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1. Relic Resonance Mirror Resonance Mirror 9 Wondrous Item A small hand mirror of polished void-metal showing not your reflection but your current resonance. Once per day on 10-minute meditation: the DN privately tells the player one true thing about how t ...
2. Relic Resonance Bell Resonance Bell 10 Wondrous Item A small iron bell forged at a planar boundary that rings without being struck when certain cosmological conditions are met. Rings once when a planar boundary is within 300 feet. Rings twice when a G ...
3. Realm The Divine Realms ... and a god's will and the fabric of existence are the same thing. In the upper resonance reaches of the oblong, where belief shapes matter and a god's will and the fabric of existence are the same thing, lie the divine domains. E ...
4. Realm The Quiet Shore ... and the Hall of Perfect Measure - positioned near judgment and death divine resonance. The primary hazard of divine realms is resonance incompatibility. Mortal bodies are not built for the resonance density of the upper reache ...
5. Realm The Storm Throne The Storm Throne Sky-storm divine resonance. Worlds of Norse mythology form in its neighborhood. The Storm Throne appears on both the Realism Gradient and the Divine Gravity plate. A world of Norse mythology is shown positioned ne ...
6. Realm The Forge Eternal ... feel it as mythological conflict. The primary hazard of divine realms is resonance incompatibility. Mortal bodies are not built for the resonance density of the upper reaches. A mortal spending extended time in a divine dom ...
7. Realm The Verdant Court ... with it find it steadily hostile. The primary hazard of divine realms is resonance incompatibility. Mortal bodies are not built for the resonance density of the upper reaches. A mortal spending extended time in a divine dom ...
8. Realm The Golden Field ... the Divine Gravity plate, its sign a sheaf of golden wheat, with the swirl of resonance influence curling around it. Resonance influence is not physical, but gravitational. Material worlds form near resonant divine domains - not ...
9. Realm The Hall of Perfect Measure The Hall of Perfect Measure The scales. Judgment and death resonance in the upper reaches. The Hall of Perfect Measure is marked on the Divine Gravity plate by a set of scales. Between it and the Quiet Shore, a world of Egyptian m ...
10. Realm The Realm of Song ... does not actively threaten most visitors and its fundamental nature (harmony, resonance, the beauty of sound as organizing principle) is not hostile to life. The primary hazard is sensory overwhelm. The Realm of Song is loud in ...
11. Travel Traveling the Realms ... Less experienced travelers sometimes panic at this stage, and panic in a resonance shift is dangerous because strong emotion given physical form is exactly what the Ethereal produces given any encouragement. As the traveler ...
12. Realm The Astral Layer ... consciousness traveling astrally does not require the body to survive the resonance shifts that physical travel demands. A mortal body ascending toward a divine domain might begin to dissolve in the intensity of the resonanc ...
13. Realm The Silver Roads ... impressions of buildings, roads, and forests built from silver mist. These are resonance impressions, the Material world's presence imprinted on the adjacent Ethereal like heat radiating from warm stone. The Silver Roads are the ...
14. Codex · The Shape of All Things Why Upper and Lower Are Lies ... their prayer reaches the Ethereal and finds its way to their god through resonance, not altitude. The metaphor works. The mechanics are just different than imagined. The practical importance: upper and lower are not literal ...
15. Codex · The Gate Keepers What They Are Not What They Are Not They are not judges in the moral sense. They test readiness, resonance, and capacity - not goodness. A deeply good person might be turned back from a divine realm not because they are unworthy but because they ar ...
16. Codex · The Gate Keepers Encountering a Gate Keeper Encountering a Gate Keeper Most planar crossings carry their own resonance as a key. Teleportation spells encode a destination and a purpose. Divine spells carry the authority of the deity who granted them. The Gate Keeper reads t ...
17. Realm The Ethereal World ... cleric's prayer passes through the Ethereal like a thread of intention seeking resonance, moving not in a straight line but along the paths of strongest connection between caster and deity. The Ethereal does not require normal bi ...
18. Realm The Realm of Hunger ... anything else. This is not a magical effect - it is the realm's fundamental resonance expressing through them. Having specific, immediate, achievable purposes while in the Realm of Hunger provides meaningful psychological resi ...
19. Realm The Unnamed Realms ... or element. It is an ecosystem of realities, each defined by its dominant resonance. Every deity that has ever been worshipped - in any mythology, any legend, any game system, any human tradition - exists somewhere in the Co ...
20. Realm The Lower Realms ... range. It is the specific quality of the light it produces - infernal iron's resonance makes the darkness treat it as native, rather than pressing back against it. Protection: the Entropy Ward covers the environmental pressure ...
21. Realm The Furnace Courts ... range. It is the specific quality of the light it produces - infernal iron's resonance makes the darkness treat it as native, rather than pressing back against it. Protection: the Entropy Ward covers the environmental pressure ...
22. Realm The Starving Wastes ... range. It is the specific quality of the light it produces - infernal iron's resonance makes the darkness treat it as native, rather than pressing back against it. Protection: the Entropy Ward covers the environmental pressure ...
23. Realm The Grinding Dark ... range. It is the specific quality of the light it produces - infernal iron's resonance makes the darkness treat it as native, rather than pressing back against it. Protection: the Entropy Ward covers the environmental pressure ...
24. Realm The Depths Below Thought ... range. It is the specific quality of the light it produces - infernal iron's resonance makes the darkness treat it as native, rather than pressing back against it. Protection: the Entropy Ward covers the environmental pressure ...
25. Codex · The Shape of All Things The Fabric of Existence ... In the upper reaches, where divine domains cluster, the fabric thins into resonance. Belief shapes matter. A god's word becomes law not because of power but because the fabric there agrees with their nature. In the lower rea ...
26. Codex · The Shape of All Things The Realism Gradient ... exist at the Ethereal boundaries. Not every soul can survive the shift in resonance. A mortal who walks directly from the Material into the pure divine would find their sense of self dissolving - their thoughts becoming land ...
27. Codex · The Ethereal World What the Ethereal Looks Like ... impressions of buildings, roads, and forests built from silver mist. These are resonance impressions, the Material world's presence imprinted on the adjacent Ethereal like heat radiating from warm stone. Deeper into the Ethereal, ...
28. Codex · The Ethereal World Magic's Highway ... cleric's prayer passes through the Ethereal like a thread of intention seeking resonance, moving not in a straight line but along the paths of strongest connection between caster and deity.
29. Codex · The Countless Realms The Countless Realms ... or element. It is an ecosystem of realities, each defined by its dominant resonance. Every deity that has ever been worshipped - in any mythology, any legend, any game system, any human tradition - exists somewhere in the Co ...
30. Codex · The Countless Realms The Divine Realms The Divine Realms In the upper resonance reaches of the oblong, where belief shapes matter and a god's will and the fabric of existence are the same thing, lie the divine domains. Each god of sufficient power maintains a domain sh ...
31. Codex · Divine Gravity Divine Gravity ... Egyptian mythology is near the Egyptian domains. This is not by design but by resonance - the worlds and gods reinforce each other across the Ethereal membrane in a feedback loop that spans generations. A god's position in the c ...
32. Codex · Ascension and the Cosmos Ascension and the Cosmos 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, enough will, enough weight of deed and story that the Material Realm can no longer ...
33. Codex · Ascension and the Cosmos The Cosmological Mechanism ... close enough. This is the Realism Gradient doing what it does: a being whose resonance outgrows the local density of reality begins to experience the gradient pulling at them. The Material can no longer hold them comfortably at ...
34. Relic Sorrow Stone ... weights. A full stone must be placed in the Realm of Dream or emotional-resonance demirealm, where it absorbs over 1d4 days. A broken stone releases all stored grief at once in a 30-foot radius (WIS Mind save TN 15 or inca ...
35. Relic Astral Map Fragment ... location, which direction the nearest demirealm lies, or what the dominant resonance of local Ethereal currently is. Once per day. Pieces of the same original Map find each other over time - two Fragment holders who come with ...
36. Relic Song Shard Instrument String ... Eater's Song Drain; once per day, a chord creates a 20-foot radius of harmonic resonance for 1 minute in which all allies gain +1 to all saves. The string still plays faintly when the instrument is not being touched. Permanent on ...
37. Plate The Infinite Oblong ... can contain. What is shown here is the structure - the relationships, the resonance tiers, the position of the Ethereal membrane. The infinite continuation in both directions is implicit in the fading at the ellipse's poles. ...
38. Plate Divine Gravity and World Formation ... worlds, but because those worlds and that divine domain share a fundamental resonance that caused them to form near each other. The proximity is a consequence of what they both are, not a decision either party made.