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The Nine Realms

Published History

#SolPorten

The names survived as mythology. The places survived as isolated components of a civilisation built around stars.

Project SolPorten uses realm for a destination region with its own environment, population and relationship to the network. A realm may be a planet, engineered habitat, stellar installation or preserved state. The old poems flatten these differences into one cosmology. The network does not.

Bifröst inside a stellar corona.i
Bifröst inside a stellar corona. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

The catalogue

Midgard

Midgard, Earth, hidden from the active Solport network.i
Midgard, Earth, hidden from the active Solport network. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

Earth, deliberately removed from active routing. Its permissionless humans can attempt any route. Full Article.

Alfheim

Alfheim beneath its failing artificial sun.i
Alfheim beneath its failing artificial sun. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

An engineered forest beneath a failing artificial daylight source. Full Article.

Svartalfheim

Svartalfheim's subterranean foundries.i
Svartalfheim's subterranean foundries. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

Subterranean industry and autonomous foundries maintained through ritual. Full Article.

Jötunheim

Jötunheim's high-gravity engineering landscape.i
Jötunheim's high-gravity engineering landscape. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

High-gravity planetary engineering operated by long-lived custodians. Full Article.

Hel

Hel, a memory archive orbiting a dead star.i
Hel, a memory archive orbiting a dead star. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

A memory archive orbiting a dead star. Full Article.

Vanaheim

Vanaheim, surviving centre of the Vanir compact.i
Vanaheim, surviving centre of the Vanir compact. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

The surviving Vanir civilisation and defender of fragmentation. Full Article.

Asgard

Asgard, centre of inherited Æsir authority.i
Asgard, centre of inherited Æsir authority. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

The Æsir centre of inherited authority. Full Article.

Bifröst

Bifröst inside a stellar corona.i
Bifröst inside a stellar corona. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

The central router inside a stellar corona. Full Article.

Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil, the complete Solport network.i
Yggdrasil, the complete Solport network. (Credit: OpenAI image generation for the SolPorten corpus)

The complete branching system of stabilised stellar corridors. Full Article.

Beyond nine

The traditional catalogue cannot be mapped cleanly to nine planets. Some names identify cultures, some identify places and others identify infrastructure. The Dead Roads and the Roots are network regions rather than worlds. “Nine Realms” is therefore a useful historical index, not a complete technical model.