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Cheanannais - Cosmic:
Ful's transcendent world and easily the most complicated to explain. Cheanannais isnt actually the cosmic world itself, but was originally the moon of the cosmic world which was renmark. In the first age guthix discovered xau tak feasting on the planets core, he used the elder sword to cut him away but shattered the planet into pieces doing so. With the planet gone, the moon became the new center of gravity and so the fragments began orbiting around the moon instead as its new ring and pseudo-moon system. Infact i've mapped out it's orbital paths:
Cheanannais is homeworld of the fairies and pixies, around this is a ring system of cosmic dust which is the cosmic entities realm. Orbiting the moon is the fragments known as the enchanted valley (holding the court of spring, home of the ents and centaurs) and the land of holly and hawthorn (holding the court of autumn). Around the sun in long rotating eliptical orbits are the land of sunlight (holding the court of summer) and the land of snow (holding the court of winter). These orbits are made so every summer the land of sunlight comes closest to gielinors plane and the land of snow the furthest, and visa versa in the winter. Plus every spring and autumn, the 2 lands come closest to the land of holly and hawthorn for the ceremony of passing the seasons (in line with 2011's easter event). As some final notes, the impling home of puro puro is on cheanannias (they're another native species) and the shooting stars DnD that sometimes hit gielinor are also much smaller pieces of renmark shrapnel still flying through the cosmos, meaning the star sprites inside them are also natives of renmark
Cheanannais is homeworld of the fairies and pixies, around this is a ring system of cosmic dust which is the cosmic entities realm. Orbiting the moon is the fragments known as the enchanted valley (holding the court of spring, home of the ents and centaurs) and the land of holly and hawthorn (holding the court of autumn). Around the sun in long rotating eliptical orbits are the land of sunlight (holding the court of summer) and the land of snow (holding the court of winter). These orbits are made so every summer the land of sunlight comes closest to gielinors plane and the land of snow the furthest, and visa versa in the winter. Plus every spring and autumn, the 2 lands come closest to the land of holly and hawthorn for the ceremony of passing the seasons (in line with 2011's easter event). As some final notes, the impling home of puro puro is on cheanannias (they're another native species) and the shooting stars DnD that sometimes hit gielinor are also much smaller pieces of renmark shrapnel still flying through the cosmos, meaning the star sprites inside them are also natives of renmark
23-Apr-2018 03:19:16
..::[ The Spiritual Planes ]::..
All of that is just the physical universe, there is actually even more beyond that! As i said the abyss is basically a giant bubble dimension of empty space, sitting within an even larger emptiness known as the void. This is just a white empty void as far as can be seen. Guthix once used the elder sword to cut through the periphery (the border membrane between the void and the abyss), shattering the sword and accidentally releasing the void pests into the universe
Note, this is NOT a 3d representation. The 2d disc is the 3d universe, everything outside is extra dimensional beyond the physical (confusing i know). This is kinda like the spiritual axis
Beyond the physical universe are 2 spiritual planes. First is the spirit plane where the gorajo and summoning energy comes from. The second is the afterlife, and is where the spirits of living beings go after they die, the afterlife seems to be different for every person based on their beliefs. Running from the spirit plane to the afterlife, is the river noumenon, which passes through the physical universe. The point at which the river and the physical universe cross is the underworld and is the work place of death, icthlarin and amascut seen in nomad's elegy, with deaths office being the gateway from the physical universe to this inbetween place
Put simply, the river flows from pre-life, through the physical realm and onto the afterlife
All of that is just the physical universe, there is actually even more beyond that! As i said the abyss is basically a giant bubble dimension of empty space, sitting within an even larger emptiness known as the void. This is just a white empty void as far as can be seen. Guthix once used the elder sword to cut through the periphery (the border membrane between the void and the abyss), shattering the sword and accidentally releasing the void pests into the universe
Note, this is NOT a 3d representation. The 2d disc is the 3d universe, everything outside is extra dimensional beyond the physical (confusing i know). This is kinda like the spiritual axis
Beyond the physical universe are 2 spiritual planes. First is the spirit plane where the gorajo and summoning energy comes from. The second is the afterlife, and is where the spirits of living beings go after they die, the afterlife seems to be different for every person based on their beliefs. Running from the spirit plane to the afterlife, is the river noumenon, which passes through the physical universe. The point at which the river and the physical universe cross is the underworld and is the work place of death, icthlarin and amascut seen in nomad's elegy, with deaths office being the gateway from the physical universe to this inbetween place
Put simply, the river flows from pre-life, through the physical realm and onto the afterlife
23-Apr-2018 03:20:10
..::[ Alternate Universes ]::..
We're still not done, beyond even this are entierly alternate universes! There are only a few we know of so far but there could be infinite for all we know
First is the main universe we know. Being a landscape of planets aligned to runes, this infact makes the whole universe a "rune-scape", this giving meaning to the games name
Next we have the dimension of disaster where you where never born, as such all the bad guys won in every quest. Because of this, there is a far higher death rate and not much life coming into the world, so it has a smaller spirit plane but a larger afterlife to show this. I've also named this as being scape-rune. When looking at scape rune you have to realise something, its just another gielinor that ended up differently, its not another world in the same universe but is clearly an alternate universe. I say its the dimension of disaster cus if you look at old random events like prison pete or popping balloons, they even look like they're in the dimension of disaster. Also i know jagex likely has no idea where to place this thing, so i say its the best design to link it to an already well established alternate universe and this is the best one
Lastly we have the dimension of the damned, only used for 1 failed event but i worked out something cool for it. This is a universe where the river noumenon fell apart, cutting the worlds off from the spiritual planes. Because of this those who die have nowhere to go and so just stay on the ever rotting world. Likewise with the flow cut off, the anima and spirit planes began to dwindle and stagnate, creating a truely dead and festering universe, the deadscape. Note i do know deadscape was some old private server or something, but i honestly dont care about that, its a cool and perfect name
You COULD put osrs here but they'd probably be annoyed at this. Plus personally i dont believe the 2 games should be seperate
We're still not done, beyond even this are entierly alternate universes! There are only a few we know of so far but there could be infinite for all we know
First is the main universe we know. Being a landscape of planets aligned to runes, this infact makes the whole universe a "rune-scape", this giving meaning to the games name
Next we have the dimension of disaster where you where never born, as such all the bad guys won in every quest. Because of this, there is a far higher death rate and not much life coming into the world, so it has a smaller spirit plane but a larger afterlife to show this. I've also named this as being scape-rune. When looking at scape rune you have to realise something, its just another gielinor that ended up differently, its not another world in the same universe but is clearly an alternate universe. I say its the dimension of disaster cus if you look at old random events like prison pete or popping balloons, they even look like they're in the dimension of disaster. Also i know jagex likely has no idea where to place this thing, so i say its the best design to link it to an already well established alternate universe and this is the best one
Lastly we have the dimension of the damned, only used for 1 failed event but i worked out something cool for it. This is a universe where the river noumenon fell apart, cutting the worlds off from the spiritual planes. Because of this those who die have nowhere to go and so just stay on the ever rotting world. Likewise with the flow cut off, the anima and spirit planes began to dwindle and stagnate, creating a truely dead and festering universe, the deadscape. Note i do know deadscape was some old private server or something, but i honestly dont care about that, its a cool and perfect name
You COULD put osrs here but they'd probably be annoyed at this. Plus personally i dont believe the 2 games should be seperate
23-Apr-2018 03:20:32
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