The Desolate Dimension

The **Desolate Dimension** (sometimes called "**The Cosmic Prison**", " **The Eldritch Realm**" or the **Exaverse**. This 'dimensional space' "Exists beyond the barriers of human perception".

## History

During the course of the Protas-Cosmic Horror War, a majority of the Cosmic Horrors were banished from the known Multiverse and cast into the Dimension by the **Protas** for the safety and peace of sentient life.

Before its first use by the **Protas**, the **Desolate Dimension** did not exist, since it was created to contain the evil of the Cosmic Horrors.

## Structure of The Desolate Dimension

**The Desolate Dimension** referred also as an **Exaverse** is in essence a grouping of different petaverses, which are a grouping of teraverses, which are a set of gigaverses, which feature an infinite set of megaverses, which are different multiverses, grouped in bubbles thus making an astronomically huge dimensional space in which a majority of the Cosmic Horrors were banished to during and following the **Protas-Cosmic Horror War**. This verse is guarded by a shield that traps the Cosmic Horrors inside, the security is vulnerable from the outside, and the Cosmic Horrors can cast their eldritch whispers out into other verses building followers and underlings to act to free them.

This dimension fundamentally lacks the lifeforms found in the Material plane, instead all life in this dimension is propagated by the Cosmic Horrors for the purpose of resting and strengthening themselves while exterior forces attempt to free them from their containment.

### Galaxies

#### Euphorion Galaxy

The center of the Exaverse in which the Cosmic Horrors were banished to. It was claimed as the acting Royal Palace of the Outer Gods, as the base of operations that Zsch-Kar, the Emperor set up after arriving in the verse.

### Planets

A planet claimed by the Great Old One **Th-Shath, The Phaser of the Mind**, and their child **Um'Hrdaph'Na, The Master Sin** as a means to consolidate and strengthen their power over the millennia.

## Entering & Exiting the Desolate Dimension

So far, there are only four known methods for entering the Desolate Dimension:

1. When an individual's soul is swallowed by a Cosmic Horror or Demon, it will reform in the confines of **The Desolate Dimension**.
2. An individual's Eldritch Doppelganger pulls them in via a reflective surface (though this only occurs when a large amount of supernatural activity occurs).
3. A spell for a portal created by massive amounts of "Cosmic Energy" can be found within the Necronomicon.
4. A spell using all of the Keys of the Eternal Gates can be used along with a ritual to transport an OId One class Cosmic Horror into The Desolate Dimension.

As far as methods for escaping the Dimension, only three are known so far.

1. This method can only be done if the individual was pulled into the Dimension (listed as the second entry method above), this involves returning to the place where the doppelganger switched places with the "good" counterpart and shattering the reflective surface.
2. A teleportation ritual, only achievable by a servant (usually a human cultist) of The Cosmic Horrors.
3. Using the Keys of the Eternal Gates, a singular bonded Old Great One can escape via a portal if the proper ritual is used, on the same hand if all the Keys of the Eternal Gates are gathered and the proper ritual is used all of the Old One class Cosmic Horrors can be released from The Desolate Dimension.