SUMMARY

    The Cosmic Centre is a majestic floating city located in the Dark Expanse between planes, the only one of its kind in all the universe. Built and engineered by the caretakers, the Centre relies on vast energies of magia to function, this power amplified further by its role as the hub for the Plane Bridges, the portals that connect the many planes of life. No one, except arguably the caretakers themselves, holds dominion over the Cosmic Centre.

    A powerful and inquisitive folk, the caretakers began using their vast powers to explore and study the planes of the universe in the earliest centuries. Out of a sense of morbid curiosity if nothing else, the caretakers sought to discover what would happen if different mortals began interacting with each other. As such, they decided to construct the Cosmic Centre, a city that would serve as the veritable ‘center of the universe,’ and would also prevent the need to travel to the caretaker home plane. In its earliest construction, the Centre relied on massive towers built on the nearest planes to serve as stabilizers of a sort for the energies of magia, but overtime these were not needed. On the city’s completion, the caretakers began inviting mortal folk to inhabit and use the city freely, the first of which were the eldren. Many other folk inhabited and used the Centre and the Plane Bridges over time. After the freewalkers joined the Centre, the caretakers mysteriously vanished from Centre society.

    Due to its role as a hub for all mortal folk to use, the Centre has no true ruler, and the only law that governs the Centre is the Centre Bond, an alliance of like-minded folk whose intent is to use the Centre peacefully. Several centuries after the caretakers’ disappearance, a new force, the Centre Empire, sought to claim lordship over the Centre and all planes, though this attempt ultimately failed.

REGIONS OF THE CENTRE

The Heart of the Centre

    The Centre is described as a ‘tree,’ with all the regions of the city said to be ‘branches.’ At the center of the Centre is the Heart, a large inaccessible dome that serves as the seat of the caretakers. No one has entered the Heart in centuries.

The Grand Entry

    The hub of the Plane Bridge network. The Grand Entry is a large flat region that supports two larger portals and nine smaller portals. Folk of all kinds travel to and fro in this area.

The Star Market

    The main area for commerce in the Centre planes. Anything that can be bought or sold is found here.

The Sky Branch

    The branch of the Centre belonging to the eldren. When the eldren folk split into different cultures, the Sky Branch would later be dominated by the sun eldren.

The Free Branch / The Wander Branch

    The branch once ruled by the Kingdom of the Free and the freewalkers. When the time of the freewalkers ended, the Free Branch was given to the wanderers and the Wandering Kingdom, thus becoming the Wander Branch.

The Leaf Branch

    The branch of the faeries. While flora is found throughout the Centre, the Leaf Branch is quite literally a forest, serving no other purpose than to venerate the faeries own fascination with nature.

The Blood Branch

    The branch of the vamyr folk. Although the vamyr are a firmly recognized folk of the Centre, the Blood Branch has gone largely unused by the vamyr for unknown reasons.

The Spider Branch

    The branch formerly owned by the sumerid. One of the oldest folk of the Centre Bond, the sumerid were wiped out by the freewalkers long ago. Since then, the Spider Branch has been largely abandoned.

The Arrog Branch

     The branch of the dragons, named for the last King of Dragons, King Arrog. Due to their own infighting, the dragons rarely make use of the Arrog Branch unless desperate times call for it. During the Great Dragon Plague, the Arrog Branch was pillaged by various other folk, leaving behind a mess that the dragons never bothered to rebuild.