The Outside

The outside is artifact and world that orbits in and around the Solara system. It is the world of dreams.

## Geography

The Outside could be reached from almost any of the Realms. It is described as a barren place of other-dimensional nothingness extending in all directions. The sky is black sometimes starless, and the ground is a desert of black-ish sometimes purple sand.

Time in the Outside flowed at the same rate on a Mekkan but the effects of time are sometimes slowed almost to a stop―a thousand years in the Outside felt like only a day to the traveler. The dilation of time is caused by The Outside weaving in and out of orbit to different Realms. Creatures did not go hungry while in the Outside.

Entering the Outside could be accomplished in one of two ways: projecting a dream form into the plane via Dark sleep magic: Deep Sleeping, or by physically entering the plane usually through a rift. Deep Sleeping was the safest way to travel but still involved risk because you left your physical body behind on the traveler's realm of origin. While projecting, your dream self was connected to your physical body by but would take on the form of your true self or desired. The physical body left behind appeared alive but did not require food, water, or air and did not age. It could be moved and was vulnerable to damage and death. If the traveler's physical body was slain, your soul would be trapped in the Outside with their dream body becoming their new form. If the dream self was slain, the traveler then returned to his or her physical body and wake up like a reaction from a nightmare. Physically entering the Outside required Arcana magic to weaken a rift between the two realms and brought travelers wholly into the Outside.

### Geographical Features

Upon entering the Outside, travelers saw a starry silver coloured pool nearby—a portal to the location on the realm from which they originated. These pools appeared as two-dimensional circles about 3‒18 m in diameter and only visible from one side unless they had some way to detect invisible objects. Pools of different colors were portals to the different Realms. Each Realm had its own unique color matching mana colours, however the traveler's home portal was always a metallic silver to them. Color pools could be used to view the destination realm before stepping through by mentally concentrating on the nearby pool until it became transparent. A viewer could also move (with some limitations) the portal's viewpoint by concentration. Deep Sleeper travelers formed a new physical body when they stepped through a color pool to their destination Realm. The new body was formed out of local materials so the greater the similarity between one's home plane and the destination, the more one's new body looked like the original one. However this new body still followed the rules of Deep Sleeping, and they would return to their original body on death. Leaving portals open to any of the Realms was dangerous as mana from those realms would drift into the outside. The outside was devoid of Gate Mana, yet magic was more powerful at the cost that a caster is unable to regenerate mana without the aid of mana crystals or similar devices.

## Inhabitants

On this plane of thought, the existence of true natives was doubtful. The Outsiders, however, had been a dominating presence for long ages, ruled from their great city of Gathus but mostly spread about innumerable fortresses.

Dream Wolves and astral creatures inhabit the Ebony Wasteland. But both Dream Wolves and Owols patrolled the realm regularly to keep nightmares in check.

Dream Dyards, Fiends, Glassers, Brain collectors, dhour Imp, Lith, Maws, Nightky, Molacks and the infamous Nightmares all can be found in some numbers here.

Nightmare hounds were usually found with Outsider communities as guard animals.

### Entities

Within the plane of thought and dreams reside a number of significant figures:

* Winter
* Dawn, the void Dragon
* Lin(s), the Three Queens
* Peruvian (Formally)
* Shade
* The Owol Queen

## Graveyard

The Outside is a graveyard of Luna's celestial's and fragments from the Old World. Various warrens and Tombs lead to places that where echos of the universe, Luna had hid other celestials during Lupa Lycan slaughter through various parts of space, after the triggering or Ragnarok their resting places where drawn into the realm of thought.