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Completing the structure of the cosmology are the reflections.
Completing the structure of the cosmology are the reflections.


As the Astral Plane shines it's silver existence through the universes within it, each of those universes casts a bright and wavery reflection upon the face of the Deep Dark. That bright reflection or each universe is a seperate, lesser, version of each reality. This is called the Ethereal Plane, and every Material Plane of any sort has an associated Ether.  
As the Astral Plane shines its silver existence through the universes within it, each of those universes casts a bright and wavery reflection upon the face of the Deep Dark. That bright reflection or each universe is a seperate, lesser, version of each reality. This is called the Ethereal Plane, and every Material Plane of any sort has an associated Ether.


As the True Black stares eternally at the True Silver, the universes block the view. The sucking hunger of the Fuligin Well pulls so hard on the structure of the material planes that they form a dark, terrible, twisted shadow of each material plane. That dark, twisted shadow formed between the Material and the Outer Madness is the Plane of Shadow. Every material plane forms its own Plane of Shadow, and terrible indeed is the life that lives there.
As the True Black stares eternally at the True Silver, the universes block the view. The sucking hunger of the Fuligin Well pulls so hard on the structure of the material planes that they form a dark, terrible, twisted shadow of each material plane. That dark, twisted shadow formed between the Material and the Outer Madness is the Plane of Shadow. Every material plane forms its own Plane of Shadow, and terrible indeed is the life that lives there.
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That, then is the overarching cosmology. The eternal Silver Sea creates and mirrors the Eternal Madness. The Astral Plane twists into the bright, hot, energetically sterile Fount of Reality, in which a multitude of Material Planes are created.  The Prime Material is the largest and most stable, and has sat upon the Fount for untold millenia. The warm, life-giving reflection of the Fount is the Seed, where the dark well of the Outer Madness is destroyed to create the Spark of Life. The Spark infuses the Material Planes and life arises, fed and powered by the Fount.  
That, then is the overarching cosmology. The eternal Silver Sea creates and mirrors the Eternal Madness. The Astral Plane twists into the bright, hot, energetically sterile Fount of Reality, in which a multitude of Material Planes are created.  The Prime Material is the largest and most stable, and has sat upon the Fount for untold millenia. The warm, life-giving reflection of the Fount is the Seed, where the dark well of the Outer Madness is destroyed to create the Spark of Life. The Spark infuses the Material Planes and life arises, fed and powered by the Fount.  


The Prime Material has a number of stable satellite realities, both naturally and through the agency of the Greater Gods. A far larger number of realities are doomed to drift and molder forever, which is the domain of the Crool, and the Atropals. The second largest reality, the most recently evicted Prime Material, is the closest reality to the Prime Material. This is the weird, wild, reality known as the First World, and is a place of manifold dangers as it begins it's long, slow slide into the Dark.
The Prime Material has a number of stable satellite Material Plane realities, both naturally and through the agency of the Greater Gods. These are known by many names, and have many characteristics. The Elemental Planes are satellites of the Prime Material, as are the Outer Planes, which are deifically anchored Material Planes, and include heavens and hells, paradises and wastelands. Mixed in with the Elemental and Outer Planes are many even smaller realities, the so-called Alternate Planes, where sub-universes strive to stay close enough to the Fount to remain viable.  


Finally, every material plane casts two reflections, one the bright, insubstantial Ether, the other the dark, far-too-real Shadow.
A far larger number of Material Plane realities eventually break free of the Prime Material and drift away, slowly sinking into the Deep Dark. These realities  are doomed to drift and molder forever, and these crumbling, hopeless infinities are the domains of the Crool, and the Atropals.  


This is the stage upon which adventures are drawn in Epic Path.
In this amazing constellation of planar realities, there is one that is truly enormous, rivalling the Prime Material. This second largest reality, the most recently evicted Prime Material, is the closest reality to the Prime Material. This is the weird, wild, reality known as the First World, and is a place of manifold dangers as it begins its long, slow slide into the Dark.


Finally, every material plane casts two reflections, one the bright, insubstantial Ether, the other the dark, far-too-real Shadow.


This is the stage upon which adventures are drawn in Epic Path.


==The Prime Material Plane==
==The Prime Material Plane==

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