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"Aeonic Tower wakes from prior slumber old and anew. Aeonic Tower carries restless spirits along battered coastlines old and anew. Aeonic Tower orchestrates and fashions the heavens old and anew. Aeonic Tower orchestrates and fashions the oceans old and anew. Aeonic Tower orchestrates and fashions the stars old and anew. Aeonic Tower orchestrates and fashions the lands old and anew. Aeonic Tower births an oasis old and anew. Aeonic Tower dances upon wooden drums old and anew. Aeonic Tower breathes out wooden songs old and anew. Aeonic Tower looks ahead old and anew. Aeonic Tower retreats old and anew. Aeonic Tower wakes from prior slumber old and anew. Aeonic Tower carries restless spirits along battered coastlines old and anew."

- Aeonic Retreat

Introduction
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Welcome one and all to my first ever cosmology blog for Apocrypha, an epic fantasy franchise set within the mythical world of Aeterna! Before we delve into things too much however, I'd like to give huge thanks to my friend Amaranth for assisting me with the world-building of this franchise and continuing development even during my lengthy hiatus. While full ownership rights are mine alone, this world wouldn't have gotten anywhere close to its current stage of development without his helping and caring hand. I'd also like to thank my friend Haku, who also helped with the verse here and there.

Anyway, you're probably wondering what this cosmology blog will actually have in store for everyone. And... while the verse itself possesses heavy symbolism and philosophical undertones throughout its design, the following information found below will not actually explore these things fully. In other words, I'm detailing the very basics of the cosmology.

That being said, an upcoming blog will provide further details regarding the metaphysics and symbolism throughout the franchise, and there will be supplemental blogs alongside that. So make sure to keep an eye out for when more blogs inevitably arrive. At any rate, with everything out of the way, let us step forward into this strange world beyond our own.

Divinity
Before getting into the actual cosmology proper, understanding how divinities in Aeterna function goes quite the long way. Within the context of Aeterna there are the archetypal divinities who reside beyond the constraints of physical existence, which includes things such as causality and space-time, and then there are the lesser divinities who are still bound to the mechanisms that the archetypal divinities transcend. Examples of lesser divinities would be certain mortals who achieve limited godhood or pantheons of deities shaped into existence through worship and belief, whereas archetypal divinities can best be seen as metaphysical and immutable concepts that shape and influence creation throughout every cycle.

As such, any names, attributes, or legends given to these archetypal divinities would simply be seen as limitations of perspective. For lesser divinities however, such attributes tend to stick around for very long periods of time, sometimes even being crucial to their state of existence. An example of this would be pantheons reliant on worship and tradition, which basically means that them existing is entirely subjected to how long people worship or generally remember them.