Outside

"Chaos and order are natural parts of life, but an excess of either is fatal. Our world can be split into three realms, the spirit realm, the material realm, and the realm that shouldn't be."

— Canoth The Jailer

The outside is the twisted not-place beyond the Brass Realms. It is a place of madness where the laws of reality do not apply, a place feared for its power to twist unfortunate visitors into gruesome monsters. Allegedly, many aberrations are creatures of the Brass realms that were twisted by energies of the Outside.

The Outside itself and many of its inhabitants are actively hostile to the brass realms, and the effects of that hostility can be felt if an intruder ever makes their way through Limbo.

Appearance

The Outside is no singular place, instead it is many different places that are there yet not, stacked on-top of each-other, with many layers constantly overlapping, converging, fusing, splitting and diverging. With the very fabric of reality changing constantly as if it was alive, it is nigh-impossible to even judge what is there and what is not. Each realm has its own rules of reality, but all are incompatible with the laws of the Brass Realms.
Any totalizing vision of the outside is but a feeble attempt of the mind of the observer to make sense of its vast ever-changing nature. Any imagined patterns do not stem from the Outside but from the observer and the order within them.

Merely observing the Outside or being exposed to its baleful starlight is enough to drive a learned scholar insane in seconds.
If one were to leave the brass realms and visit the outside, they would be unlikely to ever return. If they did however, they would tell of strange lands full of bizarre scenes and what passes for wilderness.
Rivers of milky white liquids appear spontaneously from the air, only to flow in defiance of gravity through the air into a vortex in mid-air.
Strange blue globes rain down from unseen heights, bursting when they strike something and unleashing horse-sized ticks that immediately scuttle away to hunt for blood.
Gelatinous worms crawl burrow through the air. Forests of writhing tentacled vegetation are encrusted with orange moss, growing above an amoeba-like sea.
Baleful light of colors unseen shines from above and beyond, twisting all that touch it, illuminating fragments of worlds in the sky.
Creatures beyond human imagination seemingly vanish and appear at random as they move through higher dimensions in a bizarre nonfunctional eco-system.
At the very limit of sight drift huge half-transparent shapes, vaguely resembling creatures of the deepest ocean, but even the smallest beings are the size of a city, and they don't even notice the lesser beings that occupy only three dimensions. These beings might occasionally eminate lights and sounds and stranger things, that have warping effects upon the minds and body of those that perceive them.

Inhabitants

Main Article: Outsiders

The Outside is inhabited by the beings colloquially referred to as outsiders.
These Beings are nonsensical to beings of the Brass realms. They follow entirely different laws than those of the brass realms, orders foreign or absent entirely. Any that see them can tell immediately that they do not belong. They move wrong, follow no natural life-cycle and simply refuse to conform to Logic. Rational beings hate them instictively and want them to be purged.
To them however, the Brass realms look like just as much abomination, for they are lost in a world that follows an order so foreign to them as they are nto it. A place that is structured and rigid, unyielding and tyrannical, following alian laws, worse than any prison. They instinctively despise and fear it, for to them it is anathema. it is for this reason, that they wish it to be destroyed.

The Oblivion War

Since the beginning of the Brass Realms, the Outside has been trying to change and twist the multiverse. The inhabitants of the realms have to regularly fight off incursions, and The Divine Machine sacrifices endless legions of Mechanoids to stop these incursions in massive Battles fought in Limbo.

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Outside

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Dimensional plane