Dominions

Introduction

You know very little about dominions. According to the Wolf in Shadow, at least some of the dominions are open once again.

You don’t really know what that means, but you do know this: whenever you use your newly discovered powers, you can feel yourself drawing that power from somewhere. Your trinkets act as a stepping stone, or perhaps a key, allowing you to call on power from beyond yourself.

Those of you with training in Arcana have at least some passing knowledge of the planes of existence, though you can find no record or recollection of anyone ever referring to the planes as “dominions”. Considering that the creature that spoke of the dominions seemed to exist in some in-between realm, it is difficult to draw any reasonable conclusions without more information.

The Truth

The dominions are metaphysical demi-planes that exist through, and are reinforced by, the collective belief of the uncountable trillions of mortal lives throughout the multiverse. There is theoretically a dominion for anything any large enough group of mortals believes in, anywhere in the multiverse. The most common dominions are those representing physical concepts that can be seen and studied. Steel, Bone, etc. The next most common dominions are those representing concepts that, while not necessarily visible, are provable with evidence. Gravity, Force. There are dominions for combinations of concepts that form their own “meta-concept”. The most common example is Storms – wind, water, lightning, thunder, but Storms are still distinct in the minds of most mortals. There are dominions for concepts that bleed between the first two categories. Physical things better understood than Gravity or Force, or so commonly associated with the physical manifestation of the concept that they become intertwined. Cold (ice/snow), or Wind. The third tier of dominions are those representing mental and emotional concepts that are shared by the mortal races. Rage, Love. These are the hardest dominions to find and bond with. The final group of dominions are the Ephemera. These are partially formed dominions created through minor belief, misunderstandings, logical fallacies, or cultural concepts not intrinsic to the mortal races as a whole. These can rarely be described in a single word or sentence and are not strong enough to allow the formation of dominion bonds.