Cosmology

Aeons and Eidolons

Domains

Aeons do not fully exist in material reality as mortals understand it. Some characterize their embodiments more like protrusions into reality from somewhere else. In most cases, from a Domain.

Magic

Magic is a property of reality that the Veil normally suppresses. On the other side of the Veil, in the Shadow, in Domains, in Nod, it is ambient.

The Shadow

The Shadow is an eldritch wilderness that exists on the other side of the Veil. It looks like the mortal world, bears its structure, but is distorted by history and memory. Comparisons to the world through a looking glass or a warped mirror are apt.

The Taxonomy

There are things that are more and less than human which dwell amongst us. They can change their shape, or change reality. They can shrug off injury and the weight of years. They can speak lost tongues and write in letters that twist the mind and coax the Veil to parting, and they have attended us through our history.

The Veil

The Veil is a barrier that separates the world as most mortals experience it from its arcane Shadow. Theologians call it the wall between the living and the dead, the border of heaven and hell. Scientists who stumble upon it describe it in terms of membranes and dimensional boundaries. All are incomplete descriptions of the same phenomenon: the wall between the world as mortals know it and a stranger world underneath.