chapter 1 Nexus plane

the begining of the seasons

Zai’Donet-1 — Nexus Plane Chronicle
0.1.1 – The Solar Promenade

471 meters (0.47 km)

At the heart of the Nexus Capital, the Solar Promenade never slept. Its colossal 471-meter disc of light and shadow turned in slow, perfect grace — the living Yin–Yang of the Lattice Temple.

The temple district sat at the city’s center, surrounded by tranquil gardens and crowned with a sea-star marble dome. Beneath it lay the Nexus Pool Chamber, where the mountain’s lattice veins converged into the heart of the world.

The base walls stood fifteen feet high, crafted from smooth stone blocks; the mid-segment was layered from crushed boulders, ten feet thick, and the upper ring was sealed by cut slabs with narrow window slits. Above, the stone-shingled roof supported the luminous dome — a perfect mirror to the disc below.

At the surface, a 471-meter Yin–Yang symbol turned ceaselessly, dividing day and night.

☯ The Turning of the Solar Promenade
Chronicle Addendum — Nexus Plane Temporal Cycle
1. Dawn Alignment — “The Breath of Illumination”

The first golden breath marks the beginning.
The S-Line — the serpent of balance — passes through the Lattice Temple, casting a ribbon of light that slides across the marble floors like a living current.
One half of the sigil flares with amber and rose; the other dims to violet and blue.

The Light Hemisphere stirs first. Solar lilies open to drink the brilliance from the dome’s upper vault. Choirs of luminous beings — the Aurin — sing the First Harmony, their voices resonating through crystalline arches.

Below, the Nexus Pool hums, rippling as lattice energy rises to fuel the city’s day-cycle conduits. The air smells faintly of ozone and warm stone, accompanied by the soft murmur of flowing crystal water.

2. Zenith Phase — “The Reign of Radiance”

By mid-turn, the Solar Eye dominates. The sigil’s white curve sweeps across the Promenade’s upper plane. Light saturates every surface.

Mirrors and prisms embedded in towers redirect and amplify the brilliance into sanctified heat. Even shadows glow faintly, etched in gold.

Temples conduct energy rituals to channel surplus radiance back into the lattice, preventing imbalance.
At this time, Auralis, the Sister City of Light, opens its portals — messages crossing the six elemental gates in luminous waves.

The Promenade hums like a living clock, its sound subsonic but felt beneath one’s feet — a reminder that the city’s heart keeps perfect celestial time.

3. Dusk Alignment — “The Descent into Reflection”

As the sigil continues its turn, the S-Line passes the temple once again, but in reverse.
Light yields to shadow; brilliance softens into indigo calm. The marble breathes in color, exhaling serenity.

The Shadow Hemisphere awakens.
Lanterns ignite in spirals, tracing constellations through the streets. The domes gleam with faint phosphorescence as the citizens of Umbros emerge — priests of night, dream merchants, and astral navigators returning to their craft.

Harps give way to drums; chimes to deep resonant tones.
Across the Nexus Pool, the reflection inverts — a perfect mirror of the heavens above.

4. Nadir Phase — “The Quiet Dominion”

Now the dark half reigns.
The sigil’s black curve centers upon the capital, yet within it glows the small white tear — the eternal promise of return.

Beneath the surface, the lattice currents shift frequency, glowing faintly as they maintain resonance through the night.
Dream-walkers and scholars gather beneath the sea-star dome to observe the Cycle of Dual Harmony, marking the synchronization between the Promenade’s rotation and the planetary lattice.

Above, auroras breathe like veils of living color — the union of day and night eternal.

5. The Eternal Turn

The Solar Promenade completes its revolution once every full Nexus day.
To the citizens of Atlantis Prime, it is more than a clock — it is the city’s soul made visible.

Each rotation renews the covenant between the six Sister Cities and the Nexus Heart.
Every shadow holds the promise of light.
Every light whispers the truth of shadow.

At the center of all — the S-Line continues its turn: forever dividing, forever uniting.

0.1.2 – Ethion Ring and Mount Ethion

Ethion Ring Diameter: 415.5 meters

After passing the security gates, the temperature balanced between spring by day and autumn by night.
The Ethion Ring contained four forests and four housing quadrants — equal parts wilderness and civilization.

The forests provided resources for construction, food, and spiritual grounding.
Each housing zone held ten homes, four bathhouses, and central communal kitchens and rest sanctums.
Unused space became training fields for the Celestial Guard, surrounded by small garden plots aligned to the dual seasons of spring and fall.

Mount Ethion

Majestic and northern, Mount Ethion rose from the ring’s inner boundary. A vast forest cloaked its base, while four grand platforms emerged midway up, facing each of the cardinal directions.

Between the forest and the platforms lay the elite training grounds, where the Celestial Guard perfected resonance combat — harmonizing movement with lattice surges.

Inside the mountain pulsed the Ethereal Chamber, lined with veins of living lattice energy.
At its core rested the Central Command Cube, drawing power from the tower’s deep foundation.

Each of the four mid-mount platforms connected to the Seat of the Gods — sanctums representing the elemental thrones. Above them, at the upper half of the mountain, lay the Zai’Doneti Loop, where the cycle of day and month was charted and maintained.

As the elements aligned, new seats manifested in the sacred circle: four cardinal thrones and one Duality Seat — half Light (left), half Shadow (right).
At the center, an ever-turning console displayed transmissions from the elemental plane laboratories, providing updates across the entire Nexus system.

1. The Forest Quadrants — “Living Reservoirs”

Each of the four forests resonated with an elemental current:

North Grove (Air): Trees embedded with wind-crystals that sang in harmony with the lattice.

East Grove (Fire): Amber-leafed flora that emitted gentle warmth.

South Grove (Earth): Lush with root crystals and fertile moss, sources of food and medicine.

West Grove (Water): Luminescent streams carrying life-energy to the lower city.

Together they formed the Quadrant Harmony, a living circulatory system of the plane.

2. The Housing Zones — “Communal Resonance Fields”

Each housing sector stood at harmonic equidistance from the central lattice node beneath Mount Ethion, ensuring even distribution of comfort and stability.
Temperature, light, and acoustics were all tuned to the Promenade’s current phase.

Between homes lay Resonant Courtyards, illuminated by ethereal lamps whose glow shifted with the city’s time cycle.
Bath Houses and Rest Sanctums served as purification chambers, cleansing residual lattice static.
Even drawing water became a sacred act of alignment — each citizen a living extension of the lattice’s ordered pulse.

3. The Training Fields — “Guardians of the Pulse”

At twilight — the moment when spring and autumn energies overlap — the Celestial Guard trained in perfect rhythm with the lattice’s heartbeat.
Their bodies were attuned to dimensional frequency, allowing them to detect and stabilize fluctuations before imbalance could spread.
They were not simply warriors; they were living sensors — defenders of resonance itself.

4. The Seasonal Breath

Every twelve rotations of the Solar Promenade, the Ethion Ring exhaled its Seasonal Breath — a wave of harmonizing energy that rejuvenated crops, refreshed lattice conduits, and recalibrated the elemental balances across the Nexus Plane.
This pulse could be felt as far as the Sister Cities, marking the shift of cosmic seasons in perfect synchrony with Mount Ethion’s heartbeat.

Zai’Donet1 Nexus Plane 0.1.2 — Aqualis Ring I (331 m)

The Aqualis Ring flowed like a living ocean encircling the heart of the Nexus Plane, its surface rippling with bioluminescent veins that mirrored the tides of two worlds — day and night. The waters shimmered in hues of clear sea blue beneath daylight’s embrace and deepened to dark azure as night’s shadow rose, marking the rhythm of high and low tide across its four great districts.

Coral Reef District — The Southern Schools of Flow
From south to east stretched the Coral Reef District, where towers of living coral served as classrooms and sanctuaries for the Aquan scholars. The reef itself was grown and shaped by lattice resonance, every spire humming with harmonic tones that guided young students in the art of Water Weaving and Marine Channeling.

Sea Vent Forest — The Artisan Quarter
Between east and north, geothermal vents released plumes of shimmering mist that nurtured crystal-kelp and glowing plankton. This district thrived as the Artisan School Zone — a sanctuary for sculptors, glassworkers, and water-architects who shaped energy flows through steam and current. The sound of vent-song echoed beneath the dome like the heartbeat of the deep.

Whale Bone District — The Crafting Grounds
North to west lay the skeletal remains of ancient leviathans, transformed into the foundations of the Craft School District. Enormous rib arches supported walkways and structures, their marrow hollowed to form studios where craftspeople carved, shaped, and remembered the wisdom of the old seas. The bones resonated faintly, carrying echoes of primeval hymns.

Sea Bed Market — The Winter Tide Bazaar
From west to south spread the Sea Bed Market, where the tides revealed the Winter Bazaar — a trading ground of rare materials, driftwood relics, and spirit-forged shells. During low tide (daylight), the waters receded to unveil shining paths of coral-glass; at high tide (night), the shadows of the market deepened as glowing spheres floated between stalls, continuing trade beneath the moonlit currents.

Zai’Doneti 0.1.4 – Inferdal Arc Ring

Date: Loop 0 — Month Jan — Day 4
Tier: 1 — Nexus Plane and the Elemental Sister Cities
Location: Ai’Doneti Capital – Inferdal Arc Ring

Summary:
The Inferdal Ring formed the fourth concentric layer of Ai’Doneti’s capital, embodying the harmony of law, trade, and time under the celestial rotation of the S-Line. Its four sectors mirrored the elemental and temporal balance of the city itself.

Structure & Segments:

West Segment: Built from Hirgane stone and paved in obsidian walkways, representing judgment and endurance. This was the quarter of civic law and regulation, where decrees were forged to mirror the order of the cosmos.

North Segment — Market of Sol: The solar market, radiant beneath the white-gold half of the S-Line. Residuum buildings and magicite stalls shimmered with reflected light, their goods tied to energy, purity, and illumination.

East Segment: Twin to the west, housing the law guilds and enforcers. During the day, its walls glowed faintly golden; at night, they cooled to deep violet, mirroring the transition of justice between visibility and reflection.

South Segment — Market of Stan (Sol–Stan): The lunar market, lit by the black-silver half of the disc. Here, wares of shadowcraft, memory stones, and alchemical reagents flowed beneath the moon’s breath.

Temporal Function:
At the heart of the Solar Promenade, the Yin–Yang disc rotated continuously — half of radiant sun-gold and half of deep moon-silver. As it turned, one hemisphere of the city bathed in light while the other rested beneath silvery night. The Inferdal Ring’s markets followed this celestial rhythm:

Day Phase: North (Sol) and West (Law) active.

Night Phase: South (Stan) and East (Guild) active.

Each rotation completed a full 24-hour cycle, dividing the city’s operations along the living S-Line — the invisible meridian where sun met moon.

Purpose:
The Inferdal Arc Ring symbolized Balance through Exchange. By synchronizing governance, trade, and elemental rhythm with the celestial disc’s color cycle, the capital transformed time itself into an act of harmony — each moment mirrored between Sol and Stan, day and night, light and shadow.

Zai’Doneti 0.1.5 – Aural Ring

Diameter: 631 m
Element: Air / Sky
Seasonal Aspect: Spring (rebirth and circulation)
Chronological Tag: 0.1.5 — Completion of Capital Construction

The final ring of the capital city, Zai’Doneti, was the largest, encircling the entire Nexus Heart with a span of 631 meters. It served as the city’s connective halo — a network of warehouses, guest quarters, and status councils where trade, diplomacy, and aerial navigation converged.

The architecture was formed of feather-stone, a light-reactive mineral that shimmered like condensed cloudlight. Walkways of down-stone softened every step, channeling air-currents to ease the movement of travelers and goods.

By day, the ring shone in a clear-sky blue, radiating calm clarity and direction; by night, it deepened into a dark-sky blue, through which luminescent glyphs traced the flow of wind energy. These weather veins carried the returning streams of power from north to south, completing the S-Line’s rotation and closing the city’s elemental circuit.

After five days the city complete and the seasons aligned the walls of titan security started to wake up, Mount Ethion showed the loop year-month-day the rings channeld the lattice power into the nexus plane and the month had 0.1.27 to go before the final elemental refinement of the month.