Kymygo Dunahasa

The **Kymygo Dunahasa** is a massive spirit plane nestled between Aquila and its exit to Emanation. The once pure void of Emanation where it now exists was breached by the Outlanders during their final mission that ended in the pacification of Moros and the end of the Aether War. The hearts of those heroes, who were by then all on a spiritual peak, unconsciously and violently resonated with the pure darkness left in the wake of the Ancient Fear in the space beyond Aquila, and together the light and dark resulted in the quiet birth of an unimaginably enormous nth dimension constantly writhing and imploding in limbo. Due to its sheer scale, fluid nature, and geometry vastly unlike that of the Overworld, it is nearly impossible to imagine let alone discuss its layout in any significant way. However, the very limited amount of ventures into the expanse have produced some knowledge that serve as the roots for a deeper understanding.

## Origins and History

The creation of Kymygo Dunahasa was an unintended side effect of the foray by The Outlanders into Emanation to pursue a rampaging Moros at the peak of the Aether War. As they left Aquila, their hearts and minds, by that point brimming with light and goodwill, combined energies with the surrounding void to explosively conceive the abominable plane. It would remain undetected for about a decade after the end of the war, until an armed Dashari frigate carrying a diplomatic mission to Ancbold, Voshe from the military island of Lymysedas was dragged toward a then-uncharted island by an anomalous magickal maelstrom.

Per Dashari naval training, the sailors and Ayndrvunlae shielded themselves from the hostile weather on what would become known as "**The Island of Another World**" by further carving into a small cavern and rationing the foodstuffs on the grounded frigate. From there, the sailors communicated - through a primitive and rough naval SOS code and redstone transceivers - a call for help to their headquarters in Lymysedas. The content of the signal alarmed and bewildered the receivers, and a heavily armored trio of Fydanvunlas frigates - each carrying a small group of interested members of the Dashari wing of the Aquilan Chemical Society - set out from the islands toward the source of the signal. Managing to brave the roaring waters, they approached the island and weighed anchor away from shore.

Swimming to the beach, they met panicked diplomats and anxious soldiers. The stranded lot informed the rescuers that two diplomats and four soldiers had mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Suspecting anomalous activity, the ACS squad instructed the remaining diplomats and soldiers to leave immediately for Lymysedas alongside the military escorts. The group then uncovered a portal built of pure quintessence and delved within, leaving one final signal to the ACS delegation in nearby Ereni should they not return.

In the immediate entrance to the new dimension, the Society rescuers found a winding cavern seemingly formed of basalt, adorned betwixt and between with creeks and lakes of an unknowable purple substance. The walls of rock as well as all material within proved impossible to sample, especially given the time limit faced by the mission. Periodically the rescuers would find entrances to further pocket dimensions of wildly varying composition, ranging from the innards of volcanoes to glacial mountaintops, finding a lost Dashari within each. The Society mission delved as deep as a mysterious central room adorned with impossibly advanced lighting and technology, within which there were five doors - one sealed by a powerful force.

Once the entirety of the stranded were rescued, the rescue squad left the dimension whence they came and immediately called for a specialized ACS brig to escort them off the island. Upon their return to the Society HQ in Ereni, the Dashari delegation was interrogated, and it was uncovered that they awoke in the dimension after having gone to sleep. From their personal stories - ranging from hearing deceased relatives to imagining being trapped under a lake of fire for 300 years - was born the name *Galaxy of Torment*, translating to **Kymygo Dunahasa** in Zetashari. All Dashari delegates were administered partial mental resets to hasten the forgetting of the doomed diplomatic mission. The Island of Another World has been quarantined since, and the military wings in the nearby islands now include anomaly training and mental preparation in their drills, and keep ACS experts within and around their encampments and military villages.

For a time, the portal in the island was perceived to be the only entrance. However, in the early 4840s, another group of heroes were sucked into the spirit plane from another location after defeating a criminal overlord and destroying his base. They reported exploring the delusions of the bygone Outlanders and overpowering their shadows, in a timeline that correlates suspiciously with the weakening of anomalous activity in the area. Hence, while the island is the only known exit, it is hypothesized that tears in the dimensional fabric of the Overworld itself may create temporary openings to the void hellscape.

## Layout

The young spirit plane is massive and ravenous, absorbing all void space around it. Even within itself, it constantly changes, deleting and adding new clusters of matter with no detectable rhyme or reason. Despite its chaotic nature, the combined efforts of valiant heroes as well as Society researchers have allowed for the exploration of octiillionths of a percent of the total volume, and trends have been discovered that serve as the grounds for the information and predictions of a possible system nature below.