Principles of the Cosmos

The universe is a finite bubble of Order suspended in an infinite ocean of Nothing. It is not created, but eternal.

• The Veil PrincipleThe fluid space between places that connects every plane, a fog whose face changes towards each plane it borders and which takes its price from travellers, most often in what they remember.
• The Outside PrincipleThe reality beyond the ordered cosmos, past the Boundary, from which the Beyonders come.
• Resonant Continuity PrincipleThe scholars' account of the person as a continuity of Pattern, Echo, and Record, true but known to few outside the highest scholarship; no being on Caeldon carries a detachable, immortal soul.
• Fate-Songline Doctrine PrincipleDefines imposed songlines, Fate on the Material Plane, and their interaction with agency, probability, and continuity, and how little of it the world's peoples know.
• Knowledge of the Cosmos PrincipleHow much the world's peoples know of each tier of the cosmos, from the Primes and the Dark Entities down to the Material Plane, how that knowledge grows from era to era, and what medieval people…
• The Dissonance PrincipleThe out-of-tune reflection of the Material Plane, held in the Veil close against it: the world's own shadow, a maze that swells and fades against the true world, known to almost no one.