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+====== Planes of Existence ======
+The structure of the world's planar cosmology has been a subject of hot debate within arcane circles for some time. Multiple theories have been proposed, with some of the most prominent being the World Tree and Planar Pancake theories. Despite the differences between these, it is agreed that the various planes of the universe exist in a stack of sorts, with some "above" and some "below" others. This arrangement may or may not be physical - flying high enough up in the Jaernian sky won't take you to the Dreaming, for example, but the bottom-most layer of the Beneath does flow directly into the Void.
+=== Jicania & Trion'kar ===
+These two enigmatic worlds were first proposed to exist by the ancient Torandor scholar Jican Trion. They have recently been proved to exist by the Centralia Mages' Guild, though travel to them is thought to be impossible. They are thought to lie "perpendicular" to the other planes, suffusing them with magic.
+**Jicania** is the plane of wild magic from which all magic, of any form, comes from. How it is generated on this plane is not known, but Jicania is completely composed of raw magical energy. Hypothetically, travel to this plane would result in all magical power for any spellcaster being replenished in an instant, followed by the immediate destruction of an individual's body, mind, and soul by the uncontrolled magical energy there. Jicania is thought to be inhabited by "aether elementals"; beings of pure magic which subsist on it. Aether elementals, if they exist, may be the only life in Jicania. It is a subject of hot debate as to whether Jicania contains infinite magical energy, or if its stores are finite and will be depleted in, perhaps, millions or even billions of years.
+**Trion'kar** is the opposite of Jicania, a plane that grounds and sucks down magical energy. The material of terisium is a direct connection to Trion'kar, making it effective in anti-magic applications. Travel to Trion'kar would mean almost instant death, as every part of an individual would be "imploded" after having every bit of magical potential drained away. It is not known if any form of life exists in Trion'kar. A fringe belief in academia is the "exchange theory", suggesting that Jicania and Trion'kar are not simply source and sink, and that different types of spellcasting transfer energy from one to the other in an exchange, and this constant loop ensures that neither plane will ever be depleted of energy. However, this theory is mostly discounted by mainline arcane scholarship.
+=== The Celestial Planes ===
+=== The Elemental Planes ===
+The Elemental Planes: Where the sources of elemental magic flow and ebb from, various types of magical flux pass through the Planar Sea and collide into the planes of Jaern and Cahyali. In some places, these planes may overlap with ours and create natural portals, allowing elemental beings to enter Jaern/Cahyali.
+=== The Dreaming ===
+[[settings:dreaming|The Dreaming]]: The Dreaming has existed since the dawn of time, when the first dreams were created. The land of the dreaming is the culmination of the dreams, fears, aspirations, hopes, and nightmares of every living thing that dreams.
+=== Cefa'zisto, the Material Planes ===
 [[settings:|Jaern]]: The planar home of Adventurers (also identified as Portal I from the [[Alpha Site]])
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 Infero: The land of the dead, the fallen, once-beautiful plane of Cielo. It is the passing place that souls go to before reaching their afterlife.
+=== The Kurago ===
 [[Kurago]]: A plane of existence attached to most other planes.
 [[Alpha Site]]: The Centralia Guild of Wizzards extra dimensional portal farm.
-The Elemental Planes: Where the sources of elemental magic flow and ebb from, various types of magical flux pass through the Planar Sea and collide into the planes of Jaern and Cahyali. In some places, these planes may overlap with ours and create natural portals, allowing elemental beings to enter Jaern/Cahyali.
+=== The Beneath ===
-Jicania: The plane of terisium, originally discovered by Jican Trion of the University of RaForge on Torandor. Because terisium exists both on the material planes and Jicania, it can possess various multi-planar energy states, giving it magical properties. Jicania itself exists as sort of a grounding plane, where magic drains into. However, this natural property doesn't explain the presence of charged Terisium on Jaern.
-Trion'kar: The plane of wild magic, originally postulated by Jican Trion of the University of RaForge on Torandor. Due to Jicania's properties of being a magical grounding plane, Jican theorized that some sort of catastropic event must occur for Terisium to energize beyond its ground state and exibit multi-planar properties. He believed that there must be a plane of wild and chaotic magic, in a unbound and free state, which is attracted to Jicania like opposite poles of a magnet, and collisions between the two cause Terisium to be charged.
 [[settings:beneath|The Beneath]]: Little is known about this place, as adventurers have only very recently learned of its existence. It seems to be the home plane of demons that exist on Jaern...
+=== The Void ===
+=== Planar Theories ===
 The Planar Sea: The extradimensional space that planes of existence, well, exist in. Theoretically inhabitable to life (that we know of), and there is no current way to travel directly to the Planar Sea.