The Midnight

"'It was when I gazed into the Night that I saw it. What I had always feared, what I never wished to know.'"Paltry minds think paltry things. They know so little of their own existence or even what lay beyond their rim of understanding. Through their studies and their sciences they expand their horizon of knowledge ever further, but it will not be long before they discover something better left undiscovered.

Fear Itself
The Midnight is not some distant planet, some far-off space, or planar dimension. It’s not even a realm, but perhaps for your sake you best think of it as such. The Midnight is a manifestation of the greatest and oldest fear embedded in life, the one thing that has saved lives more than many know: The fear of the unknown. The Midnight is the conceptual presence of that fear, of the uncertainty that lay before you as you jump head-first into darkness. It is the thing whispering in your ear before you descend into blackened crypts, ancient ruins, and dark caves. It is both your demon and your angel; Forever urging you to the next daring task, but withholding you from taking the leap. "“Why jump? What if they don’t catch you? What if you plummet to your untimely end?”"

Place of Limbo
The Midnight is a shard of metaphysical creation. It both exists and doesn’t. The Midnight is a concept, an idea living in your head, but it is very much a place you may transport your consciousness to. The Midnight, as a realm, is a place of fleeting existence. Matter is impermanent, as is energy. It conforms to the will of the creatures inhabiting it, and as such, very disciplined and powerful minds can create entire manifestations of tangible reality within the realm for years to be. All things within The Midnight are warped by its presence, twisted into alien shapes that defy common geometry and biology.

Sultans of Midnight
As the realm is undulant, so is it a parasite. Beings who preside there have their fears slowly manifested, and as their fears overtake them, The Midnight contorts to reflect those fears. The situation snowballs until they are so deeply trapped within their own mind that they might never escape, leaving their physical body in a permanent coma. Those who become trapped are warped by The Midnight into aberrations of their former selves.