Earth Realm

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Introduction

The Earth Realm is the realm where you are reading this. It is the realm where most Humans live and die.

There are many other Realms, which share characteristics with one another but also have unique qualities. The reason they are grouped (see The Otherplace) and Earth Realm is not, is because the rules of Magic differ significantly in Earth Realm when compared with the common rules of Magic in most if not all other realms. There are many speculated reasons for this, but no real definitive answer to the question "Why is Earth Realm different?" has ever been reached.

Description

One man once described The Earth Realm as "mostly harmless". This is accurate, however The Fae would append "... and totally misguided at this point." to that statement and that too would be entirely accurate. Blissfully unaware of how close it came to destruction in around 2013 The Earth Realm trundles on in a bizarre situation in which the vast majority of its denizens are utterly miserable - it has been this way since the event the Fae call The Gift Given and this injustice is one they are sure to endeavor to correct now that The Return is underway.

The population of mostly Humans are largely unaware of anything to do with The Otherplace and go about their dull lives in such a fashion as to depress one another and form a covenant of self-subjugation. There are however some Sensitives who have developed a relationship with other forms of the creature and with The Otherplace. There are no official numbers for obvious reasons but broadly it breaks down as follows. In [The Earth Realm]] 1/5000 Human babies are born with the ability to become a Sensitive (through training, trauma, experience, luck, or combination of any of these). Of those 1 in 5000 most will not "make it"; they will hide from their abilities. Very few will accept and nurture them to any semblance of usefulness. Still, the potential is there were the construct of Human society alter to accommodate and not alienate such abilities.

For comparison around 1/10000 creatures in The Earth Realm have Fae Blood (they usually never even know unless subjected to The Right To Be - see, The Fae for more information on all of this). Around 1 of 100000 of those with Fae Blood are "true Fae" - that is to say "awake and active" as Fae and 1 in 10000 of those Fae are members (by blood, not opt-in) of The Aristocracy and a select few of those are Fae Kings and Queens. At the very top on the pyramid sit the High Kings and Queens who rule on The High Council (full name now is "The Concordian High Council" - they serve The God-Emperor, when they are not plotting against one another in an almost playful way). Many "true Fae" are The Joined Fae often referred to a "Changelings" and they are multi-dimensional beings capable of existing in The Earth Realm and in The Near Umbra and even The Far Umbra at the same time - the higher up the "hierarchy" a Fae is, the easier multidimensional living becomes. As the numbers illustrate, Fae themselves in any form are rare, ranking Fae even more so by a huge degree, and High Kings and Queens are almost never seen in The Earth Realm. When they are, the Humans had better look busy. It is important to note that The Fae exist in a state of near-hive mind, they are in constant communication with each other - less through language, and more through portent and omen - a form of communication it is near impossible to convey to Humans.

In terms of "other creatures" they do exist on The Earth Realm; Elementals hide still in deep dark forests, the oceans, and even within the flames of lit fires (although they rarely show themselves to Humans, Demons and Angels are still battering holy shit out of one another for reasons they have both since long forgotten and tend to keep it under wraps and off of the radar of The Fae and Humans alike.

The only creatures which no longer inhabit the Earth Realm are Dragons (some of whom do lurk in the Far Umbra still, but are very, very rare sights indeed), Shadow Dragons (the face and army of The Nothing have been eradicated from Earth Realm at this time and very, very few even survive in The Otherplace - there are presumably an infinite number lurking just outside The Concordian Barrier testing the defenses and waiting for a chance to invade once more though...) and Leviathon which appear to be, somehow and for reasons unknown, native to The Endless City and are only ever reported there; something which is a common occurrence at the time of writing.

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