The Codex

The Shape of All Things

Here is what no mortal cartographer has ever successfully drawn, though thousands have tried. Read the cosmology chapter by chapter.

Prologue
How to Use This Book Scaffolding, not scripture This is not a core rulebook. There are no new systems players must memorize before play. The mechanics here exist to support planar travel, creatures...
Chapter 1
The Shape of All Things The infinite oblong Here is what no mortal cartographer has ever successfully drawn, though thousands have tried.
Chapter 2
The Material Realm Where physics holds court The Material Realm is not one world. It is infinite worlds - each governed by physics, each separated from the others by vast stretches of Ethereal b...
Chapter 3
The Ethereal World The medium between all things Between all things flows the Ethereal. It is the medium that separates and connects all places. Every plane of existence is surrounded by and connect...
Chapter 4
The Gate Keepers They were not created. They condensed. They were not created. They condensed. Wherever two states of existence press against each other, the boundary develops a logic of its own. That logi...
Chapter 5
The Countless Realms An ecosystem of realities Beyond the Ethereal lie innumerable planes - some vast and eternal, others as fleeting as a half-remembered dream. The Multirealms is not an ordered...
Chapter 6
Divine Gravity Not political. Gravitational. Gods do not float free in the Multirealms. They are fixed. Not in the sense of being incapable of extending influence - gods reach across enormous di...
Chapter 7
Ascension and the Cosmos A resonance ceiling Level 10 is not a power ceiling (see DN Guide). It is a resonance ceiling. The point at which a mortal character has accumulated enough experience, e...