ZEITGEIST Celestials?

[Bercilak]

Hi folks,
My group is almost through the Crypta in adventure 4, and they had some questions last night that I didn't know how to answer:

*Where did Somnia come from, and how/why did she wind up in the Vault?
*More generally, where do celestials come from in Zeitgeist? Are they associated with a specific plane?

Thanks for any insights y'all have or explanations of how you answered these kinds of questions in your games.

--Berc

 

[skotothalamos]

It's been a while, but as I recall, I decided that she arrived before the Zeitgeist solar system was cut off from the rest of the multiverse, and carried that forward for anything else we ran into that connected to the "normal" D&D planes

 

[RangerWickett]

A key conceit of ZEITGEIST is that, unlike your typical D&D setting, you can't just pop over to the afterlife for a spot of tea to assemble a catalog of angels and such. People have theories about the rest of the universe, but it's unreachable, except for very brief manifestations. Some extraplanar beings were on this world a few thousand years ago, and they persist. Devils and angels and such can't go back to their home when they die, so if they'll sorta dissolve into the landscape and then reconstitute as a new being. Sometimes they keep bits of their old memories.

The Clergy understands that phenomenon, so they built the Crypta to trap those essences. But even they don't know the nature of the Axis Seal. In old interrogations of Ashima-Shimtu and Somnia and their ilk, they no doubt were told that the world used to be connected to other planes, and that some magic stops it now. They might even have old records of hypotheses that the change was linked to the ancient orcs. But it's akin to 19th century folks theorizing what ancient Egypt was like.