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Do you remember that Star Trek episode about a parallel universe?
I have thought about the idea of a uchrony where Aztlanti empire is a conferation who defends the freedom, the respect for the naive ecosystems and the rights of the sentient creatures.
I suggest a soft way to allow "uchronies" if anybody doesn't want a multiverse in the franchise:
Akashic demiplane: The History is "recorded" as a timeline but some groups with a "time-travel" technology can visit, explore and even alter or create a new timeline. This wouldn't create time-travel paradoxes really because it isn't a true travel to the past but to a copy (sometimes a false or wrong copy) of the past. Sometimes whe a akashic demiplane is altered too much by the time-travelers, it isn't erasured really, but "sent" to the dream plane. Then a lot of different things can happen, for example lord fey and lovecratians aberrations from the kingdom of the nightmare trying to invade these "reality bubbles".
Or the akashic demiplane is like a "backup" of the space-time to avoid time-travel paradoxes. This would avoid the true past was altered, but maybe some little details, but also allowing to create a uchrony demiplane, for example where an alien civilitation survived an apocalyptic crisis, or this hasn't started yet.
While not exactly the same thing, one of the Dragonlance novels has the characters go into a high level mage's memories as the main part of the story. It is treated as more of a demiplane than normal memories, as they convince the mage to change what he did in the past, which had no bearing on the real world. I do not remember the name right now.
I remember that book, but not the name. The main character was Tanis, the half-elf. In the end Tanis created statues of the lovers to these be remembered for generations.
In Starfinder maybe demiplanes were virtual universes, videogames, and like this, but the collective memory recorded them and now they would be like reality bubles within the akashic plane or the dreamland.
Other option would be like the "ideaverse", a demiplane with all fiction by the civilitations, legends and literature.
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The Ideaverse is a "pocket multiverse", an "hidden metaverse" in which all of the literary characters that inspired the Marvel Comics heroes and villains live together. The characters live in a time-loop in which the tales are repeated over and over.
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I mean witchwarpers as a class depend on the multiverse being a thing to do what they do, so it is plausible.
The History does sound like an awesome concept to throw in there too, though!
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I just hope that evil version of pact worlds comes with goatees
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Archpaladin Zousha wrote: I mean witchwarpers as a class depend on the multiverse being a thing to do what they do, so it is plausible.
The History does sound like an awesome concept to throw in there too, though!
My read on witchwarper metaphysics, mind, is that. . . the multiverse they access isn't "the entirety of the planar system, stacked together in countless copies". Rather, each plane *composing* the planar system is a separate stack of multiversal variants, all of which are still "inside" the same planar sphere. So, they can access countless variations on the Prime Material, but all are still located in the Prime Material. Ditto for other planes, though for most other planes the boundary between "this universe" and "adjacent universe" is *much* fluffier.
Why do I read it this way? Because the Paizoverse cosmology is pretty clear that "outside" the planar sphere is the Outer Dark Where Eldritch Horrors Live. If the stacking were "outside" rather than "inside", this would imply that every witchwarper in existence casually breaches and crosses said threshold whenever they use their powers. This would make them either ludicrously powerful or ludicrously dangerous or both, in a way that is totally not read into their class. Much better to assume that the contents of the Planar Sphere just happen to include infinite variations of each component plane stacked sideways. After all, its not like every plane isn't *already* infinite, sometimes composed of multiple separate infinities.
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