Mirrorverse
The Mirrorverse, Mirror World or Mirror Dimension is the world on the other side of every looking glass.<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Mirrorverse</default></title>
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Description
The mirrorverse is an endless, dark void, with light and matter only where there are mirrors or other reflective surfaces in the real world.
Copies of all inanimate objects are present; but people, moving vehicles etc are not.<ref name=":0">I wasn’t entirely sure what dictated how things operated in my mirror
world as opposed to the real world – I didn’t see cars traveling up and down the streets, for example. Sometimes things remained the same and
sometimes they changed. A part of it seemed to have something to do with my own actions, and the force and effort I put into them. Stuff I put down tended to persist in the mirrorverse, but only if I did it while being mindful of the task, doing it purposefully. - excerpt from Mala Fide 10.5</ref> Things altered or moved in the mirror world will naturally "reset" to match the real world, unless the Other changing them actively wills it.<ref name=":0" /><ref>I couldn’t influence the outside world, but I could influence this one. I looked over the cards. They were nice, a little old fashioned, the
white of the card paper stained with age, but beyond that, they were
ordinary playing cards. My presence had made it so they weren’t reflected, establishing my presence in this mirror world. But a lack of activity, a shift of focus, a bit of release, like the smallest kind of surrender, and I’d let them through. The reflection of the cards. - excerpt from Malfeasance 11.2 </ref>
The void sometimes contains hints of Others or magic happening nearby.<ref>“Fare well,” Faysal Anwar told me. “I must remove the wounded to where he may be helped. Excuse me.” “You fare well too,” I said. I leaped across darkness. A flash of light ripped across the darkness behind me. Surprised, I very nearly missed my step, stepping into the nothingness, rather than leaping across it. Not such a problem -I still moved across instantaneously-, but when the footing differed in angle or I stepped onto snow, it could make me stumble. - excerpt from Mala Fide 10.3 </ref> Some beings can manifest terrain to stand on in the void,<ref name=":1">A trio of fat men were reflected in the lights generated by car windows and windshields, half a street up. A little too similar, a little too childish in their dress. Golfer’s clothes, almost, with matching hats with flaps over red hair, red noses, matching sweaters under plaid coats, and pants belted a touch too high at the waist. They noticed me as I ran, heads turning. The two in the back glanced in different directions, almost as if they’d communicated with a thought. I slowed, checking for a way around. The one in front, without a word from the others, deemed it okay to reach out, smashing a car’s windshield, a side mirror, and then kicking a
display window.
The light available to me disappeared. Had I kept going at the same speed, I might have been shunted off in one direction or another.
Waiting for me? Prepared for me, even?
I prepared to jump across the darkness, but something made me hesitate. In the midst of the darkness, a kind of light blossomed, like a glowing smoke. Three figures emerged into the nothingness between patches of mirror-space. They were utterly bald, naked, looked more like metal statues than people, and had the same proportions as the three men I’d seen. The same faces, minus the hair peeking around the edges of the cap. Each had a pecker that looked like it belonged on a baby, not a grown man. They half-floated, half-waddled, and only glimmers of the landscape they walked on were visible in this space. Red stone that fit together without the use of mortar, highlighted by gold, and I thought I saw a glimpse of a carving of a dragon or a dog. This trio of Others could apparently understand and navigate this mirror space more easily than I did. [...] “You are in your rights. To explain, these Iaiah were invited,
and we have a certain responsibility to look after them as a result.
They are territorial as creatures created to be guardians so often are, but when placed as guardians, they are more commonly tasked with warding
off more abstract things. It seems they react on instinct even when visiting strange places.”
- excerpt from Mala Fide 10.3 </ref><ref name=":2">He leaped up and over, jumping into this mirrorverse. Much as the fat men had, the dog walked on the nothingness. Each footstep created ripples that moved too fast, rings of light that seemed to stretch on to
infinity in every direction. His fur seemed too white, here,
considering the fact that light didn’t reach him while he stood in the darkness. - excerpt from Mala Fide 10.3 </ref> but most are simply teleported to the nearest patch of light if they fall into it, draining them of some power in the process.<ref name=":3">The little compact broke, and my footing disappeared with it. At the same time, light flared, another reflection opening up. I was shunted, dumped onto another patch of light. [...] They’d moved the full-length mirror, placing it in the circle he’d started to make for Evan. He’d then broken the one mirror that held me while they removed the cloth, moving me to the nearest available surface, the one inside the circle. Maybe he’d closed it after. Maybe he hadn’t needed to. I’d been bound the same way Conquest had. - excerpt from Mala Fide 10.7 </ref>
A binding that surrounds a mirror in the real world is effective in the mirror world as well. <ref name=":3" />
Residents
Beings that primarily live in mirrors:
Beings that can enter or reach into mirrors:
- Padraic
- Conquest
- Faysal Anwar<ref name=":2" />
- Abstract Demons such as Ur, Barbatorem
- Iaiah<ref name=":1" />
References
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