Re: Formation of Crystal Shells

>         Any chance you could generalize the article a bit?  I'd like to
>post it on BtM.  (BtM, for those who don't know, is www.darkwood.org/sj/.)
>
>         Hope that helps. :)
>


Here is a generalized version.


Star System Formation
by Coyote


Few know how crystal spheres are created, and many say that they always have
existed.  Others speculate that they are created when elemental and
spiritual fields begin to form and generate their respective forms of
energy.  I am a proponent of the later theory.

It is known that the planets and other celestial bodies within star systems
are generated by elemental vortices.  Examples of infant star systems where
these vortices are just beginning to open up and pour forth their matter or
energy have been found and explored.

In one explored example of an infant system, the system's vortices were
still tiny, and did not spew enough matter for it to remain and gather into
one spot.  Some of the system's vortices spewed their material too fast or
too slowly.  Others were larger and were surrounded by protoplanets, though
no true planet will exist in that system for some time to come.

Let us explore how a mature crystal shell is formed.

The star in the center of most spheres is often the first celestial body to
form, though not always.  These suns often form around massive vortices to
the positive energy plane.  Stars also frequently form around vortices to
the plane of fire or radiance.

Several billion years after the sun or suns of a system form the vortices
that form the proto-planets open up.  When the celestial bodies of a crystal
sphere first form every planet in the shell is made up of a single raw
elementary material, be it fire, water, earth, air, or a quasi- or
semi-element such as radiance or magma.  Later these pure elements start to
mix with other elements and evolve into the various planets and planetoids.

A good example of how this mixing happens is as follows.  Little pieces of
earth break off from a solid sphere of earth which forms around an earth
vortex.  This is usually because the earth vortex is spewing out earth
matter so fast that the earth does not all settle into a ball, and some
pieces escape the gravity of the proto-planet, or because the earth pushes
out of the vortex at the center of the solid sphere, compacting the outer
layers until the sphere explodes into many chunks and leaves a raw vortex.
After the later cases, the proto-planet starts to form anew.

These free floating chunks of earth become asteroids and the cores of
comets.  Some crash into water worlds, and create islands, or are caught in
the atmosphere of air worlds and become floating islands.

Globes of air also break off from air proto-worlds and are caught by an
earth world, creating its first, embryonic atmosphere.  Water globs break
away in the same manner, or magma globes.

As the elements mix and land on other proto-worlds, spontaneous vortexes to
other elemental planes begin to open up in these once pure pockets of
elemental substance around the new material.  Earth worlds start to see
volcanoes form on them as vortexes to the plane of fire are opened, and
atmospheres start to form as vortexes to the plane of air open up.  Oceans
form, and on other worlds, like worlds made of only water or air, large
islands of earth start to form.

As these elemental vortices open and mix their materials, spiritual vortices
also open up, as well as positive and negative energy portals.  From the
invisible spiritual vortices and the positive and negative vortices the
energies of life and death flow, and the energies of good, evil, law, and
chaos.  Instead of creating spherical globes of matter, these vortices more
often create flows similar to rivers and currents.

As these forces spread throughout a forming star system they mix and meld
with each other, similar to the way the elemental materials mix, generating
both life and abominations such as undead.  They also create order or chaos
among the opening and closing of new vortices, in time resulting in stable
vortices that follow stable paths within the stellar sphere.  This allows
planets to form and remain stable, instead of disintegrating as their
vortices close or growing to massively abnormal sizes and eating up all the
other planets.

This is a perpetually ongoing process.  Many speculate that the larger
worlds still have vortices open in their centers that spew new matter at a
steady rate, though other star systems exist where the planets are still
growing and shrinking at chaotic rates, and where they fling around the
crystal sphere in random, chaotic patterns.  It is obvious that the number
of invisible chaos vortices far outnumber the number of law vortices in
these systems, and the energies of chaos do not allow stable star systems
with stable worlds in stable orbits to form.

It is believed that the aether plane, also called the pholgiston, can only
exist at a certain distance from these conglomerations of elemental and
spiritual power, and the fields generated around them.  The aether exists
where these energies do not exist.  This is manifested physically as a
crystaline barrier, but it is really merely the absence of elemental and
spiritual power.

Spells that allow travel through the pholgiston must have a component to
them that allows elemental and spiritual energy to break away from the
fields that they were generated within.  To the observer this is not
noticable, in much the same way this component is not noticable when one
used magic ot enter the elemental or outer planes.  When one goes to the
planes of evil, for example, one must have magic that protects the good in
one's self, because there are no good enegies in these planes and no sources
for them to be generated from.  the magic one uses must isolate the good
energy field and enable it to be generated internally.

All these details are not important unless one is attempting to create new
spells, however.  What is important is that at a certain point around each
star system one runs into a barrier, that one must have specially designed
magic to penetrate.

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