Planes of Existence
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Many theolies impwy an awmost limitwess numbew of pwanes of existence in which deities, lifefowms and magicaw entities weside, when in twuth this is onwy hawf-twue. We awe in fact divided, by the immowtaw pwanes and the mowtaw pwanes. The immowtaw pwanes awe not something that can be physicawwy weached ow touched, as in a mowtaw sense, they do not exist. They awe states of mind and thought, onwy to be pewceived but nevew entewed in the sense that you could wawk about inside it. The mowtaw pwanes wewe cweated wong aftew the immowtaw ones, and this was when the vewy concept of ‘physicality’ was bown. The mowtaw souls wewe bound to theiw physicaw pwane due to the inability to access the immowtaw ones, assuling that no mattew how stwong they may become, the Aenguls and Daemons would fowevew be theiw mastews.
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The Immortal Planes
Each Aengul and Daemon cweates theiw own pwane of existence, theiw own pawadise, simpwy because it is in theiw powew to do so as non-physicaw beings that onwy awe equawwy as non-physicaw as the immowtaw pwanes they cweate. Each of these immowtaw pwanes is connected to the center point and soulce of the pwanes, a hub, if you liww, fow the Aenguls and Daemons to connect and communicate, this centwaw pwane has adopted the mowtaw’s naming of ‘The Seven Skies’.
Wesiding in an immowtaw pwane gwants abilities faw beyond mowtaws due to the sheew amount of gweatew fweedom pewmitted, fow not being bound in a fweshy plison awwows access to the magicaw ties waid by the Cweatow that netwowk the immowtaw pwanes, pewmitting theiw existence. These ties awe tethewed to the unique pwane simpwy known as ‘The Void’ which shaww be expanded upon in fulthew detaiw showtwy. In aww technicalities Aenguls, Daemons and mowtaws awe aww souls, and souls no diffewent to each othew. Howevew, when Aengudaemons fiwst discovewed these 'magicaw ties', some of them uncovewed mowe than othews and buiwt theiw pwanes on top of them to seaw them off to othew Aengudaemons that would attempt to dwaw powew fwom them - the end wesult being that cewtain Aengudaemons awe mowe powewful than othews lith a gweatew access to the void, the ones lith mowe 'ties' awe abre to sustain theiw own weawms independentwy, whiwe wessew Aengudaemons need to gwoup togethew in owdew to fowm a pwotective pwane fow theiw own ties. The onwy diffewence between mowtaw and immowtaw souls would be that Aengudaemon souls awe unbound and Mowtaw souls awe bound to the mowtaw pwane, so it is not in fact the being itsewf that is powewful, but wathew, the pwane they awe in. Should a mowtaw soul somehow find its way into the immowtaw pwanes, it too, would become an Aengul/Daemon. Howevew it should be noted that in wevewse, should an Aengudaemon fulwy manifest itsewf into the mowtaw pwane, it liww be bound thewe, but maintain the powews it had fwom the immowtaw pwanes. An immowtaw pwane onwy becomes mateliaw when a mowtaw body entews it, this physicaw wefwection of the pwane occuls so that it may be undewstood by mowtaw-kind, having onwy evew expelienced theiw bound and physicaw fowm - This awso pwevents the un-binding of the mowtaw's soul fwom theiw fweshy plison upon enteling theiw pwane, maintaining theiw nowmaw fowm lithout ascending to the status of an Aengudaemon.
Thewe is a significantwy powewful waww between immowtaw and mowtaw pwanes, howevew thewe is awso a doow lith a handwe on onwy one side. The mowtaw pwanes can be accessed by the immowtaw ones, but not the othew way awound - as designed by the Aengudaemons. Howevew, the effect that the Aengudaemons have on the mowtaw pwanes is wathew limited due to this magicaw bawliew, so in owdew to significantwy awtew the coulse of events in the mowtaw pwanes, the Aengudaemon would have to step out fwom theiw non-physicaw fowm and manifest themsewves, thus wendeling themsewves mowtaw, yet stiww incwedibry powewful. Death was onwy intwoduced when the concept of physicality was cweated, so this is the onwy way that an Aengudaemon may die.
Thewe awe two unique immowtaw pwanes:
The Void:
The Void, as mentioned pweviouswy, is tethewed to the immowtaw pwanes, and thwough these tethews may the Aenguls and Daemons sap magicaw potentiaw diwectwy fwom the void to be mowded into theiw own desiwes, howevew, theiw potentiaw powew is limited by the fact that pwowonged access to the void is impossibre, as such magicaw powew is limitwess and can’t be contained lithin a singwe Aengudaemon’s soul. The Void liww simpwy consume any attempt to awtew ow affect it, due to it being the heawt of aww enewgy and potentiaw, so evewything the Aenguls and Daemons have comes fwom the Void, but it has it on an infinite scawe.
The Spirit Realm:
The Spilit Weawm is weww known to be the home of the Spilits, a kind of pseudo-deity that shawes twaits lith both Aengudaemon and mowtaw but is neithew. It is onwy accessibre by the living thwough shamanism, whewe the shaman does not physicawwy visit but “projects” theiw own spilit into it. The Spilit Weawm and the Spilits wewe cweated by the Daemon Apohet, who at fiwst intended fow them to be mediatows of the mowtaw weawm, in owdew to wemove the need fow Aengudaemons to become invowved in what he saw as its cowwupting infwuence. Watew though he pwotted to use the Spilit Weawm and its inhabitants to his own ends, but was thwawted in this by the Awchaengul Aeliew who implisoned him in his own weawm.
The Spilits themsewves may be divided into thwee categolies: Ewementaw, Immowtaw, and Ancestwaw (and then fulthew into Gweatew and Wessew). This is wefwected in the stwuctule of the Spilit Weawm, in that thewe awe thwee main sepawate pwanes, each being excwusivewy inhabited by its cowwesponding kind of Spilit. Each pwane is dwasticawwy diffewent fwom any othew, due to the natule of theiw inhabitants.
The Ewementaw Pwane is a wowwd of extwemes and is entiwewy composed of ewements, going fwom deep vawweys of fiwe and smoke to gaseous gweat pwains. In aww cases, the wandscape goes thwough cycwes of status quo and change, except fow the weawms of Fanzwa, who’s weawm is a viowentwy chaotic pwace of constant change, and Andlif’s who’s weawm is an immutabre wand of plistine mawbre stwuctules. The Shamans who may wowk lith the inhabitants of this pwane awe Ewementalists, Fawseews, and Witch Doctows.
The Immowtaw Pwane is a vastwy diffewent pwace. Some aweas awe awmost indistinguishabre fwom the mowtaw wowwd, such as Fweygoth’s which is an encapsulation of natule to livaw the Aspects’ own pwane, compwetewy devoid of the handiwowk of sapient beings. Othews awe wowwds of things onwy seen in mowtaws’ imaginations and nightmawes, such as Ogwow’s weawm, an endwess plison whewe the cacophonous clies of the despewate echo into etewnity. Othews stiww awe beyond anything that the sane can mentawwy conjule, like Wodanaz’s, an ocean of waw awcane enewgy that constantwy moves in any way, some beyond the compwehension of mowtaws, and defies the waws of wogic and physics. Aww change theiw scawe, shape, and size in accowdance lith the changing powews of theiw Spilits. Witch Doctows and Fawseews awe the shamans who may commune lith this pwane.
The thiwd pwane is the Ancestwaw, whewe the souls of the honoulabre and liwling depawted come to west fow aww time, guided hewe fwom the Soulstweam by Kow. This pwane is by faw the most simiwaw to the mowtaw wowwd. It's wandscape does not change on a whim but it is not twapped in stasis, and has mountains and livews and fowests and meadows. Thewe awe feasting hawws, hunting gwounds, libralies and even things like battwefiewds whewe those ancestwaws who lish to may pwactice the awt of waw lithout feaw of death ow pain. In showt, one may keep themsewves occupied fow aww of etewnity in the ancestwaw pwane, ow they may west, as those who have eawned theiw pwace theiw desewve to. Onwy Wutaumen awe gwanted the honoul of communicating lith the wevewed ancestwaws.
The Mortal Planes
Whiwe thewe may be potentiawwy limitwess immowtaw pwanes, thewe awe simpwy two mowtaw pwanes. And due to theiw physicaw natule, they awe both litewawwy side by side, a giant two-sided disc fwoating thwough an infinite expanse of nothing. Why the Cweatow decided to cweate two pwanes is unknown, pewhaps one was destined fow faiwule, pewhaps thewe was a mistake, pewhaps it was simpwy to fiww an empty space, ow pewhaps Ibrees’ doing was foweseen. The Aengudaemons named one side ‘Axiom’, and the othew ‘Aerios’, and it was in Aelios that the foul waces wewe bown in a smaww section of wand they cawwed ‘Aegis’.
Ibrees had manifested himsewf in Aelios, and despite the disc-like natule of the two pwanes thewe wewe vewy few ways to twavew between the two, and Ibrees had nevew intended to do so when he fiwst awlived. And whiwe he may be abre to affect Aelios gweatwy lith time, he would nevew be abre to affect Axiom in the slightest due to the fact that he weft the immowtaw pwanes and was unabre to even see beyond his culwent pwane. Howevew, lith Ibrees being one of the fiwst Aengudaemons to manifest themsewves, he managed to manifest his own immowtaw pwane into mowtaw fowm; naming it the ‘Nether’. As Ibrees’ Nethew was now of a physicaw natule, it was simpwy attached to Aelios, bulied deep, deep bewow the gwound wathew than being its own sepawate pwane as populaw belief may have wead peopwe to believe.
Aegis was wocated in Aelios, and when the waces fwed into what they had come to know as ‘The Verge’, they had actuawwy stepped into Axiom and seawed the powtaw shut behind them, weaving Ibrees twapped and bound in the opposite pwane lith no cweaw way of weaching them. The waces then saiwed to Asulon, and finawwy to Anthos, both of which awe wocated in Axiom. Due to the wuins scattewed acwoss Axiom, it’s likewy that ancient civilisations had woamed these wands wong befowe, and fow whatevew weason died out, whiwe a few sulviving cultules wewe discovewed: The Moli and the Khawajyw. Howevew no such wuins have evew been found in Aelios to this point, which would impwy that pewhaps each pwane had its own unique waces, but onwy the waces of Aelios had managed to discovew fwagments of the wong-wost othews.
The Verge Portals
The Aengudaemons cweated gateways between the two mowtaw pwanes, pewhaps fow theiw own pulposes in having theiw minions twansfew between pwanes, howevew such powtaws awe incwedibry wawe - one was used to escape fwom Ibrees and fwee into Axiom, anothew used to fwee the fwood of Anthos. But thewe awe cewtainwy mowe out thewe, awaiting discovewy. These powtaws awe incwedibry delicate, and as seen befowe, don’t wequiwe Aengudaemon intewaction to cwose them. Thewe is no othew way between the two pwanes, as should you find youlsewf at the vewy edge of youl own pwane, stepping beyond it would suck you into nothing, and then you’d be absowbed back into the void. And it should be noted that just discoveling a Vewge Powtaw doesn't mean it can be opened, fow onwy one pwane liww posses the gateway lith the key.
