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A specific form of the afterlife, a nexus where [[Our Souls Are Different|souls/hearts/spirits]] go to die, and sometimes where they come from. This is sometimes implied to be a physical place, or maybe in another dimension. In Western media, has parallels to Eastern religion aside from occasional [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|artsy substitutions]], and a very good way to refer to the concept of life and death when a series may not allow you do to so without offending [[Media Watchdog
The [[Trope Namer]] is ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''.
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* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' mythos, the Force is described as working like this, and characters who die are often described as becoming "one with the Force."
* In ''[[Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within|Final Fantasy the Spirits Within]]'', the Earth is described as having a Gaia which is essentially the Lifestream from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' with a different name.
* In ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', the spirits of the departed live on inside
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The "Rebirth Into Death" setting in ''All Flesh Must Be Eaten'' poses that all life is ultimately part of one overarching source of life. In the beginning, living creatures were born randomly, but once humanity evolved, some souls retained their consciousness after death and figured out how to rig the life force (effectively creating chains of reincarnation). They stopped paying attention to it when some of their number worked out how to get into Paradise, and the system is breaking down - life energy is now going into corpses. Cue the [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
* ''[[Exalted]]'': Creation always have the number of souls necessary to animate living beings in it, since the Ewer of Soul always provide exactly that much. The problem that
** Note that there's no Lifestream in a traditional sense; souls normally reincarnate, thus they enter Creation but doesn't leave it. The only way souls meet [[Final Death]] is by falling into Oblivion. The Neverborn want to [[Omnicidal Maniac|toss everything, themselves included]], into Oblivion.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' have the (rather poorly-defined) Incarnum. It's either soul or [[Life Energy]], and the lack of it causes stillbirth. Which happened when a dragon by the name [[Big Bad|Ashardalon]] sat on
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