The Ascendant Realm of Protogoras, the Fundamental Axiom. The birthplace of all of Edras' constructs, Nexus is a realm of clockwork and perfect order, both inhabited by and created from the spawn of Protagoras. The world machines here move with a purpose that not even the deities of the Brisingelion truly understand. Nexus orbits Edras in an incrementing cycle of years that resets and repeats once it concludes. The pattern is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, and finally 144 years to complete a single orbit.
This Ascendant Realm is filled with an infinite number of country-sized circular interlocking gears which are habitable on one or both sides. These great flat wheels are at least 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) in diameter and have teeth that mesh at right angles, all turning slowly in synchronicity. Each disk has its own gravity that operates in a sphere circumscribing it exactly and pulling towards to the top and bottom surfaces. The void between the gears is filled with air, allowing easy flight. Outside of a gravity sphere, objects feel only very weak attraction to nearby disks.
A plane of Law and order, Nirvana has equal amounts of light and dark, heat and cold, and equal measures of the four elements. There is a place for everything and everything is in its place. Even individuals living here exist to fit into the greater scheme of things and thus achieve a perfect society. There is no pain, but the only pleasure is in successfully filling a role like a gear in a machine. Passion, fantasy, and illusion do not exist here, except for what might be brought in by visitors, and any who try to foment individualism or stir passions for a cause soon find they are not well received.
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