
# The Seven Truths of Oshanal

Your people know your world by many names: the Monstrous World, the Heart of All
Realms, the God-cage, the Broken World, the Twilight World, and so on. It is an
incredible, surreal home: a tall tale made real, lit by uncontrolled magical
radiances seeping in from broken sibling planes, and lush with a terrifying and
majestic menagerie of cosmic hybrids.

Here, on Oshanal, the corpus of eternity was shattered, and the membrane between
the mortal and the metaphysical realms popped like a bubble. Monstrous gods
known as the Megaliths intruded on reality and began the work of devouring it.
Neighbor eternities broke open and spilled into this eternity in a great
conjunction. At long last, the damage was controlled and the wound was partly
sealed, yet the damage had been done: a once-tranquil world had been irrevocably
transformed into something paradoxical, eldritch and elemental.

Still, today, the teeming alien presences of the monstrous gods struggle to be
free from the boundaries of their profane periphery, in order to resume feasting
on the cosmos once again.

There are seven metaphysical and material truths which govern Oshanal, the
Monstrous World:

- **[In the cradle of the cosmos](/handbook/in-the-cradle-of-the-cosmos)**.
  Oshanal sits at the heart of a thick, old galaxy. So thick is its celestial
  landscape with stars, that it exists in a world of perpetual twilight.
- **[The evil empire won](/handbook/the-evil-empire-won)**. Long ago, there was
  an evil empire which had colonized much of the world. After the Summoning,
  they did well, and now they rule the sky people: the last known bastion of
  mortal civilization.
- **[The ancient gods awoke](/handbook/the-ancient-gods-awoke)**. In the final
  battle of the last age, the empire called forth the monstrous divine. It
  worked, but the gods were horrific, alien, and each was infinite and vast.
- **[The conjunction of all planes](/handbook/the-conjunction-of-all-planes)**.
  When the gods were summoned, it broke the barrier between planes and
  infinities. Now, spirit and mortal realms bleed into one another, creating
  strange peoples, a menagerie of unbound metaphysical evolution, and strange
  unearthly ecosystems of creatures part spirit and part material.
- **[Broken, but beautiful](/handbook/broken-but-beautiful)**. Oshanal was a
  placid, tranquil world at one point, but now it is a where at least nine
  universes bulge into one another in epicenters of surreal, incomprehensible
  physical and metaphysical geometry. The terrifying, the alien, and the grand
  are now commonplace, making the monstrous world odd, and wonderful.
- **[A world claimed by strange behemoths](/handbook/a-world-claimed-by-strange-behemoths)**.
  The nature of divinity is a fractal one. The very presence of these
  unknowable, alien gods emanates strange otherworldly ecologies in their
  periphery. The closer you get to the seats of power of the sleeping monstrous
  divine, the more terrible the world around them becomes.
- **[A cosmic fantasy frontier](/handbook/a-cosmic-fantasy-frontier)**. After a
  period of relative prosperity, the people of Oshanal are once again beginning
  to explore their world. Instead of caving to cosmic horror, these people have
  met with the otherworldly by becoming more odd, themselves. With strange but
  powerful magical disciplines on their side, mortals increasingly foray into
  the monstrous world with bolder and bolder confidence.


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