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Mages from many realms, and even gods, have devoted their lives to unlocking those secrets. The peoples of Kaldheim believe that when the Cosmos monsters were born, all the secrets of the world-including events that hadn't yet happened-were locked inside their minds. Most of them resemble a recognizable animal, such as a wolf or eagle, but grown to prodigious size and enhanced with mystical abilities and supernatural knowledge. Magical creatures known as Cosmos monsters live and thrive in the space between the realms. It's challenging, but not impossible, for denizens of one realm to cross the Cosmos and enter another realm. The space between realms, a nebulous space filled with shifting lights like an aurora, is known as the Cosmos. It is known as the "Light of Starnheim," and denizens keep symbols that represent it. Throughout all the realms, the Hall of Valkyries can be seen in the sky as a "sundog" effect, similar to what happens to the sun on a cold sky. Snow-Covered Plains | Art by: Sarah Finnigan

There are other realms outside of the ten in Kaldheim, but it is not yet time for their story. Inside the realms, the World Tree manifests as a physical tree and its branches can be seen in the sky. The peoples of the realms see this structure as a vast, living tree-the World Tree-that is the origin of all life, growing in a vast nothingness. The realms of Kaldheim are mini-planes that are all connected to a cosmic structure that births them, and they rotate around it in unpredictable ways. The serpent was the firstborn, and he has been growing since before the beginning of time. And once there were ten strong branches, fruit grew on the branches, and those were the Cosmos monsters. Its leaves were every color imaginable, and as its branches spread out, they became worlds themselves. The world was born from a seed, and that seed grew into the World Tree, and everything else grew from it. In the first part of this guide, we'll be going over the general workings of the plane, as well as the human realm of Bretagard.

It is a massive plane made up of many individual realms, so there is much for any traveler to learn. Kaldheim is inspired by Norse legends and mythology, and the themes of the ancient sagas run throughout the entire setting.