Astral realm

Shadow Realm

The Shadow Realm is a strange place, populated with floating islands and ruins and inhabited by [ Demons ]. It only has two spatial dimensions, so creatures can only enter or leave it using special Avatar projections.

Non-Connectivity

The Shadow Realm is not located on the same coordinate system as the outside world; nothing which has a distance limitation can cross into or out of the Shadow Realm. Extradimensional spaces inside the Shadow Realm cannot connect out of it, and vice-versa.

The Shadow Realm is hard for [ Demons ] to Avatar project out of: only when specifically summoned by an effect that can summon demons can they interact with stuff outside the Shadow Realm.

Impossibility

Death, hunger, and fear have no meaning within the Shadow Realm. Neither does gravity, but creatures with souls are pushed downwards by an unstoppable force that resembles gravity, although it's always 1 G in the same direction.

Objects and creatures without souls however, suffer from both a lack of gravity and an impermanence of inertia. Objects and creatures without souls simply released in the air quickly come to a stop. Creatures without souls who jump find theirselves hovering if they attempt to jump more than half their jump distance. Projectiles do -2 damage after the first range increment, and stop in the air after the second. Vehicles have their movement speed reduced depending on how many slower movement modes they have than the one they're using, dividing their speed by two plus that number. Thus, a ship moving All-Out would move at a quarter of the speed.

Two-Dimensionality

The entry points and interiors of Extradimensional spaces inside the Shadow Realm have one fewer dimension: the caster or crafter chooses which to remove.

Creatures in the Shadow Realm view their surroundings from a side view: they can see everything in a 50 meter radius around theirselves, and hear things as far as 100 meters away. No special senses function in the Shadow Realm.

Avatars

When a creature projects an Avatar into a realm, it creates a nearly identical (aside from the change in dimensionality) copy of itself in the realm, with copies of its equipment. It shares memories, personality, and Will Save results with the creature, and in its home realm it seems to be asleep. If the real creature wakes up or otherwise stops projecting its Avatar into the other realm, its Avatar and all the equipment it brought with it vanish completely.

A creature can only have one Avatar projected at a time: attempts to project a new Avatar while one already exists always fail.

It is not possible for a creature to project an Avatar into its own realm.

The Central Node

At the core of the Shadow Realm, there is a large amphitheater. Some effects project you directly into it.

Home Realm

The Home Realm of a [ Demon ] is the Shadow Realm, while the Home Realm of a non-[ Demon ] is the outside world.