Midnight Lantern

Long ago, Death held the Midnight Lantern, a light that shone directly into the Nethereal Plane, allowing Death to bring both one's soul as well as shadow up to the Celestial Plane to live out ones afterlife with one's god. But in the first millennia of time, when Alaria was still young, the lantern was stolen, and disappeared, never to be seen again. For this reason, Death can only bring one's soul to the heavens, while your shadow sinks to the Nethereal Plane to be taken by the Absinthe Stone's evil servants.