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Oh! The children, they gather... Guided by the hand of intuition that found resolve in their desire for returning... For while the creator speaks of acceptance, of love...What remains, still yet lingers. To absolve themselves in the spiritual sense, when bonding to the astral sea. Could he find the same forgiveness of the depths? Choices to which held consequences. Had never sought to escape his mind. He marches onward, all the same. Bringing with him, the select few. Who could perhaps alter the intentional fate of one who would have been met with, otherwise.

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The Spirit Realm is an incorporeal dimension parallel to the physical plane of Eternia, where 'Spirits' and other supernatural entities reside, unseen to most. When a creature succumbs to death, their spirit is said to pass into the beyond for an unspecified amount of time, considered the afterlife and eternal resting ground of all living things. Countless myths and beliefs have accumulated regarding the unseen aspects of the Spirit Realm, given its magical and boundless nature.

The many realms can be seen within the distant stars at night, as if peering into it through the sky directly, as each individual star is another floating world within this plane. The saying 'the dead watch over the living from above' certainly has merit. The color of a star correlates with the individual realm, clustered together in 'galaxies', where a bright gold one might be a planet in Vanaheim, or a bleak black star (known as a void star) represents the desolate planets of Helheim. An endless cosmos that's as mysterious as it is enchanting.

While it's nigh impossible to enter the outer worlds without the aid of a highly focused, magically intense ritual, there are known Points of Convergence through Eternia that act as a middle ground between the two. Highly unstable, magically charged regions that have supernatural mutations that vary depending on where it aligns with the netherworld. This also acts as a gateway for incorporeal creatures to slip back and forth, with the more powerful of them able to sustain themselves indefinitely within Eternia.

The Spirit Realm operates on a different set of rules than the physical world. The realm is seemingly infinite in every direction, geographies vary radically and often morph on whim, and gravity is not always constant. A common sight in the Spirit Realm is the physical manifestation of the lifestream in the form of tangible, spiraling streams of energy gliding around landscapes and horizons across the floating planets and endless sky.

The realm is populated by both humanoid and non-humanoid otherworldly beings, that are born, live, and die under different circumstances. Sentient life isn't as dense in the outer worlds; it's more spread out, with the occasional swathe of it. Most of the planets are absent of organized cultures or lifeforms, but organic matter is still plentiful. Creatures similar (but much different) to our own animals can be found in abundance, while intelligence similar to humanity is especially rare outside of the 'major' planets.

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Attendees: Valdis Hiraeth +4 others.

Risk: COD

Reward: To be discussed.

Themes: Lore/ Drakanite History / Informative / Enlightenment

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As some know, fate and time are closely linked. Those that follow the weave of the stars might even believe that fate is predetermined. That none can chart a path that is not already laid out. Thus, then, time must flow towards those fates without alteration. Without change. However, both time magi and seers are quick to point out how both the flow of time and fate can be changed. Diverted. Primarily in small ways, of course... There are many events that loom in the future that are so large that they can seem to be impossible to get away from. But individuals often can yet affect the flow.

However, there are those who are not satisfied with the small changes that they can enact by making different choices. They desire greater control, greater influence, and so will often seek to manipulate time itself in order to change fate. Oneiros, the Master of Fate is one such individual that sought such power. Stealing an unwritten page from Memoria, this Nethradin gained the power to alter time and fate. Cultists and witches of Oneiros, and others inspired by such acts, might seek their own ways of changing the flow of time to their own benefit.

That is not, however, to say that the flow of time is undefended. Champions of Memoria and Gala both seek to preserve the proper way of things. Their priests, their faithful, safeguard much in the world. And some few go beyond, leaving this world behind to become eternal wardens of Fate and Time.

It is said that one such Warden, tied deeply to Memoria, can yet be contacted by those in Meranthe. To those attuned to the flow of fate, and in places where such things are stronger, they can call upon this strange spirit for advice or aid. Some claim this spirit was once a citizen of Meranthe, whilst others believe it is merely a manifestation of time's whims. But spiritmancers who look towards the flow of fate do occasionally mention a strange entity that seems more concerned with the fate of Meranthe than most.