improper cremation may see one become an imprisoned spirit in Scref, but there is a worse fate for a follower of Obrus. If the cremation does not occur, the soul settles into the body and becomes inseparable from it. As the body decays, so too does the soul and so in Scref the soul manifests as an ‘unbesenged’.
In the frozen wastes that surround Scref there is a pit. A dark place within which the unburnt are thrown by the servants of the Great Owl. In contrast to those souls imprisoned within Scref, the binding of soul and body maintains both, but at great cost. As the icy frost and fiery geysers wear at the corpse, the pain of survival in this plane warps the mind and flesh. The grotesque visages of these creatures makes them unidentifiable and with their loss of identity, their minds too become fixated.
Should a soul escape its imprisonment, they will find themselves a beacon for the burning gazes of the unbesenged that wander nearby. They will tear the soul apart, envious of its fragile purity yet tortuously unable to obtain it. As the soul dissipates into nothing, the unbesenged are only driven further into their madness.
Appearance
In terms of appearance, the unbesenged are typically presented as contorted humanoids with horribly disfigured with features, melted by the fiery geysers and then frozen by the frigid winds. As time passes, they take on the appearance of Scref itself, frost coating their skin and clothes or blue fire burning in their eyes or on their bodies.