Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus

Basic Information:

“The song of harmony rings sweet and true on the plane of Mechanus like nowhere else in the multiverse. Truly it earns the name nirvana – a peaceful serenity settles over the clockwork gears and moving pieces of the landscape. Everything moves with purpose, determination, and singular focus, and nothing is left to chance. If there’s a blueprint for peace, I can see no better guide than Mechanus, though even such a perfectly working mechanism has its own problems from time to time. The constant tune-up and maintenance, though, is part of the intricate cycle that is, in a word, breathtaking.”

Issilda the Unbreakable

Absolute order brings absolute harmony, at least in the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus, the most orderly plane in all the multiverse. There is no subtlety or guile present in this plane of stark truth and fact, but neither is there passion or emotion. Everything moves and happens with deliberate and driven purpose according to a plan, though most, including many of the residents and gods, are blind to that plan – a situation that suits the inhabitants just fine. Mechanus is a plane filled with enormous gears, like the internal working of a clock, each gear moving in perfect concert with adjacent gears. Some gears are as small as 10 feet across, while most are larger, spanning hundreds or thousands of miles across. They all move, though many are so expansive that their movements are imperceptible to those moving and living on them. 
In this plane of constant motion, of gear teeth moving with absolute precision, everything is in perfect balance. Day and night, light and dark, they are all parceled out in equal portions without change or deviation. The sheer scale of the operation on Mechanus is mind-boggling and has thus far eluded attempts at deciphering, though some have dedicated their lives to understanding its meaning. 
The Confederacy of the Cog are a group of brilliant artificers who are wholly devoted to understanding not just how Mechanus works, but why. Life exists in the Clockwork Nirvana as well, though most of it is mechanical or constructed in nature. The most numerous and recognizable of Mechanus’ resident races are the modrons – legions of geometrically shaped creatures living, breathing, and operating to keep Mechanus ticking and running smoothly. From the spherelike monodrones, to the cube-like duodrones, all the way up to their supreme god, Primus, they are all devoted to keeping the gears running. They don’t know why, they don’t care why, and usually they only have the barest hint at what exactly their duties accomplish. But they accomplish them with focused intensity and child-like glee.
The clockwork precision of Mechanus is not just found in the continually running gears and moving pieces. There’s a sense of rigid order that pervades every facet, and affects everyone equally that travel its realm of endless gear. The regular variance of chance is dampened to an extreme degree, so that the predictable outcome is the most likely, even in an otherwise unpredictable situation. 
Warriors swing their weapons with the same amount of force, regardless of how much they want to inflict more or less. Magic and spells are affected in similar fashions. There are many comparisons between Mechanus and Arcadia, and the insect-like formians are found on both in great numbers. However, whereas Arcadia relies upon a complex set of legal laws and regulations maintained by the Lex, Mechanus’ laws are ingrained in the very fabric of the plane.  For many of these laws, breaking them is simply not possible, or at least not to the general populace. Certain magical artifacts and beings are said to affect the laws of Mechanus, but these individually powerful aspects rarely visit the Clockwork Nirvana. 
There are other, stranger manifestations in this plane of absolute order. The Word of Law is an enigmatic figure that twists the natural power of Mechanus into immensely powerful written words, like scrolls. Few has seen this strange being face to face, and most believe it is an entity from another plane pushing into the Clockwork Nirvana. 
The Glass God is another one of these powers though its origin is more overt – it comes from the Far Realm and seems to be enforcing a kind of unknown, alien order into the rigid structure of Mechanus, spreading and infecting out like a disease. It surprises some to learn that there are portions of Mechanus devoted to junk and refuse, along with the raw materials that make up the gears. These are, of course, all perfectly orderly and organized, and the modrons that tend to them and many other realms in the Clockwork Nirvana take their jobs very seriously. They have strict rules preventing outsiders from taking scrap or raw materials outside of the designated zones. 
The great machine of Mechanus is constantly moving, in perfect synchronization with countless delicate gears across hundreds of thousands of miles. Or at least, that’s the image. The reality is that there are any number of parts that break down across the gear landscape, and a great many outsiders work to harvest the valuable metal for their own purposes. Mechanus exists as the pinnacle of order in the multiverse, but it is not perfect, and there are plenty of cracks in its façade for many to exploit.

Lore Summary:

TBD

Environment: Endless landscape of ever rotating gears

Landmarks: Gear Graveyard, Terminus Enclave, Regulus,

NPCs: Empyrean Nick

Type

Dimensional plane

Location under

{0,0} Jaytown

Contested By

• The Glass God

Status: Explored
Difficulty: Challenging
Uncovered by: Luren, Captain Muffintop, Arima, Ward and Alyra