Kevak: I have an idea:
Kevak: Three types of universes.
Kevak: Primary, secondary, trinary.
Hugo Luman: One of the ideas I'm currently working with is spirit plane being initially all vague and unstructured, but from prolonged contact with material plane, structure has begun to leak in, just as weirdness has begun to leak out
Kevak: Primaries are rare, but link to secondaries nearby. Secondaries link to trinaries and primaries.
Kevak: Secondaries can only link to one primary and two trinaries.
Kevak: Trinary can link to as many secondaries as it is close to.
Kevak: Primaries are the more solid realities. Like earth.
Hugo Luman: I dunno about making the scope that big. The largest I'm currently considering is a 3-plane sandwich, with the spirit plane, material plane, and a super-imposed in-between one
Hugo Luman: But you should totally bring it up in the thread
Kevak: Secondaries vary from afterlifes, to foggy indistinctness, to other crap.
Kevak: Trinaries are the rather alien planes.
Kevak: Travel between planes would be designated as absurdly difficult to downright impossible.
Kevak: A primary dweller wouldn't be able to survive a secondary or trinary due to their lack of being reality.
Kevak: Secondary could not survive trinary due to alienness but could survive a primary.
Kevak: Trinary could survive their home trinary, secondaries, and primes, but not other trinarys.
Hugo Luman: Hmm. Sounds like we'd wind up with more than 2 fundamental kinds of beings, though, which could be messy
Kevak: Not really.
Kevak: Their plane of origin is their real definer.
Kevak: Earth prolly is connected to a "natural" plane (combo of afterlife and general nature stuff) and an emotional plane ( thoughts and emotions manifest.
Hugo Luman: Here's probably the most cosmology-intensive post so far:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=148998.msg6074934#msg6074934Kevak: I predict those are the two main likely spirit types.
Kevak: Most people want something close to home.
Kevak: Specifics for what spirit does prolly depends on the spirit.
Kevak: Trinaries would just be the more alien.
Kevak: Since secondaries tend to have some link to their primary.
Hugo Luman: For now, I think I want to keep the cosmology a bit simpler
Hugo Luman: But we'll see as this half-baked idea spends more time in the oven