January 01, 2005

Realm Types

  • Major: a big, populous realm that has regular contact with Hybris and probably has a fair number of relatively stable portals (meaning as long as only a few people travel through them at a time, they'll stick around; sending an army through would break them).
  • Minor: a realm that is generally only lightly populated (and often quite small). It may still have regular contact with Hybris, but it probably doesn't have as many connections as a Major realm.
  • Lost: a realm which has no known connections with Hybris or the other realms. Occasionally folks from a lost realm will show up through a one-time portal, but often end up stranded. No one knows how many lost realms there are... a few scholars think that there are an infinite number, but most people scoff at that.
  • Sealed: a Minor or Major realm whose deity or deities have deliberately sealed it away, breaking all connections between it and other realms. The difference between a Lost realm and a Sealed one is that the Sealed realm has been deliberately cut off and would probably automatically drift back into contact if the inhabitants stopped working to keep it sealed.
  • Gathered: multiple realms can be drawn together until they actually form large connections, making them effectively a single realm... so long as sufficient magical energy is available to maintain these artificially strengthened connections. Such realms are referred to as having been "gathered" together.
Posted by Kiz at January 1, 2005 02:31 PM
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