Ethereal Plane

The **Ethereal Plane** is one of the many layers of the Spirit World.

## Characteristics

The Ethereal Plane is the deepest layer of the Spirit World. It is located beyond the Astral Plane, separated by the ethereal barrier, a membrane similar to the Fabric of Reality, but with an elastic consistency, that is, it can only be crossed in localized "tears". The ethereal domains are geographically similar to the Haled, that is, some places such as mountains, rivers, deserts exist equally in both places, but do not have any human construction.

The inhabitants of the Ethereal Plane are known as ethereal spirits. In the past, they were humans who did great deeds in their lives and were so important to their nations that when they died, they received prayers and offerings. As they did not want to lose the affection of their followers, these spirits refused the ascension and decided to stay in the Ethereal Plane, transforming themselves into pagan gods. In addition to human spirits, concepts and essences that were worshiped by people also gained forms, such as the Moon, the Forest, War, Death, etc...

Because of this connection with humans, the pagan gods began to get stronger and stronger, with some reaching the level of angels. Because of this, the archangels began a military campaign against these spirits, known as the Ethereal Wars. Despite the efforts of the celestials, human belief made the gods very strong, so for 11,000 years the war remained a stalemate until the archangel Michael decreed an end to the conflict.

## Deep Ethereal

Through specific routes found in the Ethereal Plane, entities can access the Deep Ethereal, a more distinct and distant area of ​​physical reality, possessing unique laws and properties. Like normal Ethereal, it is located under geographic locations on Earth, but they are more difficult to access.

### Hades

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For the Greeks, the underworld, used as prisons for gods and demigods who challenged Zeus during the mythical age. Many of the arms of the River Styx end in Hades, which is also called Stygia.

### Elysian Fields

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It is somewhere under the North Pole. In the past, it was where the souls of the righteous went, who would later make their way to the Third Heaven. Those who visited the Elysian Fields already in mythological times described it as a very beautiful region, but completely abandoned, with beautiful ruins and magnificent buildings.

### Other Realms

* **010101:** The binary realm is reported to cover an immense region, corresponding to Silicon Valley, under the ethereal barrier. To enter this place, one must have the specific codes.
* **Ephemeral:** The realm of transient pleasures lies beneath the physical city of Las Vegas, Nevada. Those who have accessed it say that Ephemeral resembles a large casino, with games, drinks, sex workers, drugs and other intoxicating objects and substances.
* **Erebus:** The realm of darkness is located on the hidden face of the Moon. It is ruled by Nix, the goddess of perpetual night.
* **Jangala**: This realm is populated by the spirits of ancestral plants and trees, which have succumbed to the pollution and fires perpetrated by the human race. It is on the edges of the Amazon rainforest.
* **Lemuria:** Sailors who know the exact directions can - even today - reach the lost continent of Lemuria. The Lemurians were decimated by the Great Flood, but their powerful spirits built a duplicate of the ancient realm in the Indian Ocean, two layers beyond the Fabric of Reality.
* **Mech:** In the ethereal depths of Germany's Ruhr Valley, this mechanized kingdom emerged in the 1890s. Those who have visited it say it looks like a machine of colossal proportions. Its avenues are like kilometer mats, and the squares copy the shape of gears, in constant movement.
* **Cyber Realm:** Whoever observes the impressive towers of the city of Shanghai, in China, cannot imagine that somewhere under the ethereal barrier is the Cyber ​​Realm, inhabited by gynoids, robots and cyborgs.
* **Shamballa:** Before the Flood, Shamballa was a physical city, which stood on the mountains between Arya and K'un Lung. The place regressed to the Ethereal Plane after the flood and then closed its borders, sinking into the Deep Etheral. Shamballa is today the meeting place of the White Fraternity, a council that brings together the main ethereal deities.
* **Utopia:** This is the realm of tranquility and harmony, idealized by the Hellenic peoples. It lies beneath the Greek islands and can only be accessed by someone with a pure heart.

## Inhabitants

The Ethereal Plane is, as stated above, the home of the ethereal spirits, also known as pagan gods. They are the spirits of humans who chose to stay on the Ethereal Plane because of the worship of their faithful. Thus, they transformed and amassed power, rivaling even the angels. Even after the Great Flood and the Ethereal Wars, some of the most powerful spirits have continued to live to the present day, despite having lost power with the rise of the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam):

* Ethereal Spirits
	+ Korrigan/Titania
	+ Andira
	+ Groll
	+ Bacarata, Prince of Matter
* Fairies
	+ Dragons

## Trivia

* According to definitions, ethereal means something so divine, heavenly, and pure that it could not have an earthly origin.
	+ This is ironic, as most ethereal gods are disembodied human spirits.
* The pagan gods, because of their ethereal nature, cannot create an avatar and materialize in Haled, like angels and demons. Because of this, they could only contact their followers at vertices and shrines naturally scattered around the world or created by magic. It was within these places that demigods and heroes were conceived.
* Some of the Deep Ethereal realms are inspired by mystical locations, such as:
	+ **Hades** represents both the underworld of Greek mythology and the god that rules it.
	+ The **Elysian Fields**, or just **Elysium**, would be the equivalent of Paradise in Greek mythology, where virtuous men rested with dignity after death.
	+ **Ephemeral** means something temporary, of short duration.
	+ **Erebus** is, in Greek mythology, the personification of darkness.
		- **Nyx**, who rules this realm, is Erebus' sister and the personification of night.
	+ **Jângala**, or **jangal**, is a synonym for woods or forest in Portuguese.
	+ **Lemuria** would be a lost land, just like Atlantis, located in the Indian Ocean.
	+ **Shamballa** is a mystical place often mentioned in sacred texts and present in various traditions of the East.
	+ **Utopia** is a term of Greek origin that describes an ideal place, or nation, of perfect conditions, which does not yet exist in the present, but can be built in the future.