cosmology

The crystalline engine at Elderran's heart that tore the Izzus seam to seize time itself. It cannot be shut off, and it still runs.

The Astral Sea is not still.

The Astral Plane consists of a massive sea with floating islands, consisting of a special stone-like material that floats in Astral solution.

Epyphiozath is a major planar stack existing elsewhere in the cosmos.

The Ethereal and Nethereal planes are two thin planes that overlay all other planes within Alaria.

Glyssen is a spherical ocean of whispers and insanity.

Instruxofinum consists of billions of planes jammed tightly together, nearly perfectly frozen in time.

Klokas is a vast void of empty space filled with huge demonic creatures floating through the skies.

A planar stack neighbouring Alaria where Aether is the native energy. An eruption there flung Aether and Lanthornium onto Alaria, seeding its whole sky-trade.

A creature’s life is dictated by the health and union of their soul, shadow, and spirit.

Completely dark, nothing can be seen in Narglon.

A soul or shadow stopped mid-transit through the Ethereal or Nethereal overlay, stranded there when necromancy severs its thread before death can finish.

Built by the titans to illuminate the darkness of the world.

A planar stack is a collection of tightly grouped planes, usually holding strong connections to each other.

The open air above the Surfacelands, rising from the cloud-lanes of sky ships to the thin cold heights where the Syngers sail beneath the stars.

The unmediated presence of Aurus himself—not a plane, but the sub-presence core of the White Sun that underlies the Astral Plane.

The unmediated presence of Nydus himself—not a plane, but the sub-presence core of the Black Sun that underlies Malstaris.

The island-city of the Astral Plane built beneath a glowing orb held aloft on two pillars, seat of the deified Gihatti, king of the Astral.

Alaria has a handful of major spoken languages and many minor ones; Northern Commonfolk comes closest to a shared tongue.

The flow of thought and intention across Alaria; the thought-face of Ezz, inseparable from Faesong's emotion-face.

Five hundred years when the sun's celestial-glass core was corrupted and Koras fought alone to reignite it; the bond between Koras and Bryn deepened after.

The folded-time structure beneath the Evertorch cathedral, where the Izzus leyline surfaces—and the reason the flame above never varies.