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The Lapis Sphere

Overview

In the unlit vastness of the Lapis Sphere, wildspace is a hush of ancient weight. There is no sun, no day—only a cold gravity well at the sphere’s heart, drawing all matter into slow, solemn orbits. The only illumination comes from great bioluminescent beasts—leviathans of the deep void whose psionic pulses ripple across space, illuminating nothing but the thought of their presence. Crystalline tendrils drift like root systems through the dark, shedding spores that seed the vacuum with fungal life, forming drifting curtains of alien growth.

An immense asteroid field known as the Cinctum Veneris girds the system, a broken belt of shattered moons and stone leviathans. Many asteroids are hollowed and alive with subterranean psionic colonies, the minds within rarely glimpsed by outsiders. Psychic echoes drift like fog between the stones, lingering impressions of ancient thoughts or the whispers of the dreaming earth itself.

At the outermost edge of wildspace, fixed in perfect stillness against the void, hangs the Enigmastone—a massive, alien obelisk wrought from tan-colored starmetal. Its surface pulses with a deep, seismic thrum, felt more in thought than flesh. Though its origin remains unknown, it is believed to be an Ancient Antæran relic, left behind in the final era of their empire. Scholars theorize it is the source of the sphere’s pervasive psionic resonance, broadcasting silent waves of psionic power that influence every waking mind in the system. Others still believe it to be a sort of thrumming stone, replicating and broadcasting the psionic power innate to the sphere itself.

Planetology & Astrology

  • Type of Sphere: Standard
  • Primary Body:
    • Name: Umbravore
    • Type: Gravity Core
    • Spelljamming Aware: No

Inner Track

  • Planet Name: Ardentem

    • Distance: 91 million miles
    • Size: C
    • Type: volcanic-fungal
    • Shape: cracked spheroid
    • Other Notes: Ardentem is a blistered world of petrified lava flows and creeping mycelial forests. Columns of luminous spores erupt from its pressure vents like ghostly geysers, giving the planet a halo of drifting bioluminescence. Beneath the crust, blind fungal sages maintain labyrinthine shrines carved in cooled magma. The world thrums with low-frequency psionic noise, often causing confusion in passing minds. Its lone moon, Umbrosa, is coated in chitinous bark and hosts dense rings of fungal monoliths, used as waystations for deep void pilgrims.

  • Planet Name: Cineris

    • Distance: 163 million miles
    • Size: D
    • Type: scorched stone
    • Shape: hollow-shell
    • Other Notes: Cineris is a blistered ruin with a surface blackened by solar scars, fractured by gaping sinkholes that descend into surprisingly temperate underlayers. These subterranean zones are rich in breathable atmosphere and host migratory colonies of psionic burrowers. Surface winds whisper along shattered plains, carrying echoes of long-dead civilizations etched into obsidian mesas. Orbiting Cineris are three shattered clusters, the Cantus Fissilis, whose stone fragments hum in harmonic resonance when near living minds. Navigators report that listening to the Choir too long can induce vivid hallucinations.

Goldilocks Zone

  • Planet Name: Mycundis

    • Distance: 233 million miles
    • Size: F
    • Type: fungal forest
    • Shape: hollow
    • Other Notes: Mycundis is a mycelial sphere, whose outer surface is riddled with fungal towers that exhale sparkling spores into the void. Inside its hollow crust, entire subterranean ecosystems bloom in phosphorescent blues and purples, cultivated by semi-symbiotic, psionically gifted inhabitants. These communities build from living fungus, shaping their dwellings through focused thought and ritual song. The planet’s biosphere is semi-conscious, reacting to the mental states of those who dwell there. It is orbited by Viritas and Quassor, twin moons that resonate in precise psychic rhythm during the sphere’s solstice, amplifying telepathic abilities across the system.

  • Planet Name: Radicula

    • Distance: 281 million miles
    • Size: G
    • Type: stony overgrown
    • Shape: ellipsoid
    • Other Notes: Towering fungal pylons stretch from pole to pole on Radicula, forming a living lattice that pulses with spores and bioluminescence. Beneath the stone skin of the world lies the Archivum Mentis—a massive subterranean archive that stores psionic memories etched directly into mineral lattices. Sentient caretakers grown from translucent molds drift silently through its halls, maintaining the recorded minds of ages past. Many who journey here lose their sense of self amid the ambient memories that pervade the vaults. The planet’s gravity fluctuates subtly in the presence of strong mental projections, an effect still unexplained.

Outer Track

  • Planet Name: Tellurex

    • Distance: 351 million miles
    • Size: H
    • Type: frozen cavernous
    • Shape: spherical
    • Other Notes: Tellurex appears lifeless at first glance, with a surface entombed in frost and silence. But buried deep within is a vast hollow core where glittering crystal formations act as natural psionic relays. Suspended in this inner void is the city of Iximane, a ghostly ruin held aloft by unknown forces, where every surface reflects glimpses of possible futures. Those who enter Iximane often return changed, haunted by visions of paths untaken. The planet’s silence is total, broken only by thought.

  • Planet Name: Fractus

    • Distance: 419 million miles
    • Size: F
    • Type: crystalline-fungal
    • Shape: shardlike
    • Other Notes: Fractus is a jagged orb of translucent minerals and glowing, tendriled fungus, shaped like a shard driven into the void. Its caverns amplify thoughts, distorting mental signals into echoing cascades of memory and imagination. Entire sects of contemplatives live within these mind-mazes, seeking to lose themselves in the hum of their own reflections. During eclipses of Umbravore, the planet partially phases into another realm, allowing travelers to walk between dimensions for brief windows. Many ships that enter during this time do not return.

  • Asteroid Field: Cinctum Veneris

    • Distance: 475 million miles
    • Composition: shattered moons, dormant stone titans, fungal debris
    • Other Notes: The Cinctum Veneris is a wide belt of fragmented moons and shattered titans, held in erratic orbits by ancient gravitational eddies. Many of its asteroids are hollow and support cloistered psionic colonies or fungal enclaves that drift in timeless meditation. Strange, half-sentient spore clouds flit between them, their presence heralded by drifting lights that mimic stars. Explorers report that some stones respond to telepathic thought, shifting their courses or revealing long-buried passages. Rumors persist of lost temples within the belt that still pulse faintly with Antæran echoes.

Recognized Pantheon

Lesser Deities

  • Thalanor, the Gemwarden (LG)
  • Ilyrah, Mycelial Mother (NG)
  • Serelune, Breath of Caverns (CG)

Intermediate Deities

  • Ovrik, the Stone Judge (LN)
  • Xal-Themn, the Mind Root (N)
  • Vekzeth, Mad Echo (CN)

Greater Deities

  • Velgrith, Chain Below (LE)
  • Urox the Hollow, Memory-Eater (NE)
  • Ykraghar, King of Spores (CE)

Demigods

  • Drexxel, the Vermin Voice (NE)
  • Nymira, Lady of Still Minds (N)
  • Skoruun, the Unspoken Mold (CE)
  • Braxael, Lampbearer of Dust (CN)
  • Ithk, the Root Without End (N)
  • Molgur, He Who Forgets (NE)
  • Savaar, the Chittering Prophet (CE)
  • Othuun, Keeper of Deep Names (CN)
  • Ezzith, the Hollow Bud (CN)