 At the Academy , the player enters a portal to the Astral Plane where they meet <unk> , the former god of the dead . <unk> reveals that the spirit @-@ eater “ curse " originated as a punishment for his former servant , Akachi " The Betrayer " , who once led a crusade against the realm of the dead . Akachi ’ s empty and hungering soul now resides in the player ’ s body , and the player ’ s own soul has been displaced to the Wall of the Faithless , in the realm of the dead . 
