Editing The Abyss

'''The Abyss''' is a realm that exists somewhere outside the human dimension. It is the home and prison to [[The Corrupted]]. Sometime in The Abyss, there was a war between The Corrupted and their slaves. It is assumed that the Corrupted won this war. During this war, a [[Terror Mask|weakened spirit]] managed to escape The Abyss and entered the human world.

In [[Splatterhouse (2010)]], doorways into the the Abyss can be opened through human sacrifices. One such example is when the Terror Mask used its host, [[Rick Taylor]], to sacrifice ten thousand lives in order to open a portal.

The Abyss was first seen in [[Splatterhouse 2]], where it is depicted as the land of the dead. It is identified in the Japanese manual as a specific place where particular rebellious beings are contained as an everlasting purgatory. The seal on it in [[Shin Splatterhouse]] was opened by Rick to return [[Jennifer Willis|Jennifer]] to the real world, although monsters leaked from it and led to the events of [[Splatterhouse 3]]. [[Dr. Henry West|West's]] writings refer to it as the void in both games, and the Terror Mask is at odds with the Evil One, so it is likely the same world.

==Triva==

In the works of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft], he uses the word "abyss" multiple times. This could be where the writers of Splatterhouse (2010) got the name from, as they took several Lovecraft inspired themes.