Cosmology of Liminal

The following information is familiar to those with training in occult principles and planar lore. The average person outside of Liminal is only aware of the existence of many, many places outside the world. Even those within Liminal are aware of individual places and locations within the planes, rather than the philosophy on how those planes interrelate and connect together.

The Mortal World

This is the world of mortal folk, also known as the World, the "prime material plane" and many other concepts, depending on who is being spoken to. It is also sometimes called "the middle world" to compare it to the relative "positions" of the Fundamental and Parallel Planes.

Above & Below: The Fundamental Planes

Ancient expanses of immense raw power, the Fundamental Planes act as the building blocks for all the rest of the cosmos. These planes are vast expanses of pure energy in which float "bubbles" of solidified existence, finite "places" that exist like islands in the infinite natures of their parent Fundamental Plane.

The Astral Sea & Astral Dominions

A silvery, shimmering plane of infinite potential, the Astral Sea is the spawning place of purpose, thought, desire, ideas and all such higher concepts. The Astral Sea itself is a realm where dreams and thoughts escape to once born, returning like fish to their spawning pools. Indeed, these realms are not just those of mortal fancy, but of the gods themselves, the gossamer nature of the Astral Sea giving solidity and speed to the worship and prayers of mortals.

Within the Astral Sea are the myriad Astral Dominions, finite domains of various powerful entities who have shaped these places to suit their needs - or discovered the dominions that others have left behind.

The Elemental Chaos & Elemental Realms

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Right & Left: The Parallel Planes

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Secret Places: The Demiplanes

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Outside Places: The Anomalous Planes

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