The Noosphere

The Noosphere is a plane of reality without material substance. It is a shadowy realm of energy and thought, where beings exist as clouds of thought-energy resembling glowing balls of light. Communication is possible in the Noosphere through direct mental contact, and over long distances through interconnected strands of thought-energy known collectively as the thought streams. While there are many who exist entirely as beings of consciousness energy in the Noosphere, most residents have physical bodies that exist on some other plane simultaneously, as is the case with the Collective. It is because the location of one's physical self on some other plane such as the Lands has no relation to the location of one's mental self in the Noosphere that we can be separated by great physical distances and still be in close mental contact. When communicating in this way one gets an image of the other persons physical self (or rather, their interpretation of their physical self) by a sort of "broadcast self image" which is impossible to fake or suppress, and it is in this way that we recognize one another on the Noosphere.

The Noosphere is not an empty, featureless place. It has quite a bit of texture and variation, from great black energy-dampening clouds of that are nearly impossible to travel through, to high-energy "storms" that look like endless fields of lightning, and everything in between. There are parts of the Noosphere where the border between planes of existence are worn very thin, where there is a strong connection to some specific part of some other plane. These places are known as "Links" and it is possible from them to observe, influence, and even travel to whatever specific place they are linked to. The Window is really nothing more than a particularly large and well-developed link to the outside world, which is, after all, simply another plane.

Exits: Inwards to the Lands, Inwards to the Dark Place

Residents: The Watchers, The Collective, and possibly others