Prakata

The village of Prakata is a settlement within the Ciber Bannerlands, built upon unique conjunction of geomantic nodes. Those who consider Prakata their home are called Praka.

Si Hu - The Lake of the Dead
While not a physical lake, the Lake of the Dead is what most people call the pooled geomantic reservoir which gives Prakata its supernatural qualities. For the thirty miles surrounding the heart of the twin geomantic nodes, what scholars call 'the island within the lake', a person's death does not result in their immediate passage to afterlife. Instead, these geomantic energies cause a person's soul to be tethered to the village and to be made manifest as a ghost. Unlike most such spirits, Praka ghosts are physical entities comprised entirely of yin energy.

While the effects of the geomantic energies on living persons is not completely known, all evidence suggests that the living may exist in relative harmony with the unliving.