On the Nature of Stars

…How can the infinity of Aetherius contain the infinity of Oblivion? Well, if Oblivion is infinite every direction we can see, Aetherius is infinite in one more. Outside of comprehension, the aether contains oblivion. Furthermore, when Magnus and his children fled, they did not leave flat holes on the edge of Oblivion’s sphere, as we are told. Rather, the holes they created were of a greater order, exiting Oblivion by moving sideways, at a right angle to all direction. If the “sphere” of the aether extends into another direction, so do the “circular” holes to that realm.

The pertinent point being, if you could observe from far above this world, you wound see Oblivion goes on in all directions, and throughout it find perfectly spherical bodies of light. These (w)holes in Oblivion are the absence of nothingness which is magic. Orbiting many of these (w)holes which we call stars are their dead brethren, thought-gods of Mundus which did not escape into Aetherius, becoming solid masses, the many plane(t)s.

But you thought there were nine plane(t)s, or twelve, or eight (an unpopular number to some), or some other similar number? No, there are scores! But the cosmologist fails to realize the image in his telescope is also a reflection of himself, and so sees his own nine favored divines. In fact, there are many more worlds in the black sky, for there are many ideas of gods and men which gain immortality.