The Veils
I want to give a little overview of the world all my WIPS take place.
A place where monsters walk among men, where magic meets the mundane, and mystery shrouds everything in the veils of night.
“The Veil keeps your eyes closed to the truth. But be careful for once they are open they can never be closed.” - Dreizehn
The Veils
The Veils, also known as “The Abyssal Gates” or “The Shade of the Sleeping” (also sometimes simply known as “The Walls”).
To further explain: you can think of reality as a whole as concentric circles, with veils being the line between the expanding circles.
The Veil is thought to be The Abyss seeping in between the gaps of the worlds, consequently creating other levels and hiding them from the slumbering humans. Those who have opened their eyes to the truth can see past the veil… Or at least the first one. The majority of Fiends also live past the first level of the veil but below the second.
The first veil is the thinnest, it separates the physical from the metaphysical, and it works on the vast majority of humans. It obscures the next level of the world from them, but to an extent, also protects them as it obscures them from the inhabitants of the next level.
The second veil separates the metaphysical from the purely spiritual. As an example, a Metaphysical being like a vampire might not necessarily be able to see purely spiritual beings like ghosts or demons.
Past that lies the third veil, which separates the spiritual world from the abstract world. Most fiends are not even aware of the abstract realms' existence. Deep within the Abstract Realm exist beings and concepts that are incomprehensible, Gods or Eldritch Horrors, call them what you like as there are no words of any language that can truly describe them.
And beyond The Abstract lies The Abyss, which acts as the final and unsurpassable veil.