User blog comment:Krayfish/Omniverse Nexus Site Specifics/@comment-5870856-20150324191911/@comment-5870856-20150326170857

I'll tell you more about the superhero verse soon, but I just had a brainwave for ET and MC. Let's face it, it's been ages since we ever did anything Eidyn-related on Erudite Tales. Khyorgan is the heart of ET, the main setting, the "Romanum verses" of Erudite. So how about this - instead of making Miraculum a mash-up of Eidynese and Khyorganese content, why don't we make Miraculum a reimagining of Eidyn and switch ET's focus to Khyorgan? Not only would this give us a chance to resurrect Eidyn, it would give us an incentive to do some well-needed repairs for Khyorgan. I know it might fly in the face of the Interplanar Era/Soul War stuff we've been coming up with, but I've been thinking about that, too.

The thing about ET is that while it's always been supposed to be a fantasy project, you could just exchange the word "plane" for "planet", do some reflavouring and call it a soft sci-fi universe without changing any of the core things. I'm not sure what it is, but ET's never felt that fantastical to me. Maybe that's cause it originated as a GC spin-off, and it's still very grounded in it's roots. It's just that the idea of having a larger universe which you can relatively easily interact with doesn't seem very fantasy. Am I making sense? I'm not sure if I'm really communicating my ideas here, but I think you get where I'm coming from - ET doesn't seem like fantasy to me, it seems more like... well, |E.T.. (Bad pun, I know...)

What I'm getting at is, we need to reevaluate what ET is. One way I think we can do that is by seriously downplaying the role of interplanar interaction. In other words, make ET Khyorgan, MC Eidyn and have the ether be less of an outer space analogy and more of a metaphysical thing which can be travelled through but isn't exactly literally there. Ugh, I've got a clear picture of this in my head, but I can't describe it. Just think of the planes more as IH's universes than GC's planets and the ether as a very metaphysical thing, a bit like HM's Fog, but less eldritch. Probably the best I can describe it is as a mix between HM's Fog and D&D's Astral and Ethereal Planes, which causes the planes to act as something analogous to HM's Hallows and/or IH's verses. In other words, interplanar travel still happens, but it's not a huge thing, and it's downplayed enough to justify giving Eidyn and Khyorgan separate sites.

If I've confused you, let me know and I'll try to clarify. If possible...