Cosmology¶
How Terrun came to be and how it is put together. The world the mortal races walk on is one layer of a stack of planes: elemental fire beneath, the Fae machinery of the natural order between, the Material itself, and above and beside it the Shadow, the Netherworld where souls gather, the Astral Plane whose shards are the seats of the gods, and the Abyss that was carved out to hold the Demons. Beyond everything lies the Void, "an infinite expanse of nothingness" from which, the oldest accounts say, all creation emerged. The pages below describe the layers, the substances that pass between them, and what a living thing is made of.
- Creation: how the planes were made, from the Void and the Elemental Chaos through the Throne of Law, the Abyss and the Mithis barrier to the Rift.
- Planes: the planes one by one, inner and outer, with how they connect and what forms can visit them.
- Astral Shards: the fragments of the Throne of Law that confer dominion, their classes, the Five Astral Domains, Astral Dust and sovereign matter.
- Astral Contracts: the sharing agreements by which a shard-holder grants access to a shard: Bound, Ordained, Covenant, Ascended and Fallen.
- Mithis: the particle that was once a shard and a barrier, scattered across the world in the Shattering, tainted in the Hollowing and gone from the Material after the Redemption.
- Hollows: the demi-planes that formed around tainted Mithis, where the Abyss bled into the Material.
- Souls and Spirits: soul, spirit and form; mortals, immortals, elementals and demons; death, projection, possession and the afterlife.
- Nature of Magic: Ether and Nether, the Binding Rule, Astral Law, and the sources of magical power across the ages.