Summary
Also known as 'Ephemeral Realms', 'Divine Domains', 'Dimensional Planes', and 'Pocket Worlds', these locations are strange sorts of isolated pocket dimensions that exist inside, around, and near Veltrona in a cosmological sense. Why or how they form is a mystery as old as time, though some particularly powerful or inventive people have found ways to make 'artificial' realms. The best known ones are owned by worldly goddesses, such
Seralkono and her
Schlaier. The second most well known, and usually most ubiquitous one, would be
Apoptosis.
Ultimately, Heavenly Realms are characterized by two things: their sizes, and their general behavior.
They can be as small as a household, or as big (if not bigger) than a continent. This often influences what their behavior is like, but not always. Continent-sized ones can host entire 'worlds' within them, hence the 'pocket world' name. This might mean anything from very active terrain, to functional ecosystems, or even people formulating civilizations.
There are some prevailing, but hard to prove, theories that a number of species (sapient or not) on Veltrona actually came from these pocket worlds. It does explain some of the eclectic evolutionary pathways that emerge, though that may simply be wishful thinking. For the most part, the reverse appears to happen the most: things from Veltrona end up trapped inside a pocket world, and so survive and develop in isolation.
Where they appear is often random, and again, entirely dependent on the specific Heavenly Realm being spoken of. Some have predictable, almost cyclical, appearances, creating pathways to certain locations, or even melding the edge of its territory with Veltrona's own land mass. Whether seamlessly connecting, creating a violent rift, or otherwise, just detecting the presence of them can be tricky. Actually going in, or coming out, is itself something of an ordeal more often than not.
Some of these realms are hospitable, others are so lethally dangerous that just walking into them can kill a person. Thus, for as rich and bountiful as they sound, the inability to know what each one is like makes dealing with them extremely hazardous. Still, that doesn't stop the most curious of minds, or the reckless ones who see only the profitable gains they could make.
Although it doesn't appear in common scholarly discourse in modern times, Heavenly Realms are something that are believed to have a connection to
the Imperium's former World Gate device. The prevailing theory is that the World Gate was meant to connect to these 'pocket worlds', but at its stage of development, could only reach to the other gate made at what is now
the Barrier Sea. Sadly, little physical evidence of this exists anymore, and what can be found is largely just speculation. However, it would explain the enormous device's purpose, as it seemed ridiculous something of such a magnitude would only teleport people a few ten thousand miles away.
Then again, its makers may have simply been inexperienced with teleportation based
magical arts.
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