The pantheon manifest the world from their own essences, each god stabilizing a different shard to prevent the realm from falling into Nihil's void.

An orbital model where eleven physical continents revolve around the high-magic Atrix Isle, connected by the ethereal Cloud Sea controlled by Pathos.

The Council of Twelve, where Aetheris and Malakor vie for ultimate stewardship over the shard-realms.

Deities are physically present via avatars on their respective continents; mortals regularly trade tribute for direct divine protection or weather-mending.

Souls are ferried across the Cloud Sea by Pathos to the Eternal Tundra of Vespera, where they are inscribed into the stars if they lived well or left to the Ash Wastes of Nihil if they did not.