Eternal Darkness Portal

The eternal darkness portal is somewhere between life and death. When a mortal officially dies, they go to the afterlife. Very few get the very rare event of teleporting into a duplicate of their own body that is formed in the Eternal Darkness Portal where they are in between life and death. When this happens, they are classified as undead. In the afterlife, there is a portal that leads down to the eternal darkness portal, and there is a portal in the eternal darkness portal that leads back up to the afterlife, so the spirits of the dead can choose to spend time in the afterlife or the eternal darkness portal. The undead however cannot go through the portal that leads up to the afterlife since they are not officially dead. The living can enter the eternal darkness portal through a door. The living usually visit the eternal darkness portal to visit or talk to the spirit of a relative, loved one, or someone they knew. They might also visit the eternal darkness portal to visit The Oracle. The living cannot go through the portal that leads to the afterlife, and the spirits cannot go through the door that leads back to the living world. The undead can only go through the door that leads to the living world if a mortal frees them and lets them escape. If an undead being escapes the eternal darkness portal and gets killed again, they become officially dead. However, they cannot be killed by the same way that they were killed before or they will just be sent straight back to the eternal darkness portal. The eternal darkness portal is the closest thing to the afterlife that the living can see while alive and in the living world.