Editing The Wyzard Setting Essays (section)

=== The Hungry Man ===
The world's psychopomp and most widely recognized deity of death.  He appears as a huge but emaciated gnoll, with spidery limbs and a big sack over one shoulder.  When a being dies, and the corpse is not properly disposed of, their soul is collected by the Hungry Man and taken away to the Empty Lands, a featureless gray wasteland of infinite size.  He curses the dead with his own endless and insatiable hunger, so that they spend eternity tearing at each other's substanceless flesh in an attempt to fill the utter emptiness within.  It is occasionally possible for unusually clever and determined souls to somehow find their way back to the world from the lands of the dead.  However, their hunger follows them, thus resulting in the strong tendency of the undead to desire the flesh, blood, or life energy of the living.