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Death's Domain is a realm outside of space and time. This is where Death lives together with his manservant Albert and his horse Binky. Almost everything in Death's Domain is in different shades of black where it isn't deep purple or shroud-white. Lilies grow in abundance and perfume the air. A later addition are the fields of billowing corn blowing in a non-existent wind, which remind the Reaper Man to take good care of the harvest.

The main house, from the outside appears to much like any other home though once inside the differances are obvious. As well at the expected black with skull motif, size and scale are out of perspective. The inside is larger than the outsize.

In addidtion to the normal bedroon kitchin and bathroom Death's house also contains the Library and the Room of Lifetimers with it's extra section for supernatural entities.

[edit] Death's library

Death, like most passionate about their job, likes to keep a record. Death's library, which is peculiar in more than one aspect, serves as a kind of record of the Discs living (and non-living) population.

The library is unique in several respects;

Firstly, its collection consists entirely of biographies. As a record of all living (and dead) creatures, the library is huge and old, so huge that inside the library space and time are merely suggestions, not in any kind of way rules or laws... It's so old, that among the earliest works are stone tablets and wood carvings. Secondly, the books in the 'more recent' library are constantly writing themselves, describing the lives of their subjects. Some are short, sad little books, some are expanded into multi-volume grimoires (or, in the case of Albert, still expanding). Books in the older sections of the library are silent, their subjects long dead.

Before Mort came along, the only regular reader was Ysabell, who liked to read romantic stories about princes and princesses. Now once more, the books lay there, quietly scribbling among themselves, plotting out the lives of those that live on the Disc. The library will work as long as Death himself works, until great A'tuin reaches the end of his journey and the Disc comes to an end.

[edit] Annotation

A recurring theme in occult and spiritualist belief is that of the Akashic Records, which are visualised as an immensely vast, though not infinite, library recording the individual life histories of everything that has ever lived, anywhere. Even Christianity, a religion usually keen to twitch its skirts away from anything it regards as occult or ungodly, has an echo of this belief. Note the concept of the Recording Angel, personified as St. Peter who, acording to tradition, meets the newly-deceased at the Gates of Heaven, consults the book, and tells you, based on the record of your life, whether you are getting in or not. This is based on the Book of Life in Revelations, which contains the charge-sheet and mitigating circumstances for every human on Earth. Mystics and visionaries such as Swedenborg, Edgar Cayce, Madame Blavatsky, Dion Fortune, even Betty Shine and Doris Stokes, are united in asserting that the Akashic Record exists and can be accessed. Edgar Cayce, a man with full lending rights to this library, literally saw a library with an individual book for each person: it even had its (alas, human) Librarian, who helped him locate the trickier records.

The Library in Death's domain appears to be there for completion's sake, rather than as an aid to Judgement - well, if every other world in the Multiverse has an Akashic Record, why not the discworld?