Cosmology Overview
Calcaria is the centre-piece of a multiverse filled with all manner of strange and wonderful sights. From the goddess Eriu's domain of Yggdrasil, the world tree, to the melancholy Twilight Realm of Badb, the most bizarre of all is that which lies at its centre: The common world of mortals, known as the prime material plane.
The cosmology of Calcaria has been researched, studied and scrutinised over centuries by scholars of all type and races. None have come so far as Muldefix the Elder however, who spent decades studying the domains of the gods, the elemental planes and the ethereal and astral. From him stems the currently accepted model of the Aeternum and the alien and frightening things that reside in it.
Beyond the Material Plane, the various planes of existence are realms of myth and mystery. They’re not simply other worlds, but different qualities of being, formed and governed by spiritual and elemental principles abstracted from the ordinary world.
The Inner Planes
Invisible but binding around Material Plane are the Shadowfell and Feywild, mirror planes who resemble the absence and abundance of emotion respectively. Through these two planes it is thought that a balance is achieved on the prime material, Calcaria. Beyond the mirror planes and the prime material lies the omnipresent Ethereal Plane, which binds and connects all the Inner Planes, including the plane of judgement; The Long Shadow. Below the material plane and connected through long forgotten, mile deep tunnels to the Labyrinthian lies the Infernum. Those scholars who posit that Calcaria is a round globe further believe the Nine Hells are the first layers before one would reach the core of the sphere. Last but not least are the Elemental Planes that cross and surround each other as well as the prime material:- Plane of Earth
- Plane of Fire
- Plane of Water
- Plane of Air
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