The Deathless Realm

The Deathless Realm, small realm floating between other realms of existence, hidden from other realms.

This realm was created by an extremely unusual entity, combination for an unlucky transmuter,  artifact for creating pocket realms and failed warding of druids that created the abomination of magic, metal and nature, which now hides in her tiny realm looking for peace.

The realm is not as alien as some, you will find swamps and forests here, planes and deserts, but you also will find great cities and temples, dedicated to the creator and ruler of the realm.

And it's rather nice, food is common, water is clean and minerals and woods are a plenty, but there are rules one must follow,
The three crimes that are considered most disgraceful here, in the realm of life, are:
Murder
Incest
Rape
(List might be expanded)
.....................Punishment for Murder....................
If this crime is committed, powerful spell that surrounds the realm is activated, casing killer to help victim to be reborn - literary. If killer is female, they become pregnant with the victim, giving birth to them alive once more. If killer is male, they are turned into a female by this spell for the duration of pregnancy.

Those who go forth and confess that they killed someone to one of the "Deathless realm healers" - sort of local cult, gets an easier punishment - pregnancy is speed up and victim is born size of a baby and grow rapidly days after being reborn

If killer does not confess, pregnancy is of normal length and instead of normal size baby, d6 days after due date, victim is grown to size they were when they died and are born afterwards...

If multiple murders were committed, multiple pregnancies will occur, if number is too high - children will be born in litters.
.....................Punishment for Incest...............
Those who commit this unnatural crime are arrested by the "Deathless Realm healers" and put into the penitent service, helping with hardest works they have and will work like that for up to few years, that which point they either return to there home or become one of the healers themselves.

....................Punishment for Rape.................
As this realm has no death sentence those who commit it, regardless of gender, usually take to the prison of green stone...And no one is quite sure what is done to there people...
.......................Short story of the realm.................................

Realm started as an empty space in a small spherical dimension pocket, but it's creator wanted a place to reside in, they took a peace of stone from the elemental plane of earth, some plants from worlds from different realms, some water from elemental plane of water and so on, until they had a small planet floating in the sphere. After getting some radiant light from the tear in positive plane, this tiny realm received it's last addition - some sentient races and animals from all over the multiverse - but tragedy stuck as some "Heros" came and slaughtered the "Vile" realm dwellers.

This made the creator of here little peaceful corner really sad, but she tried again - so she took tougher people this time, but again "heros" came and "saved" them all...

For the third time time this ruler of the plane took matters into her own hands, directly taking small numbers of races none would miss - monsters and outcasts. She then worked alongside them directly, helping them bolster there numbers with both rituals and magical constructions she acquired from a mad wizard that now resided in her realm. With time the realm grew and now great cities and forests, swamps and deserts came into existence as each of the races that reside here took up corner of the realm they liked the best.

And to make sure the realm stays calm, all who reside in it agreed to make the rules that must be follow and helped to make wardings that now guard the realms inhabitants...

(Creator and her two helpers?)


(Factions and cults)
>The cult of rebirth
The cult was formed by someone that found that through certain means they could pass on some trait to the person they were re-birthing into the world. The cult try to find member with desirable trait to be chosen to rebirth the rest of the cult.
Here have something about how I think a branch of the cult of rebirth would function as an organization :
>Down period
During that period members are encouraged to try develop new trait that can be passed down or recruit/have a child with someone who has that trait.
>The contest
Members present their findings to the leaders of the cult you selection the best to be the next generation Parent(If the chosen isn't of age, they'll wait until they are before proceeding) then celebration.
>The first birth
Since during such a large scale pregnancy the new Parent might be vulnerable, the champion of the cult are sacrificed(and reborn) first to be the Parent. On they're reborn celebration.
>The grand rebirth
After that the rest of the cult is scarified, while the first reborn protect the Parent during her pregnancies. Once it's over there is a final celebration before returning to a down period.


>The cult of Unbirth
Offshoot of the cult of rebirth, created after one of it's member found they could establish a symbiotic link with the one in their womb. As result they try to keep rebirthing member as long(and as close to their per-sacrifice age) as possible in their womb. The leader only pass their capacity to trusted lieutenant.

For the symbiosis I thought about the lore first as for mechanically I don't know if you can make a full class out of it.
You could either take the route of the creature in the womb can use spell and abilities as it were the mother(line of sight).
For a more balance way the mother could use spell and/or abilities of the one in the womb(a certain number of time depending on level or how far along the pregnancy is)



(Realms oddities)
Disease idea sounds interesting could be some philosophy of one of the groups there (Like part of the healers that act as this places soldiers think it should be done this way and thus they make so disease no longer hurts but you have to live with it)

As for creation of life - yeah there are many ways to do it and mutations some local inhabitants could get would be interesting.

Also it could be this planes sort of villainous deed (in eyes of others) - they send people to realms that are empty and devoid of life to pretty much populate them, so yeah they could get in trouble that way.