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Each Realm is basically a condensation of the essence they encapsulate, but the Realm of Reflection is possibly one of the most interesting options.

As soon as you arrive, going through the onyx door in the Ideal Gate, you see.. a barren wasteland. Worse yet, you see a plain of nothingness. Here, in all Realms, the sky is gray, but a few shades lighter than the soil, so it is a horrible duotone of straightened horizon. You may walk, it won't change.

That is, until you interact with the first rock. If you are trying to find something in this barren place, you will feel the full momentum of your walking hitting you back, along with pinkish shockwaves rippling across the rock's outer surface. Rippling like waves in a lake, losing saturation and thickness until the rock is invisible again. Or better yet, non-existent.

You see, that is the difference between being suddenly visible and being suddenly present. If you shoot an arrow, or any projectile across this realm, it will hit NOTHING. For it has no intention of interacting, or touching anything. A being, however, can apply intention here and will receive a REACTION back. That's why you trip on rocks, but not arrows.

Once someone leaves their mortal body, the essence of them goes to the next plane, or better yet, planes.

Being received in the Ideal Gate, they quickly learn they need to complete one essence course to leave to the next part of their journey.

From there, they are free to choose where to roam: The Realm of Presence, Absence, Accretion, Depletion, Infliction, Reaction, Harmony or Duality. Truthfully, they are absolutely unbound to do any of the courses, being allowed to change mid-path and even try to master all eight.

Each Realm is a reflection of the essence, which truly sounds marvelous but due to mass not existing here and the laws of physics being less followed, things go alien very quick.