Most people don’t consider the world of Orizon beyond the material plane, the home of mortals and the world they inhabit, but Orizon has broad planar geography. Beyond the eyes of most mortals are a host of locales, all part of the magical framework of Orizon. From the savage elemental planes to the darkness of the Umbral.
Beyond the planar confines of Orizon and the geography of its cosmos sits a vast multiverse, an infinite number of varied worlds and realities. The breaking was the cause of many calamities, but one of the most lasting effects was the sundering of Orizon’s planar barriers. Portals were opened to distant locales and unsuspecting creatures were dropped into Orizon, trapped there forever. The breaking is considered the origin point of many of Orizon’s now native creatures. The spreading storm bursts of wild magic that travel across Orizon continue to open small gates to other planes, but these are rare and not able to sustain themselves for very long. Typically these portals are open for just an instant, depositing bewildered creatures from outside the plane, or snatching up unsuspecting residents of Orizon and whisking them away.
The various planes of existence are realms of myth and mystery. They’re not simply other worlds, but dimensions formed and governed by spiritual and elemental principles.
The structure of Orizon’s cosmology is an integral part of the world’s magic and the currents of energy known as the flow. There are two major currents, the spiritual and the natural. The spiritual flows between the afterlives of Postsea and the Obscene Depths, cycling the energies of the soul between the heavens and the hells. The natural flows between the faerie and the umbral, cycling between growth and decay. At the connections of these currents are the astral and the ethereal planes.
In the inner planes, the elemental planes and the gossamer planes of the Ethereal and Astral, the energies shift. The gossamer bridges serve as connective points, spreading beyond their defined borders and reaching out across the world and cosmology. The Astral plane is a bridge of the mind and dreams, the Etherial plane is a bridge of souls. The Elemental planes draw in energy and give it further definition, they reinforce those definitions within the material plane.
At the absolute center of these currents is the material plane. The flow mingles here, spreading out and intermixing its currents, making the life and magic that people have come to know possible.
One effect of the breaking was to weaken the channels of the currents of the flow, interfering with the easy movement of the flow. On the material plane this manifests as wild magic storms, on other planes, this is less obvious, but the effect is energies from outside of the plane being added to the currents, or the flow of energies spilling out into the greater multiverse. The former helps to further empower warlocks, the latter has served to prevent a potentially catastrophic overflow of energy, but could also drain Orizon of magic if it became worse.