cosmology -- how realms, planes, and tiers fit together
The shared world stacks in layers. Ordinary Kansas towns sit on Prime
Earth. Raw elemental matter, spirit afterlives, and deeper prisons sit beside it -- not inside it. You usually reach them by death routing, Path travel, or pocket mouths -- not by walking off Main Street.
How you play
1. Read this page for the stack and tiers.
2. help planes -- travel verbs and plane list.
3. help death -- body vs spirit routing.
4. world planes -- live soul ledgers + rift fluff (help world).
Four realm families
Prime -- mortal life -- Earth (Lebanon, Lawrence, America overland).
Elemental -- raw matter -- Cinder / Tide / Gale / Stone Reaches
(fire, water, air, stone map ids).
Spirit -- soul roads -- Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Dream.
Void -- pre-creation absence -- The Empty recovery hold; Black Horizon
(Void-Touched home; map plane empty).
Where planes sit
Prime Earth -- towns, highways, dungeons on the America overland grid.
Cinder / Tide / Gale / Stone Reach -- Fire / Water / Air / earth-element
homes (map id stone is not Prime Earth).
Heaven / Hell -- Angel and Demon desks and soul banks.
Purgatory -- gray in-between (Waystation, Ashen Marches).
Dream -- sleep-road pocket (help dreamwalker).
The Empty -- void recovery hold -- not a walkable town (help empty).
Black Horizon -- Void-Touched reform home (help void_touched).
Cosmological tiers
Mortals and monsters -- live mostly on Prime; monster-frequency souls
often route to Purgatory after death (help death).
Celestials -- Angels, Demons, Gods, Reapers -- Heaven/Hell politics,
vessels vs whole-body Mantles (help celestial).
Cosmics -- Elemental reaches or Eldritch patrons; homesickness pulls
home (help cosmic).
Primordials -- Leviathans and Old Ones under Purgatory ash
(help leviathan | help eldritch).
Soul roads (after death)
Human-frequency souls file to Heaven or Hell by reputation / deeds.
Monster-frequency souls file to Purgatory -- Waystation check-in.
Cosmic Elementals banish-reform on their Reach hub.
Celestial vessel death-kicks spirit out of the meatsuit (help deathkick).
Political seats (Dominion) sit at plane hubs -- Gate of Radiance, Mouth of Torment, Waystation, and lesser Reach centers (help dominion).