Unlife is still greatly a mystery, despite ages of desperate research by Loremasters and other Essaence-users. It is a force from the the Planes of unlife. It seems that its objective is the absolute elimination off all life on Myaasia,for reasons unknown (the fact that myaasia seems to be a gateway between worlds probably has something to do with it). The Unlife is the force behind most forms of Undead, which it uses as its tools with great efficiency. The relationship between the countless orders of Demons and the Unlife is less clear; some Demons are clearly servants or allies of the Unlife, but many show no such connections to outside observers, even though they all show up “Evil” to various detection magics(due to their close relationship to the Void or the Chaos Planes). It must be said, though, that some of the entities inhabiting the Void are so alien that there are simply no points of comparison with any human motives.

The Unlife can use the Essaence with great skill, though the power it provides to its servants is so tainted with “Evil” that it can rightfully be considered a separate force from the Essaence (some talk of the White Essaence and the Dark Essaence). Anyone tainted by using unlife is so tainted and thus suspectible to more taint and unlife sympaties. Thus anyone using negative energy spells marks themselves as such. This Taint can be detected by those detecting unlife and by unlife itself.

One of the things nonmembers often find hard to understand is how any living being could worship unlife. Of course the reasons are many, but a very common thing is the “anti-death” message the unlife have. People who are afraid of dying try many methods to prolong their existence, even if it means lichhood or such. There are also smaller groups, that are members of the immortal races who see the unlife as kin, being unaging too.