#cosmic infinity

Celdos reveal, your grace.

We move from known lore to the realm of philosophers and theory. For now we speak of the nature of existence and how it impacts the mortal realm.

All reality can be split into three aspects.

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The Mortal Realm, also known as the Prime Material or the Crucible, is the gleaming star in the center. It is here that all that you know of has ever transpired. Very rarely, mortals might slip the bonds of the Prime Material in great quests to the other aspects. But this is the stuff of legend, almost never seen by any alive.

Below is the World Bones. The Eternal Green. The Primordial Lands. The Realms of the Elemental Lords. Here, the reality we know is propped up by the constant flow and merging of the foundational elements: Air, Water, Fire, and Earth. We will speak of the World Bones later.

Above is the Cosmic Infinity. The Endless Grey. The Echoing Chamber. The Unknown Country. This is where the actions and deeds of mortals find new life and flesh of their own. These new beings form realms of similar substance. Good and evil. Law and chaos. And a host of other concepts besides.

The Cosmic Infinity is vast beyond all comprehension. Beings great and small are born by the deeds of mortal kind, and one event might spawn a host of Grey spirits.

For example. Imagine a thief enters the home of a freeman. The freeman’s wife sees the thief and knows chilling fear. The thief attacks and the freeman kills him to defend his family.

What is born from this? A spirit of chaos from the theft. A demon of fear. Another of murder. An angel of love, another of protection, and another of vengeful justice. And last of all, a spirit born of the peasant’s dread, knowing their home is no safe harbor.

Perhaps none of those spirits are mighty – at least to start with. They might grow in strength as the ages pass, but the core of their being is determined by the action that gave birth to them. In this way each is unique and is indelibly influenced by the actors that made it, though sages will often lump them into larger groupings.

These spirits are greater and lesser in strength, ranging all the way to the gods themselves, who embody entire concepts by themselves. For the Trine, a lifetime dedicated to these concepts, incredible magical skill as mortals, and the acquiring of a divine spark elevated them to godhood.

What connects the mortal life to the Cosmic Infinity is the Spirit or Soul. It is the spark of life by which creatures are animate. It is tethered to the mortal body by life force. When a creature dies, the life force enriches the world and releases the spirit to the Cosmic Infinity.

The spirit reaches a mid ground between the Mortal Realm and the Cosmic Infinity known as the Realm of Souls. There, they visit the Grandmother Nox and are judged by Cassan. Beyond this, almost nothing is known of the afterlife, though many cultures have many different thoughts on the matter.

And here our lesson ends.

Celdos guide you