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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 7261930" data-attributes="member: 284">I call my current Homebrew campaign "The Shattered Realms".   Here is the origin of everything, including the planet the campaign takes place on: Cosmology of the MultiverseThis explanation for the structure of the local multiverse is the one most favored by the various druidic sects. Clerics tend to prefer a more deity-centric version, while Warlocks tend to favor a version that places their patron at the top of the celestial pecking order. Wizards as a whole do not favor any specific model of the universe, instead various wizardly organizations and individual sages create highly detailed models that reflect their individual views on how the multiverse functions. The only thing that all the models created by wizards have in common is that they all place arcane magic as the predominant force in the universe. The druids use a “top down” model of the multiverse, with the Source at the top and the Terminus at the bottom. All of creation lies between them, created by the interplay of energies between the two.The SourceAlso known as the “Wellspring of Creation” this is the source of all magic, all life, and indeed all of creation. It continually radiates the energy of creation that set the universe in motion. No creature, not even a deity, can survive the overwhelming Primal energies that radiate from the Source. They must first be filtered through several planes of reality (planes mostly composed of pure energy) before they can be safely absorbed by a god, and the gods can then convert the Primal energies into Divine magic and imbue their mortal followers with a fraction of that magic in return for their worship. (Worship allows a god to increase their capacity for storing and using Primal energy, which in turn increases their power.)The TerminusThe counterpart of the Source, it is the Final Destination, the Sphere of Ultimate Annihilation, the End of All Things. Everything the Source creates, the Terminus devours. It is the tension between the two that caused the infinite planes of reality to come into being. Without the constant Entropic energies from the Terminus the Primal energies emitted by the Source would never break down into the mundane matter and various forms of elemental energy that make up the all of existence. Magic itself is a byproduct of the decay of Primal energy. The Great CycleNew planes of reality are continuously created as the Primal energies released by the Source decay. While they may seem eternal to a mortal, even the various planes of existence go through a cycle of birth, growth, maturity, decay, and eventual destruction as the entire plane falls into the Terminus and is consumed. It may take millions of years, but it is the eventual fate of every plane of existence. There is more, including a specific event ("The Shattering") based on this cosmology that altered the campaign world into its current state.   This is just the basics.</blockquote>

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