Thread:Gorzill/@comment-4001163-20141214171944/@comment-4960835-20150910091827

Much what the Waptorian Spirit Forest represents. The Spirit Forest is basically a pocket universe that is the representation of the Waptoria Group-Mind (think of the Black Garden). It is not as much as an actually existing fysical "thing" as a "plane" shaped out of their thoughts, constantly evolving, growing, adapting as more and more people are being birthed/absorbed into the Waptoria (and their group-mind as a result). The Waps can't acess this garden in life but it is their shared consciousness where their dreams (at least the important ones) take place. The Waps also believe it to be the doorway to the various afterlives of the races within the Alliance, though the spirits of fallen Bio-Soldiers are said to just go to the Forest to help nurture it.

Just as Accel Space is what you could do with the coin, the Waptoria Spirit Forest would be what could potentially grow within the hollowness of that coin (the Void), to give true life in something that empty.

Abyss-Spawn, to the Waptoria, cannot be truly called life. They are much like shades in a way, existing yet not really existing. Constantly weaving plots, perhaps, but meaningless plotting because this is simply basal instinct, not true intelligence. Cursed by an unforgiving realm to spend their their existence drifting, hollow, meaningless, truly having no purpose, every thought a mere phantom, amounting only to nothing.

OK, I admit I probably read the Tome of Decay/Exess/Blood/Fate a couple of times too many. Worth a read, though, and, at least to me, defenitely helpfull when it comes to realms, it's inhabitants, and the like.