Generally not a group that Mage players use as characters, these are the non-magical majority whose magical selves have not Awakened. The Tellurian was since divided in half by the Gauntlet, with the spirit world on one side, and the physical world on the other. The Tellurian was a whole and complete singular universe. These Umbral Realms, together with the Physical World create the Tellurian, which comprises all of reality.Ĭountless aeons ago, the Umbra and the material world were one. There are no cabals on the planets of Sun-system. Though spatially within the Near Umbra, the Shard Realms of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars remain beyond the Horizon. These create the almost-survivable Shade Realms along the Horizon, which are diluted forms of the Shard Realms that can be survived with considerable skill and luck.
Difficult to survive in and home to beings entirely alien to human conception, this region is largely devoid of noteworthy locales.Įach planet seems tied to a particular aspect of reality, and manifests this association through a Shard Realm, an incomprehensible realm composed of a single aspect of reality (for example, The Shard Realm of Time, associated with the planet Saturn, is composed entirely of time). Strictly speaking, the Deep Umbra is the in-between that spans the space between planets. The Near Universe is akin to deep space, and is home to locations reminiscent of science fiction.
The Low Umbra (Dark Umbra, Yin World, Shadowlands) is a place of decay and darkness. The Middle Umbra (Living Umbra, Yang World, Spirit world, perhaps " the Dreaming") is a place of spirits and spiritual importance, and is the spirit world used by werewolves. The High Umbra (Astral Plane, Heavens) is a place of the mind where concepts take physical form. The Near Umbra is the next closest to earth, and it is expanded into four subtypes: the High, Middle and Low Umbral realms, and the Near Universe. The Penumbra mirrors the Earthly reality but it is not possible to see reality in the Penumbra. The Penumbra overlaps the physical world, and is reached upon passing through the Gauntlet. Mage is built upon the basic concept of Werewolf's cosmology. Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition Cosmology What Ascension is, and how it is achieved is purposely left undefined. The central theme of Mage is the search for Ascension, not only for the individual but for all of mankind. The specifics of their own belief, called a Paradigm, guides them into joining either one of the nine mystical Traditions (an ancient fellowship of mages of varying points of view), one of the five conventions of the Technocracy (an organization founded at the beginning of the age of reason to bring science and truth to humanity), or to strike out on their own as Disparates (unaffiliated mages), Marauders (mages whose paradigm has overwhelmed their sense of reality), or Nephandi (mages seeking to destroy or corrupt the world). Mages are those people who recognize that reality is not static, and realize that through the application of their will, usually channeled through rituals or other similar "mystical" or "scientific" practices, reality can be changed.
Reality is not fixed, but rather a set of agreed upon assumptions enforced by the collective will of humanity, the Sleepers.
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