“Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter
A world of worlds, the Nebula is a vast celestial ocean of primordial dreamscapes. Long stretches of land twist and churn as the tides, pulling and pushing all matter about the cosm in an enigmatic dance. Nestled in this great web are anomolous speckles that gleam hot and glow. Bleeding into the surrounding spaces they fill it, like great hemmorgic cysts in the cosmic wound. These fractured worlds,
shards are a collection that have been long forgotten, banished― or worse- stolen.
People of these small lands sometimes live out their entire lives ignorant of the mysteries beyond their realms. Isolated by
edges, these strong barriers can keep a incurious mind safe from the chaos of the Nebula, and the
void between worlds. Even so, even worlds on the edge of the Nebula collide with some frequency with their neighbors, causing havoc and drama between the inhabitants.
With the lastest great imperial age fading to a meer blemish in the primordial dust- hidden far from living memory, a new age of exploration has begun. Lands long isolated by waning powers have become exposed once more to the chaos of the multiverse, inspiring adventurers to leave their realms in expedition. Glory, riches, honor, knowledge all await the opportunist who treads the abandoned paths between the stars. New stories await those that look to the stars in awe and forge their own paths, bringing new discoveries and uniting multitudes in the boundless reaches of the Nebula.