There are 15 afterlives: 3 for each of the elemental gods Fire, Water, Earth, Sky, and Life. Each god has a heaven, a hell, and a purgatory associated with their element.
Heavens
Fire : A glorious hall of golden wrought metal, lit and warmed by a massive, eternally burning fire in its center. Many warriors lift a glass or alcohol and eat delicious roast meat.
Water : A calm garden built upon a serene lake. A series of verdant platforms lush with beautiful sights, smells, and tastes.
Earth : A humble eternal life in a small village of farmers and miners, who easily find all that they need from the land.
Sky : Soaring flight through blue skies and fluffy white clouds. Golden light brings eternal joy.
Life : A place of endless imagination, where creatures and heroes of myth and legend constantly spring to life. Eternal excitement and change would stimulate even the most battle-hardened and cynical of adventurers.
Purgatories
Fire : The body is burned away cleanly in a hot, smokeless flame. Over time, all impurities are burned away from the soul as well.
Water : You hang suspended in an endless column of cool blue water. Something about it reminds you of the womb.
Earth : You wander an endless maze of glittering, useless crystals. Fractured reflections of your own image shift and refracted around you as you walk.
Sky : You hang in the black void of infinite empty space. Perhaps one day you will be blessed by the sight of a passing star.
Life : You wake up again in the ordinary world of the mundane, but in a new body. Or is it the ordinary world? Perhaps this life is a rehearsal, or a test.
Hells
Fire : A place of endless all-consuming fire and smoke. Your body and soul are singed with terrible pain.
Water : You are dashed about by an endless, churning storm in a vast ocean. You feel as if you’re just on the edge of drowning, forever.
Earth : You are buried alive. The weight of the soil crushes upon you as worms begin to devour your flesh.
Sky : You are horribly, bitterly, cold. The wind howls around and through your naked body.
Life : Acid bubbles as you are digested in the belly of a massive, monstrous creature. Eventually you become one, fused with its flesh, joining the other dead as part of a chimera of millions grotesquely welded and melted together.