Wicker

Wicker

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Common understanding of the Cosmos

The concept of other planes is not known to the common folk, and thus your character. What is known is there is no heaven or hell as understood at large. The spirits of the dead are taken down under the depths of the sea to the Halls of the Silent Lady. There is no real focus on punishment or redemption in the afterlife. The Omnian Church has long maintained a doctrine of salvation, but at a future time. Basically they believe that Omnos will at the end of the age gather his faithful from the Silent Lady’s Halls and carry them into paradise.

It is commonly held that the Sun and Caulderon, the subterranean sea of lava and fire, are the source of all natural heat in the world. The further north you get the colder the environment, but this is because in the north is a place called Eternal Ice which is the source of winter, cold winds, and much of the nastier weather and not because of an understanding of a real world solar model involving rotation around the sun, etc…

Even though your characters would not have this knowledge, I’ll give you a couple little planar nuggets which will help you frame the mindset of your characters for future encounters. First, the Fey do not have another realm or plane as is typical in my previous games. They exist wholly in the prime material plane as “natives.” Second, there are no elemental planes. Elementals are native to the Prime Material plane, and are created by playing directly with the material of existence (usually by the Chronosi). That is all I will say here, and you are free to ponder, extrapolate, and role play in game based off of it in regards to the planar make up of this universe.

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