Looking for [oWoD] Wraith:the Oblivion players

[Morgia]

Ok people... here is my problem: I have played White Wolf pen&paper RPGs for ages (that being V:tM, V:tDA, some W:tA and C:tD for me). Now I let myself be talked into GMing a Mage:the Ascension group although I've never played the system myself and I have to read a whole lot of books for this one.
Since I made a single Mage Character for myself before but was only able to play her in a one-shot adventure and I was intrigued by Entropy magic since it seemed to be fairly Paradox-easy on beginners. Not too many vulgar effects if you tamper with fate and chances.
So I decided to start an all-Euthanatos campaign that I set in Severodonetsk, Ukraine since I figured that after the fall of the Soviet Union the Technocracy should have lost a lot of its grip on the eastern block. Also to make it easy for my players in the beginning, since none of them has any experience with the system either.

But now I noticed the hook in the plot: Euthanatos obviously all have to experience a near-death experience or actually a trip into the Underworld for their initiation into the Tradition. Great. I know about most of the WoD universe, since I've been a real fan of Clans Tremere, Lasombra and Redcaps..... but I don't have a single clue about what it's like in the Underworld (or Dark Umbra as Mages and Werewolves call it). White Wolf Wiki isn't much of a help here, since all it basically says is, that a lot in there was left to the individual GM to describe as he/she saw fit. http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Underworld_%28oWOD%29 here's the link to the description there. But as far as I could figure that out the sea of souls is basically just too big to ever see the whole picture and that the most important part in there for western souls would most likely be Stygia with the big Onyx Tower and Charon (who seems to be missing?) as a ruler.

I really don't own any of the Wraith:the Oblivion books so I was hoping that maybe someone in here could give me a clue what it's like to be a wraith and what people from outside will most likely see there.

Ah yes... and I'd also be thankful for anime (or any series or movie) suggestions that may give me some clues for my campaign (and please don't start with Nightwatch... everyone in my group's seen and mostly liked that one. And put Bleach where the sun doesn't shine.)

[froody1911]

Uh, yeah. This goes in Gaming, under General Discussions.

[Morgia]

"Quoting your signature"

This is not about any computer or console game and I doubt that people who frequent the gaming board would even have heard about what I am talking right now... this is really about the concept of the Underworld and how - hopefully - people can tell me how their respective GMs fleshed it out

[TMRNetShark]

"Quoting your signature"

This is not about any computer or console game and I doubt that people who frequent the gaming board would even have heard about what I am talking right now... this is really about the concept of the Underworld and how - hopefully - people can tell me how their respective GMs fleshed it out

Harsh and that's no one to get an answer your looking for.

Secondly, I play D&D table top... The way I (as a GM) flesh out the Underworld is that if you or your group stay in one place, you are going to get overrun. So the group has to constantly be moving and killing off enemies as you go. The Underworld has a hot ashy rock floor that you can constantly feel the heat from. There are towers upon towers of lava flowing in from the sky, slowly engulfing anything around it as it flows down. There are beasts of all manners roaming the plains while the sky is a thick ash cloud with Overlord like creatures silhouetting the ash clouds. To the horizon is the black sun with bursts of fire around it's edges against an orange background. This is truly hell.

So if you want to take something from that, be my guest.

[Morgia]

The Baatezu or Tanar'ri planes in D&D (and yes, I've played my share of D&D as well) are a long way from the Dark Umbra in WoD... it's not a hell-like underworld obviously but rather a really sad and dreadful place where Wraiths (as in the souls of people that died with unfulfilled purpose) live in some kind of rigid society (where I don't know the rules because I don't have any of the background *sigh*) and if they're not considered useful anymore their souls are forged into items of daily need like cobblestones, bricks, chainlinks etc. and that is only if they don't succumb to their own Angst and become spectres or to their own Shadow and haul themselves into Oblivion first...

So I'm interested in the following parts: is it even commonly known among wraiths that there are more Islands in the Sea of Souls than their own little corner? Those different places wage war against one another? What about the Far Shores? How would Wraiths even react to incoming outsiders such as Shapeshifters or Magi?