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If I had to guess, the planes are other dimensions of the existing world. Kind of like the Nevernever in Dresden Files or Soul Society in Bleach. Kind of. Maybe more like that Layers of the World thing in Nasuverse? The Astral Plane is mentioned in Absol-ution II, and you go into it in the next two parts. Well technically, you go into Etherspace, which is described as a fictional construct, and a mental projection in the Astral Plane. quote:
Hollow: Not Deny, not Deni, but D.E.N.N.I.E. Phantom. It has to do with the engine. Digital Elliptical Narrow Navigation in Etherspace. Galrick: Rather than travelling through space like the Alteon, or the Void like the Network Void ships, among other things, the Phantom travels through a fictional construct called Etherspace. «You»: Wait, it travels through a fictional construct? How's that work? Galrick: Very improbably... «You»: Right. Hollow: It is not quite fictional. Etherspace is a mental projection created in the Astral Plane and maintained by the collective minds of all that travel that plane. Hollow: You can get between any two points in the physical realm through etherspace. And a bit of flavor text: quote:
Ascended Nightmare Rook: Lord, we have an incursion... ???: Your queen is getting more daring? How droll. Ascended Nightmare Rook: No, my lord. This incursion comes from beyond the Nightmare Realm. The technology is unlike any I have ever seen. ???: I have tracked it. ???: Primitive... but potent. Magic and Technology combined. What is the origin of this vessel? Ascended Nightmare Rook: If I were to venture a guess, I would say Lore is the most likely origin multiverse. ???: Aye. That seems likely. The ship's trajectory suggests a return to that multiverse, though outside the Lorian sector. ???: Well, Lorian interlopers... you and your world are about to learn who rules the Etherspace. Prepare to take Lore out of spacetime... The monsters inside are described as "Ethereal," and the can partially phase out of our reality to reduce the damage we do. Absolution can be found in General Herous's tower in Granemor. Then there's the Nightmare Realm, which can normally only be reached by lucid dreaming, but the Aracknight can just open a portal to get there. Not sure how that works. Anyways, hoped that helped a little.
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