The gigantic Tempus Universe is roughly divided into three diverse realms: The Past, Future, & Outer Planes of existence. These planes are connected through a shattering of time and space, the cause of which is yours to discover.
The past and future center around the planet Calidan, with most areas of exploration on the southern half of the middle continent, named Rodinia.
The past plane exists at the height of ancient magic in the medieval era. Songs and dragons soar across a fantasy landscape inhabited by mythical beasts and terrifying creatures. Swords and sorcery abound in the past, woven into a rich society replete with arcane mysteries and ancient gods.
As the powerful mage guild cultivates a clandestine political network across Rodinia, fractures in the High Order have begun to form as temporal spells alter the landscape. Sides are forming as the valiant forces of good collide with growing evil. Within the duchy of Araken, the holy city of Modrian stands at the crossroads, where travelers, adventurers, priests, and rogues mingle and trade as they go their separate ways.
4000 years into the future the middle continent has transformed into a dark, war-torn dystopia. Science reigns supreme as technology has superseded religion, warfare has scarred the land and hearts, and corporate greed is omnipresent. The concept of magic is lost, yet the ways of the mind continue with the emergence of psionic abilities and powerful manipulators of the physical world. Mercenaries, monks and cybernetic citizens find protection and modern existence in the crowded cities, while survivalists seek new environments to escape the blasted planet surface. Owned by the NEO corporate conglomerate, the bustling metropolis of Electro Centralis is the future hub of Rodinia, soaring upwards from the forgotten ruins of ancient Modrian.
Home of greater powers both fiendish and divine, the Outer Planes is the colloquial umbrella term for the greater multiverse: the expansive Outer, Inner and Transitive Planes.
Each alternative dimension is a physical manifestation of a particular moral and ethical alignment, as wide and varied as the Planes themselves are infinite. From the deepest levels of Hell to the heights of ethereal Mount Celestia, the Outer Planes are filled with deities, demons, and other-worldly souls who have sloughed their mortal coil. Lofty and ethereal, these outer reaches of cosmology stand in stark contrast to the tangible foundation of the Inner Planes.
Residing within, Inner Planes are the building blocks of the multiverse, the elements and energies from which all of the material universe is made. These dangerous elemental planes unite into a great ring, as fire, air, water and earth connect through para-elemental planes of smoke, ice, ooze and magma.
Representing the spectrum of form and essence, no philosophies bind these planes. Only where the planes connect do particles of each bleed into the other, subject to the unique conditions of each pure ingredient. The formidable natural conditions of the Inner Planes are inimical to mortal life.
Connecting the Prime, Outer, and Inner planes, the transitive Astral plane is the traveling ground for hundreds of species. Vaulted, intangible, and spacially infinite, few creatures inhabit this no-gravity environment, save the mysterious githyanki. Travelers and visitors transverse this vast space to known and unknown regions of the multiverse, carving out their own niche in the universe known as Tempus.
Time Travel
