The Crafted Universe

This reality is quite small when compared to our own by many magnitudes, having a radius less than half that of the Earth's orbit, though that does not mean there is any less world or story to explore here. The concentration of civilizations in such a small area is astonishing to me, for in it were dozens of planets, many of which had large populations at some point in the reality's long history.

And, oh, the history is long--around 1.56 million of your Earth years. Most of that time saw intelligent beings roaming around and between the planets, and so there is a rich well from which to draw stories from. I do not know yet which I will choose to tell you all, but I have my top picks.

But this page is for the wider view of this reality. The shape of it was simple, for it was bounded by a massive sphere of indestructible material that glowed and provided light to all civilizations and ecosystems. Days were universal, and so were nights. The inner wall of the Sphere grew dark and bright once more like your day-and-night cycle, but far more unpredictable. Sometimes, a bright day would give way to a deep, purple night that lasted several Earth days, and other times a day came where the sky was blood red.

Perhaps stranger than that were the planets themselves. They were not spheres, but tetrahedrons. In that reality, the Platonic Solids had magical properties for certain materials, and the planets were constructed of a type of matter that, when arranged in a tetrahedron, had attractive qualities. On a large scale, this simulated gravity, and thus, the surface would have felt normal to our bodies. The surroundings may have been less familiar, with strange creatures accompanying the typical.

There is a deep rabbit hole to be explored regarding the inner rules of this reality. The physical laws were deceptively similar to ours in many ways, though there were several differences that opened the door for sights and objects that you would consider fully magical. I will discuss those in a separate page, but for now I leave you with the simple fact of there having been 27 types of matter and energy in this universe, each with its own properties.

Amongst the chaos of a universe flooded with magic and life, there lied a certain beauty that lurked in the background.

If you want to see my (the author's) introduction to and commentary on this universe, then here's a YouTube video I made about it.