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A '''life form''' is any [[life|living]] entity. ...vised to try to classify them in a useful manner into defined categories. By far the most widespread and well developed is one particular system of [[et ...

...s]] connected to each other but jointly spanning multiple [[world]]s and [[cosmos|cosmoi]], each city, or [[eidopolis]], apparently representing a particular ...conomic purposes, while others remain dangerous wilderness, or are claimed by petty tyrants as their private domains. ...

...[[intelligence|intelligent]] (or not) life forms to also be distinct life forms in their own right. ...least arguably) living, but abiotic. The [[magic]]al process of bestowing life on a formerly inanimate object is known as [[animation]]. ...

...es of magic, have significant effects on life and events everywhere in the cosmos. Each [[plane|chore]] of the cosmos consists in actuality of three parallel [[space]]s. Most creatures are onl ...

...to their secondary species but lacking in their primary. Any damage taken by a turnskin in one form will remain present in the other, which more than on ...e an usual resistance to physical damage, though almost always accompanied by a particular weakness that can overcome it. Furthermore, all turnskins hav ...

...2C8;ʦɑːnteɪ/}}) is a type of creature in the [[cosmos]] of [[Dverelei]] that has some features taken from another creature, makin ...heir kaptara parts around, choosing which part of their forms are replaced by the features of their kaptara creatures. Not all tzanteii develop this abi ...

...ttle beyond their layouts. Alternate worlds can even exist in different [[cosmos|cosmoi]], and possess entirely different [[physics|physical]] laws than the ...rlds may indeed be [[parallel]] in the [[geometry|geometrical]] sense, but by no means all are, and some planes may also be geometrically parallel that a ...

...ons, though anyone leaving the cities is subject to the changes as usual. By no means all Diddu's inhabitants live within the cities, however, and those Diddu is shaped roughly like three [[sphere]]s, connected by narrow necks of land. Various protrusions project from each of the spheres ...

...ng force behind biological evolution is [[natural selection]], the process by which organisms with traits that tend to make them slightly more likely to ...rganisms to be placed in the same taxa. In any case, even where such life forms did not originally arise through typical evolutionary processes, they may b ...

...f the top [[predator]]s of their [[world]], azagogs are widely feared even by the veigur's [[undead]] inhabitants, though they are seldom hostile to [[hu ...e bottom of the head is a mouth, rendered almost invisible when not in use by its backward-pointing direction and its anterior position. At the front of ...

...imensional]] dungeons that it calls [[cloister]]s. Jhero Magoni is served by a [[archdemonic cult|cult]] that emulates its behavior on their own [[world Jhero Magoni has three fat, snakelike bodies, joined at the "waist" by broad horizontal connections, the largest of the three in the middle. It u ...

...d other [[terrain]] features. About 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water; the land is traditionally grouped into six or seven [[continent]]s, ...d its compounds, the next most abundant [[element]] being oxygen, followed by silicon. However, much of the iron is in the core, and to a lesser degree ...

...m the exterior. Short of [[divination]], only by entering the crystal (or by contact with something that has) can an investigator discover anything abou ...) If the part of the crystal world that an object would enter is occupied by a solid object, entry is impeded unless the force exerted is sufficient to ...

...ense amounts available to onirarchs, magic tends to be a pervasive part of life in onirarchies. They are full of magically altered and wholly artificial c ...the particular workings of dream magic, onirarchies are confined to the [[cosmos]] of [[Ses]]—at least, if something analogous exists elsewhere, it wo ...

...(Doun)|demon]]-haunted [[Gray Realm]] and the Empire of [[Berdacha]], led by amorphous beings called [[glayhock]]s. The highly [[magic]]al [[Guesederac Life in Norg centers around a panoply of [[god (Doun)|god]]s worshipped by the citizens of the empire, known collectively as the [[Chalari gods]]. Ge ...

...superior to that of the vast majority of inhabitants of the [[world]] or [[cosmos]] where it exists. Indeed, gods are often said to be [[omnipotent|omnipote ...question whether a being qualifies as a god the fact that it is worshiped by mortals is a strong point in its favor.) Many gods do indeed return their ...

...arent communication with each other, any two Aarvenites will call the city by the same name, and recognize the name if they hear it. (They seem, however ...gh for whatever reason, some objects seem prone to deviate from their base forms significantly more than others. Buildings, for example, generally turn int ...

...different [[world]]s and [[plane]]s, some of them even leading to other [[cosmos|cosmoi]] entirely, making the university a [[compit]]. The portals have be The Ochamecon was founded twelve hundred and eighty [[year]]s ago by a coalition of [[mage]]s, on property acquired from a wealthy [[alchemist]] ...

...ects the location or condition of the other. Bindings take many different forms and can have many effects, but the underlying principles seem to be the sam ...ct. (In practice, of course, a fixed location in space is only fixed in [[cosmos|cosmoi]] with [[absolute reference frame]]s.) Most often, the location is ...

...ces have been cast there. Plex has thus become a bizarre melting pot of [[life form]]s from multiple planes and cosmoi, all of whom are exiled criminals o ...st very humanlike. In fact, going beyond that, the fact that most (though by no means all) of its exposed flesh is pale pink in color, and the majority ...