Interstice

The Interstice is the layer of existence between the physical world and the astral world.

In the Interstice, creatures of dream and nightmare are alive, born by the subconscious will of humans. Here also reside the elves and elementals of ancient times as well as humans who have gained further knowledge of the nature of the universe (such as witches and wizards). Humans who have a firm hold on the physical realm cannot interact or even sense the beings in the Interstice.

The Interstice is where one can find the Mansion of the Spirit Tree and the nightmare realm of the Qliphoth. Guts and Casca, due to their status as branded survivors, also have to exist in the Interstice.


 * Places Within The Interstice:

A border-realm within the Interstice, between the Human and Astral worlds. As the Spirit Tree represented the light, inhabited by those within the shells of the light emanating from the power of "God", and the Qliphoth is the opposition to the tree of life inhabited by those donning the husks of impurity and bathing in darkness born from the nightmares and subconscious of humans, and gather together based on the evil affinity of their Od, segregating themselves from creatures of light such as Elves. Slan had used her powers as a God Hand to warp and corrupt a wooded area with a small network of caves into the Qliphoth, a beacon that led countless sinister apparitions of the Astral plane to flock towards her evil Od, basically creating the same effect as Guts' brand only in a location instead of a person. She appears to Guts in the Qliphoth by embodying the intestines of the slain when he reached the central point in the depths of the caves.
 * Qliphoth