ARSCHEI GEOGRAPHY
The geography of Arsgri is of the orbital paths around the Observer in the center. It is divided into Depths, forming these orbital paths, Realms, sharing the same flow of time, Worlds/Areas, sharing a physical location, and Domains, which are geomorphologically, biologically or climactically distinct or had been claimed and shaped by a resident G-d.
Upper Arsgri
Upper Arsgri, also known as The Shallows, is the largest and most populated depth of Arsgri, home to many bustling communities and lands relatively far from the influence and reach of the powers at the center. It's characterized by its incredibly vast realms, low abundance of G-ds, and a relatively slow passage of time.
Its more well-known realms include Emera, The Nebulae Lands and the Port Cities.
Some examples of areas that can be found in the Shallows are the Greenplains (within Emera), Steel Spheres, the Pendulum (within Nebulae Lands), Veritas (within Nebulae Lands), the Faraway Town (Within the Port Cities) and New Vitravnen's seat of power, Koriatty
The Slopes
The Slopes, also called Crossroads (rel. Siegwa) are a more precarious and unpredictable depth that serves as the mingling point of creatures of the shallows and of the deep. The passage of time in the Slopes is far faster than in the Shallows, and they are substancially older; being the first area that contains some memories of the ancient universe. These influences clash here, into a swirl of the old and the new, the mundane and the great, and produce clashing landscapes that can be either, or both at once.
Some examples of well-known realms in the Slopes are the Sharpened Dark, Turbulent Space and the Narrator's Tree. It is also home to the Archei Ocean, that spans through the Slopes and eventually turns into rivers allowing travel into the Deep.
Some notable areas of the Slopes include the Wordthief lands and The Lawed Lands.
Deep Arsgri
Deep Arsgri, also simply known as The Deep, is the smallest depth of Arsgri but also the most dense with divinity and power, being a violent and clashing place of influences and chaos. It is the birthplace of most G-ds and the home of the ancient creatures and cultures, and the depth deeply marked by the Void. It contains the City of Arsgri and the Elder Ocean.
The Depth is split into four realms: the Voidsurrounds, the Riversides, Starling Cove and and Memory of the Deep. Notable areas include The Void Sea Crown, Ancient City Grounds, The Frozen World and the Great Delta.
The Voidsurrounds
The Voidsurrounds (rel. arsgri), alternatively called the Edge, is the area closest to the Void, containing the edge that marks the drop off Arsgri and into the Abyssaal. Here, the influence of the Observer is at its highest, and power runs deep through the earth, and many G-ds make their home here.
It includes areas such as the Frozen World, Old Space and the Void Sea Crown, and domains like:
The Riversides
The Riversides, also called Kingsriver, is an area within Deep Arsgri where the rivers of the Arschei Ocean flowing down into the Observer meet and conjoin, the areas within permeated with their influence. It is the home of the City of Arsgri and its Ancient City Grounds, as well as offshoots like the Anskary bridge and many realms of Elder G-ds. It is an ancient seat of power within Arsgri.
Starling Cove
An area saturated by stars and marred by calm rivers on the final stages of their journey to the Elder Ocean.
Memory of the Deep
A strange land.
The most well known areas of the Memory of the Deep are the Old Wastes and Crimsong.
Abyssaal
Realms beyond Arsgri's edge, where only the Void reigns.
It contains only shattered remains of worlds that have split from the body of Arsgri and met a horrible fate, and other entities soon to be devoured and erased from existence. The only stable domains are those wholly of the Void, made for the Void by its divine followers, where the creatures of the Void may rest and live in community, such as the Garden of Death.
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