Editing Creatures of Light and Darkness (section)

===Places===
The geography of this universe contains several curious places:
* The House of Life, ruled by [[Osiris]], contains a room in which Osiris has reduced various people in his past into furnishings. These furnishings can speak (or scream) via wall-mounted speakers.
** A skull (with brain) for a paperweight.
** An enemy whose nervous system is woven into a rug. Osiris enjoys jumping on the rug.
*In the House of the Dead, numerous dead people of the Six Intelligent Races lie on invisible catafalques until Anubis requires them to go through the motions of pleasure—eating, drinking, dancing, making love—without any real enjoyment. Anubis likes to watch. He also stages fights between champions from the Six Races: sometimes the victor gets a job—and a name.
* The planet Blis is filled to bursting with people who are inexhaustibly fertile and do not know death: the whole planet is covered with 14 interlocking cities. Indeed, one man agrees to commit suicide in front of an audience, for money to be given to his family, because most people on Blis have never seen a death. He does so by [[self-immolation]], after receiving the Possibly Proper Death Litany (also called the Agnostic's Prayer). 
* On fog-shrouded D'donori, warlords raid each other solely to capture prisoners, who will be vivisected by the town scryer, or [[augur]]. By examining their entrails, he predicts the future and answers questions.
* On an unnamed planet, the sea is above the atmosphere. Here, the Prince Who Was a Thousand keeps [[Nephthys|Nephytha]], his wife, who was disembodied and cannot survive on a normal planet.
* In a cave, a dog worries a glove that has seen better centuries. The three-headed canine is apparently [[Cerberus]].
* On another planet, drug-maddened spearmen protect and [[castrated]] priests worship a pair of old shoes.