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= Graverealm: The Filthocracy =

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|name = Graverealm
|tagline = The Filthocracy
|themes = Macabre satire, social decay, purgatorial politics
|relation = One of the Broken Worlds (Probala) within ALLKREA
|conflict = The undead labor class rebels against a delusional aristocracy obsessed with false salvation
}}

== Overview ==
Graverealm lies beneath the surface of all other Earths—a cavernous underworld of perpetual half-death.  
Its citizens are the long-deceased who never found rest, trapped in rotting bodies and bureaucratic servitude.  
They toil endlessly in mines and tunnels, convinced that material wealth and obedience  
will buy them ascension to heaven.  
Above them, the **Filthocracy**, led by its decaying queen, exploits their misery while bargaining with hell itself.

== Core Lore ==
When the souls of the dead ceased moving on, they congealed beneath graveyards and cities,  
forming the subterranean nation of Graverealm.  
Over time, decomposition became culture. Perfume replaced prayer.  
The Filthocracy rose from aristocrats who embalmed their flesh with precious metals,  
believing that jewels and powders could disguise decay enough to fool the divine.  
But each century, the **Minister of the Deep Flame** [PLACEHOLDER] arrives,  
demanding tribute in souls for hell’s factories.  
The Queen complies, arresting her own laborers under false charges to meet quotas.  
A small family of plague-dead miners from the 1918 Spanish Flu [PLACEHOLDER] begins the revolution,  
determined to dism

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