Rapanui

Rapanui, otherwise known as the 'Island of the Stone Statues' or the 'Island of Death' is a barren, triangular shaped, island off the Pasifikan plateau. There are no trees left and the island is riddled with caves, mostly on the coast. The island is covered in grasses and rocky outcrops. Large statues called moia, are grouped around the island, most standing upright in groups but others discarded where they fell. Several incomplete ones lie at the center of the island where they were quarried out of the volcanic rock.

The skeletal remains of the original inhabitants can be found in caves that are scattered around the island's coast. It is believed that the skektons in each cave belonged to the same tribe.

The island, from the reef line in is a permanent place of death which gives those sensitive to death a permanent 'death-buzz' while they are on it. Even the ancestral spirits here are spirits of death.

The only animals on the island are birds, most of which roost on the rocks that lie just off the coast. They avoid the island itself because of the death effect. The Pasifikans know of this place and used to treat it as tapu, not allowing any landings there. Any that have landed have either not returned or have been driven insane. Recently the tapu has been lifted as this island is now seen as a place where the living can commune with the dead through special ceremonies. Even so, those that go there require special permission from their local chief or shaman.

What occupies the island are undead, mostly incorporials such as ghosts, wraiths and wights, and even the odd revenant, being the remains of those people who were trapped here, and endlessly fighting wars of survival. Unlike most places, the death aura allows the incorporials to survive in full sunlight and they will attack any living creatures they encounter in order to feed on their life force. All the undead here are also affected by the death field and they are all considered death aspected. None of them can be commanded or controlled by any visiting necromancer. Also, even if any of them are killed, they will reform at the next dusk.

At the centre of the island , surrounded by a ring of moia, resides a lich, the remains of a once powerful priest of Rangi and Papa, as well as being a necromancer. Unlike the rest of the undead, he will talk and will assist but will require a price, usually some of the requester's lifeforce, the price depending on the request. This is the only entity that can control any of the resident undead.

Some of the moia can be animated to move by spirits that were Binders who knows the appropriate spells and rituals and are aligned to the tribe who originally built them. They cannot gain control of a moia that was not built by their ancestors.