So new concept, brought out here:
http://shatteredplanes.com/index.php?topic=2157.0Existence put into 'classes.' This was IC, and the classes I tend to keep. Of course the map, I was going off the lore and what I THINK the Void is in, so once I get clarified on the Void, then it'll be correct. Till then, know that it's subject to change. Alright!
So your first question is obviously. "What the hell am I looking at below?" Yes, I know, my writing sucks, doesn't it?
Since it does, I'll go ahead and explain in text.
Map Key:
Cube: This is Existence, ALL of existence. Every last bit of it. Nothing outside of it. Except God, the real god in the RP, The Gnostic God. As well as... Well I'm getting to that. So no, no "MAGICAL LANDS OUTSIDE OF EXISTENCE." If they are OUTSIDE of existence, then it would be outside of the MATERIAL existence. As Orph brought out "Reality." But, I don't think we're going ahead with others, or I believe we aren't.
Inside the Cube of Existence, we have the North/Heaven, the South/Erebus(now destroyed.), The east and west, that the lore says is now destroyed. So really, all we have is Heaven IC. Those are the circley domes you seem.
THEN we have the Top Flat Rectangle in the middle. This is MATERIAL EXISTENCE, Existence as WE/our characters know it. Aka The Dimensional Plane.
Under it (Now this is subject to change, as I really didn't know to begin with.) We have the Void/Non-existence.
And THEN, (I didn't put it here, because it would have just confused the hell out of you.) There would be lines all through the cube, signifying timelines/universes, whatever. Just imagine those are there. Like, a tangled mess of timelines, a yarnball. Picture it inside the cube, around all the other things. So I guess... there should be Cube - Circle - THEN planes and domes, but whatever.
So now you're probably about to ask "WTF are those circles on the bottom and top of the cube then?"
THAT, is what was brought out in the topic the "Classes of Existence."
Classes of Existence"Surgrounded
Grounded/Medigrounded
Subgrounded
Ingrounded
Dualgrounded
Surgrounded: Is ABOVE existence (The cube, real existence.) They are what you have as embodiments, 'gods,' etc. They are above existence and manipulate its forces, but as Embodiments are one force, each to their own. BUT they can be effected by existence as well, as in embodiments effecting other embodiments.
Grounded/Medigrounded: That's US, well, you. Some characters are, well getting to that. The Grounded or Medigrounded are the people in MATERIAL EXISTENCE/Dimensional Plane. They are the ones that can't manipulate forces, and can be manipulated by forces, they have no special abilities in existence. Except to do their everyday normal part of being in it.
Ungrounded: Being Ungrounded is a temporary process of travelling from one point of the Plane of Existence to the next. It's pretty much not existing in the Plane of Existence, but not quite not existing; people ungrounded are still tied to the plane. From there, ungrounded characters can move to any other point on the Plane of Existence (And only this plane, since they're tied to it.). However, this travel is often unreliable and only suitable for very, very long distances otherwise unfathomable to the common mind because the time taken to travel between these two points are completely random.--- Added by Zai
Subgrounded: Now only a few characters are this, in that topic. As well as whoever I or Gaser who helped me come up with the concept deem, give the okay to be such. So this is personal approval class. Anyways, The Subgrounded are BELOW Existence/Cube. They can't manipulate forces, because they aren't above it like Surgrounded. But on the other hand, they can't be manipulated by forces. Such as, Time cannot read their timelines or edit them. Other forces cannot have hold on them, or use their force against them. They can attack them, yes, and even kill them. But because they are below, the roots of existence. Existence tries to keep them alive, so it doesn't come tumbling down. They can die, but they will eventually come back. As they are the 'contradictions,' of Existence, as well as its roots.
Dualgrounded: This, I would ASSUME was the "Perfect," that once lived. Both powers of Subgrounded and Surgrounded, can manipulate forces as well as not be manipulated by them. YET, as you see on both Sur and Sub, they are still 'tied,' to existence, which is what the lines going from the cube to each circle represents.
Being 'tied,' to existence, means all these classes are still bound to existence. They can't go out of it. They're not all powerful. What is?
Ingrounded: This is the class that is outside of REAL existence all together. It's not tied to existence. To where it doesn't have to follow any laws of Existence. And it's both Sub, and Sur. Dualgrounded without being tied. There are only TWO people in this class. Gnostic God and [Classified.]
But there is a way to be Ingrounded.
As brought out in the topic, due to Subgrounded being a contradiction and existence trying to keep it alive. If a Subgrounded was permanently killed as in, spirit killed. As K2 said, re-incarnation would happen to one permanently killed. They would re-join the Gnostic God, and be TRULY re-incarnated to another, without their former life.
THAT IS NOT true for the Subgrounded.
Because they are a contradiction, and their death is a contradiction as well. The two contradictions overpower the one tautology. (The absolute truth/conservation law that says nothing can be created or destroyed.) Then them being destroyed would be a contradiction to that law. But because their existence was already a contradiction, it's two contradictions vs the one tautology which causes Irrationality.
The Tautology would try to save them because it says "Hey, this person can't be destroyed, THAT'S AGAINST ME!"
Whereas the two contradictions are like, "But they have to be killed."
Due to irrationality, they would be neither killed or saved, and become neither alive or dead. They would become a paradox, aka Ingrounded.
Ingrounded is reserved, and almost forbidden. YOU CANNOT HAVE AN INGROUNDED CHARACTER UNLESS YOU HAVE A DAMN GOOD REASON TO BE ONE, AND IT IS A PERSONAL APPROVAL BY BOTH OF US.
Now here's the map.
