They never stopped to think, humans. Generation upon generation of world altering changes led to the moment it broke. The World Stone, shattered into elemental pieces. With resources dwindling and an ever increasing thirst for control of their physical realm, those that came before uncovered the manifestation binding our spirits to their existence. Evil, no that is too crude a term, perhaps it was chaos that poured into the crack they chipped with their meddling. Whatever we might call it now, that corrupting force weakened the bonds that had kept physical reality and spiritual forces coupled and balanced for eternity. Unbound and unbalance the World Stone shattered in a dimensional explosion that scattered matter and energy across space and time.

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Instant death and renewal. New states of being, separate and fragmented, formed. Numerous elemental aspects swirled and gathered together, forming shard-like, energy infused splinters of physical matter. Separated in space and time and no longer in balance like the World Stone, these shards attracted matter and energy attuned to them. From these energy infused dust clouds formed the precursors to what we now call the Realms.  

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Undisturbed and protected from outside influence, eras of time passed and Realms grew. On larger Realms, ancient and eternal Celestial spirits, which had traveled the spirit path since the shattering, poured their energies into physical living forms. Their Shén energy molded lifeless matter into living manifestations in their likeness. Eons passed and mighty clan-like civilizations, each with behaviors and motivations guided by traits of their Celestial, rose in each Realm.

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It has been 174 cycles and 60 rotations since that history ended. Since the first Binding. Like increasingly oppositely charged entities, Realms drew together enough for their realities to bleed into each other. These points of contact between Realms, Anchor Points, are strong in Shén imbued material. Their presence, and the fine-line between the spiritual and physical there, afforded each Celestial a gateway to an expanded spirit path, giving them access to unclaimed and unattuned Realm fragments. Guided by their Celestial, each Clan learned how to weave physical space together with energetic bindings at Anchor Points. Enough bindings between a Home Realm and a Realm Fragment and Celestials are able to suture them permanently into a larger whole with increased matter and energy at their disposal.

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The Realm Stone was the key. An obelisk infused with their crystalized Shén, once manifested onto a discovered fragment, serves as a source for a Celestial to channel their Shén through the spirit path and in-turn manifest avatars to secure and dominate Anchor Points. Six Home Realms, including my own have discovered how to manifest Realm Stones. As our Home Realm dimensions continue to bleed into each other, frantic conflicts ensue around anchor points whenever Realms meet across the void.

Now, each Celestial postures their Realm for the day when Home Realms, growing ever larger and more powerful as they bind Realm Fragments, will collide.

 

When that day befalls us I fear for the survival of my histories, written and recorded here.

 

Until then, Spirits Rise, and we rise with them...