Seven Heavens

Geography of the Seven Layers

Lunia — The Silver Sea (Hospitality & Defense)

Essence: Foam-lit shores, lanterned piers, harbors that wash away road-grit and resentment.
Features: Foam-lit shores, lanterned piers, harbors that wash away road-grit and resentment.
Pilgrimage: Guests learn to receive help without pride, and to offer it without condescension.  

Mercuria — The Golden Muster (Measured Strength)

Essence: Sun-bright fields, parade grounds, mausoleums of oath-keepers.
Notables: Aurilon, the Golden Spire (Domiel’s tower), honor guards, schools of restraint.
Pilgrimage: Strength is yoked to protection; banners only rise to shield the weak.  

Venya — The Pearly Harmony (Virtue in Common Life)

Essence: Orchards, rivers, villages where goodness is a habit, not a spectacle.
Notables: Xiranthador, the Pearl-Scriptorium (Erathaol’s suboceanic library), councils of mutual aid.
Pilgrimage: Souls practice steady kindness, learn to keep promises in small things.  

Solania — The Crystal Heights (Duty and Self-Purification)

Essence: Cloisters, bell-towers in the mist, mirror-lakes under snowfall.
Notables: Pilgrim cathedrals tended by Pistis Sophia, valleys of the Four Trials (Temperance, Equity, Prudence, Valor).
Pilgrimage: Let go of grasping; take up truth; become quiet without becoming cold.  

Mertion — The Platinum Colloquy (Valor and Remembrance)

Essence: Reliquaries of the honored, hospitals, debating halls where mercy is codified.
Notables: Emperea, City of Tempered Souls (Raziel’s seat), the Platinum Palace of High Remembrance (archives of valiant mercy).
Pilgrimage: Zeal is tempered at a bedside before it bears a blade.  

Jovar — The Glittering Administration (Order and Envoyship)

Essence: Jewelled avenues of record, appellate courts, ministries that choreograph aid.
Notables: Yetsira with Pax Exaltea (Vanguard) (Sealtiel’s fortress), envoy colleges; registry of interplanar accords.
Pilgrimage: Learn to keep watch without growing hard; to keep records without losing heart.  

Chronias — The Illuminated Summit (Ineffable Union)

Essence: A flattened plateau, a golden wall with a gate that never closes; beyond, a garden no one describes the same way.
Notables: Some whisper of a colossal fruit-tree; others of an empty throne; all agree the air tastes like forgiveness. Zaphkiel presides unseen.
Pilgrimage: Those who pass within do not return to tell; their names are remembered in the way the light falls.  

Travel and Access

Astral landfall

Gateways open at sea level in Lunia; ascent is on foot, wing, or by earned conveyance.  

Keys

A kept promise, a letter of reconciliation, a public work completed; arrogance bars shortcuts.  

Bypasses

Attempts to leap layers are gently redirected; Sponsorship is the only sanctioned acceleration, and it adds burdens, not loopholes.  

Inhabitants

• Many Angels with Archons.
• Agathions, Hollyphants, foo creatures, shedu, lammasu, Ki-rin, Adamntine Dragons, Adamntine Dragonborns, Metallic Dragons.
• Petitioners, as Lantern-kindled souls learning steady virtue through service.
• Rare Visitors: Inevitables on treaty business.

Seven Skies

Each layer’s light carries a temperament, silver welcome, golden resolve, pearly calm, crystal clarity, platinum dignity, glittering order, and the unnameable of Chronias.  

Hospice Tides (Lunia)

Waves return a pilgrim’s best intention as courage when needed.  

Resonant Oaths

Sworn promises keep a gentle warmth until fulfilled; broken vows cool the air and dim lanterns until mended.  

Mercurian Muster

War-songs that end in reconciliations; the ground itself objects to cruelty.  

Solanian Bells

One clear tone can still a quarrel long enough for truth to be spoken.

When the multiverse was first created, before any mortals had yet died, Mount Celestia had no archons. The first seven martyrs of law and goodness whose souls arrived from the Material Plane were transformed into the plane's first archons and mandated with the role of ruling its seven layers for eternity. The seven martyrs and their successors continued to rule Celestia as the Celestial Hebdomad.