Mystic Realms

Worlds of Adventure

Many of Anton’s stories are written in the multiverse of Mystic Realms, a place of interconnected worlds and parallel timelines. Every world and alternate world can exist within the cosmos of this reality. Worlds of sword and sorcery, of high magic, of dark magic, and magic fading from the realm. A galaxy full of settled solar systems connected by jump gates and starships. A world where superheroes struggle against supervillains in the middle of a media blitz. The lights in one world are never bright enough, and monsters lurk in the shadows. The Mystic Realms are many, and so many more are possible.

Mystic Energy

Mystic energy is the fundamental force that flows like rivers of unseen power permeating all things and everyone. People from different places refer to the energies by different names, such as mana, aether, chi, essence, and ‘the force’, but they all refer to the same primordial power that binds the multiverse together. The twenty major forms of mystic energy are chaos, chemical, cold, decay, earth, electric, fate, heat, holy, necrotic, order, profane, psionic, radiation, sound, time, toxic, vitalic, water, and wind. These forces will settle into places of power called nodes, fonts, or cairns.

Balanced energy flows, composed of all twenty major flows, are pure white. Balanced energy is good and helpful. When the energy goes out of balance the world suffers. In low concentrations, the energies are invisible, but as the energies coalesce, they become visible as threads of color. Each type of energy has an associated hue. Chaos flows are maroon. Cold flows are blue. Decay is tan. Heat is red. Holy is gold. Flows of Fate are violet. Seeing unbalanced flows of colored energy is almost always a bad thing.

The mystic energies create consistent natural laws, arcane practices, and scientific principles that link all realms. Magic and science are equally effective when using mystic energies, making every impossible accomplishment possible through either magical ceremony or technological procedure. 

Arcane worlds have high amounts of energy that are usable by people to change or circumvent reality in their daily lives. In mundane worlds, there is not enough energy readily available, except perhaps in a few places of power. A realm can swing like a pendulum, moving from magical to mundane, because of natural catastrophes, interstellar convergences, major paranormal events, apocalyptic military conflicts, or other planetary shifts of power.

The Void

The Void is the endless space between the realms. A place of ideals where the patterns of existence form. The turning of the seasons. Light and dark. The cycle of life and death. Gravity. The concepts of good and evil. Every aspect of reality exists within the Void. The Mystic Realms gestate from these patterns of creation and form into being by the coalescing of mystic energy.

Inside the Void are the eternal spirits. Sentient, intelligent, and awake in the nothingness. They are waiting for the next time they can enter a realm and exist in physical form. These spirits are the core of existence, the heart of magic, and the reason the realms exist. They have eon-spanning memories of the many lives they have lived and the many worlds they have walked. 

The hope of every eternal spirit is to escape the oblivion of the Void and enter a realm. When a spirit leaves the Void, it joins with a growing embryo. The spirit forgets all memories of previous lives to become a new person unfettered by the past. The spirit grows, lives, and experiences the world. Only after death will the spirit return to the Void and regain its memories. The spirit will see all it has done, the good and the evil, in the fullness of its existence.

Every life lived, and every story told, originates from the Void. Some stories tell of heroes with expectations of greatness, while others show average, everyday people with glory thrust upon them. Sometimes people seem blessed by the secret designs of prophecy, but at other times they appear cursed by misfortune. Regardless, these champions rise to the challenges before them, struggling through adversity to become a force of destiny in their world.

The actions of these champions, all from different realms, unite in a common story that resonates in the Void and moves the multiverse along the spectrum of existence. While worlds rise to greatness and fall into oblivion, the Void will exist eternally for as long as there are spirits willing to walk these worlds and bring dreams into existence.