[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":44},["ShallowReactive",2],{"projects-fictional-universe":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":35,"extension":36,"meta":37,"navigation":38,"path":39,"seo":40,"seoDescription":41,"stem":42,"__hash__":43},"pages\u002Ffictional-universe.md","A fictional universe I’ve been building",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":31},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22],[10,11,12],"p",{},"I’ve been building a fantasy world where supernatural powers have rules and constraints, institutions arise around those rules, and much of the story comes from people trying to operate inside them... or exploit them. The Imperial Prediction Department, pictured above, keeps a separate restricted archive for predictions deemed impossible or too far-fetched. The prediction on display is considered especially unreliable because several of the people shown in it are already dead.",[10,14,15],{},"Then there’s Heliconia, the Lady of Lost Causes: a goddess who can be summoned, but whose curse supernaturally forbids her from meddling directly in human affairs. She is permitted to intervene only when a cause is genuinely lost. After centuries spent looking for loopholes, she now has an Office of Curse Management, where lawyers and clerks resolve disputes with the curse in ways that preferably do not involve the curse punching her teeth out.",[10,17,18],{},"Elsewhere is Aeternaxis, a civilization in the underworld, where ghosts travel through rivers toward the sea to pass on. Aeternaxis prevents them from reaching it. Its people call the ocean the leachate, and its political factions disagree over how aggressively to exploit, contain, or outmaneuver the intelligence within it.",[10,20,21],{},"This world is the setting for a novel I’ve been drafting for years. It is currently over half a million words toward what will eventually be several books, and nowhere near done.",[10,23,24,25,30],{},"Which is why I built ",[26,27,29],"a",{"href":28},"#beta-bot","Beta Bot",": to help keep it all straight.",{"title":32,"searchDepth":33,"depth":33,"links":34},"",2,[],"An unreliable prediction in the restricted archive of the Imperial Prediction Department.","md",{},true,"\u002Ffictional-universe",{"title":5,"description":35},"A fantasy universe built around constrained supernatural powers and the institutions that arise around them.","fictional-universe","5koJJWbBgNIykzGKfx1eRrNMI4etDMiJPgl0UZdh3Cc",1786998374848]