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Averoth stood while encircled. Some of the apex individuals were ready to strike him at any moment.
"Is this what it's come to?", Averoth sighed in disappointment.
The Almighty One closed the holy codex, "I cannot allow this to fall into the hands of anyone present. Much less you of all people."
This was the Otherworlds. Before the Fracture that took place before Averoth's birth, the World and its realms were apart of one singular essence. The concept of 'realms' did not exist.
Once the Fracture occurred the World was fractured into several parts. Certain powerful entities and their areas shifted into other realms. The land of the Holy and Abyss became the Holy Realm and the Everlasting Abyss. The Demonic Plane was born, and so on.
Yet certain lands did not hold enough Prominence to become a realm. Shards of lands and their histories bundled together. Their existence forgotten but still able to be accessed.
