Aura

    A being's Aura is a metaphysical manifestation of spiritual energy. Personality, morality and intent are reflected in the Aura, and this aspect of spirit can be discerned by those sensitive to it. Though the different qualia of the aura is not directly comparable to color, it is often described this way, as the feeling of an aura is best expressed in visual terms. Listed below are different shades an aura can take, with notes on what they indicate about the individual they surround.

    

    ✶- Bright Blue: Purely Philanthropic 

        a shining, sapphire blue aura. The alignment of saints, martyrs, and intensely charitable deities. Unerringly benevolent, even to one's own detriment or death.

    

    ⬧- Blue: Benevolent, Lawful  

        pol: Socialist

    

    ⬧- Azure: Benevolent, Inconsistent 

        pol: Activist

    

    ⬧- Cyan: Benevolent, Volatile

        pol: Communist

    

    ⬨- Black/None: Fundamentally Ordered

        a black aura, or perhaps the absence of one. This is the alignment of simple automatons, insects, and deities of pure Order.

    

    ⬧- Purple: Indifferent, Lawful

        pol: Authoritarian

    

    ⬧- White: Indifferent, Inconsistent 

        pol: Centrist, a white, poorly defined aura. This is the alignment of the opportunist, the vagrant, most semi-intelligent beasts (apes, cetaceans)

    

    ⬧- Pale-Green: Indifferent, Volatile

        pol: Anarchist

    

    ✶- Bright Red: Singularly Misanthropic

        an overwhelming, glowing scarlet aura. Utterly possessed of a hatred for mankind. Undeviatingly chooses to cause harm, even to its own detriment. Almost exclusively found among divinities, and otherworldly entities.

    

    ⬧- Red: Malevolent, Lawful 

        pol: Fascist, a hot red aura.† The alignment of some devils, most politicians, and psychopaths. Selfish, but principled.

    

    ⬧- Orange: Malevolent, Inconsistent  

        pol: Conservative

   

     ⬧- Yellow: Malevolent, Volatile  

        pol: Libertarian

   

     ✶- Bright Green: Fundamentally Chaotic

        an intense, iridescent green aura. Mostly incompatible with life, this is the aura of elementally chaotic entities. Occasionally associated with deities, and certain types of magical energies.

† Aura in shades of red are described as appearing cébre by Saguzahar sensitive to aura. This seems to indicate that the shade of malevolent aura are actually emsabre, the color of blood.

Abyss, The

    The Abyss is the metaphysical underworld of Tel, though thinking of it as being located beneath anything is misleading. Rather, the way the space of Tel folds topologically, there are regions exposed to the sky (which is the window through which divinity observes the world) and regions that are hidden from it. The Abyss is this space, at least at any given moment. The surface of Tel processes and subducts over long periods of time, with some of the surface eventually flowing down into the spacial crevasses that form naturally, beyond the sky. These subducted zones are dark, with no sun, or even the stars at night to illuminate the surface. Space seems to twist in the dark, making it frighteningly dangerous to navigate. The Abyss is a primordial realm, and is haunted by demons, creatures formed out of pure rapacious chaos.

    There are certain regions of Tel that may only be accessed by carefully traversing a region of Abyss- specifically of note is the Lost City of Yôdh.