The Ether

The Ether, sometimes called the Otherworld or the Immaterium, is the world of magic, composed of all the realms and dimensions outside the realm of Earth, (better known as the Tellurian). All manner of spirits reside there, including demons, angels, and faeries. Furthermore, upon death, all souls will make their way to some sort of Ethereal plane or layer, after being disconnected from their physical form.

## The Chimer

Main Article: The Chimer

The Chimer is an Ethereal region formed of thought and imagination, built by the detritus of mortal dreams. Most of the myriad realms of the Chimer are in constant flux, for a new one is birthed with every dream, altered and twisted as that dream occurs. Certain areas of the Chimer have been given constancy, thanks to millennia of patterns in mortal dreaming, and by the will of various Chimera, spiritual beings who inhabit the Chimer.

## The Underworld

Main Article: The Underworld

The Underworld, also known as Purgatory, is the vast oneiric realm of the restless dead. The souls who refuse to pass on after death, becoming ghosts, doom themselves to one day enter this realm. The Underworld appears as an endless realm of dark and gloom, filled with the echoes and detritus of mankind's consciousness. Entire nations of the dead reside, mostly allying to defend themselves from the predations of entities seeking to take hold of unclaimed souls.

### The Shadelands

Main Article: The Shadelands

The Shadelands are the plane that forms the bridge between the Underworld and the physical . Ghosts, the spirits of the restless dead, often inhabit the Shadelands, held there by Tethers which keep them close to the mortal coil.

## The Numenor

The Numenor, sometimes known as the Demicorpus, is the most diverse region of the Ether. It is an area composed of substance that is partially corporeal, and partially oneiric, and the realms and it contains all pertain to some aspect of the physical plane, such as the elemental Incarnal Realms and the Spirit Wilds. At the dawn of creation, it is believed that the Numenor was created from the stuff of the Astral Chaos, before having their substance refined into pure Corpus, the stuff of the physical realm.

### The Spirit Wilds

Main Article: The Spirit Wilds

The Spirit Wilds are an area within the Numenor, connected to the physical realm via the Arboreal. They teem with the spirits of dead animals, plants, and other organisms, all of which manifest as part of the Ethereal environment. Remnants and echoes of the physical world are all about, both from the present and from the past, and spirits of creatures long dead can also be found within the Wilds.

### The Arboreal

Main Article: The Arboreal

The Arboreal is a reflection of the natural aspects of the physical world. Within it, the spirits of plants and animals, as well as humans are reflected. Additionally, spirits embodying physical elements, such as storms, flames, and earthquakes are also present within the Arboreal. Given that the Arboreal reflects the state of nature within the physical world, places where nature is strong and fecund appear vibrant and full of life, while most man made structures appear drear and dull, and badly polluted places are virtual hellscapes.

In addition, the Arboreal also serves to connect the Tellurian to many of the Numenor.

## The Astral Chaos

The Astral Chaos is an area of the Ether composed of pure oneiros, the substance of thought. Of all the areas of the Ether, it is the most dynamic, a wild, chaotic place where Primus, the raw substance of creation, is transmuted into unshaped and undirected oneiros. This oneiros trickles "downwards" throughout the rest of the Ether, forming various oneiric zones, and eventually filtering through to the Tellurian, where it is used in the consciousnesses of mortal beings.

## The Primordial Forge

The Primordial Forge is the outermost area of Creation, an area of pure, unshaped Primus, the raw substance of Creation. Power beyond limit or comprehension flows from the Forge, transforming first into the unshaped oneiros of the Astral Chaos, and eventually being refined into the physical and psychic materials of reality.