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If not the christian limbo, then the one from whatever religion this "Decima" is from. The idea of a purgatory or a similar 'waiting room for the souls of the dead' is a common theme in many world religions. The egyptians had one, the greeks had one, the christians have one, obv.- And there's a throughline through many of them.
Stillborn babies go there.
If you were never truly born, whether you're a dead unbaptized christian baby or a mummified egyptian stillborn fetus, a lot of religions say you go to a place of undeath, between the realms. A place for people with no souls, or no true sins. Often you can atone and earn your way into the good afterlife, one way or another - but you'll be at it, generally, for hundreds of years, for whatever reason.
I believe that our actor friends- Mads, Reedus, and Del Toro - Are all people from our world who found their way into purgatory / limbo, one way or another. The technology - Reedus' and Toros' handcuffs, the baby - chamber, this all serves to allow living creatures to transcend the planes of existence and enter the afterlife. I think each person did this differently. Perhaps Reedus and Mads are clones - Bred for battle and made by man, they have no true souls and are thus welcome in Limbo. Perhaps Toros, with his head scars, is some sort of brain trauma / coma victim, thus also perfect for the job. All three enter Limbo via the power of undeath - An unborn fetus, suspended chemically between life and death, the state of each can be altered at will. Somehow the handcuff does the dirty.
Toro still clings to life in the realm of the living. Unlike the two clone soldiers, he is not ready for death, and must journey through the land of the dead with the fetus in tow in order to awaken in his real body. Reedus awakens in the first trailer to see that Toro is no longer cuffed to him, and has taken his child - and perhaps his soul? I believe the baby is linked to Reedus, perhaps it is a clone as well, thus making it easier to bridge the gap allowing transmit into the next realm.
Thus, reedus must follow after Toro, trying to get his baby self-soul back. Mads is another soldier within the same program who went into the upside-down and got all colonel kurtz with some WWII era soldiers.
speaking of the soldiers- And the whales - And everything else, they are all, of course, the many souls who died in battle and did not atone for their sins. Like in Dantes' hell, they shamble about, slowly losing themselves and their minds until one day they might finally transcend. Mads is connecting to them with his soul-umbilical the same way Reedus and toro used theirs to interface with the soul-baby-transporter. the soul umbilical can be used to control things in the environment because all other things within the environment are soulless husks, wandering about, waiting for infinity.
the five angels at the end of the trailer are literally that - five angels, a council sworn to uphold the law of life in a realm of undeath. Seeing Reedus is a puzzling thing. he should not be here. But they watch, not interfering, until they can be the bosses.
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