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The Edge
The Edge of Eternity
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The Edge, also referred to as the "Edge of Eternity" or simply "space" by its inhabitants, is an annular universe that surrounds the known Multiverse, bordering the Blind Eternities like the skin of an orange.[1][2] It is the science-fantasy themed setting for the Edge of Eternities set.[3]

Description

Fan Multiverse Map depicting the Edge

The Edge is a ring-like, toroid cosmic universe that surrounds the known Multiverse, unbeknownst to the Edge's inhabitants.[1] Scattered across the Edge's vast vacuum are raw aether, mana, and radiation as well as various celestial objects. This includes large spherical worlds such as planets and satellites, which tend to orbit even larger concentrations of mana, aether, hydrogen, helium, and other trace gases known as stars. The Edge features various forms of life, including intelligent spacefaring species — most of whom live on terrestrial planets, though some live on gas giants — as well as various interstellar fauna, like space whales.[4] On a local level, intrasystem commerce, exploration, and politics are commonplace. On a grander scale, an intergalactic alliance called Pinnacle manages the universe's affairs, and a conflict known as the Entropy War between two religious factions, the all-consuming Monoists and the expansionist Summists, rages across the Edge. Magic takes the form of utilizing aether and mana as fundamental particles like quarks, harnessing materials such as moxite for technology or magical augmentation, and innate species-specific capabilities, such as the gravity-manipulating Susurians.

The Edge is demarcated inwards — i.e. towards the known Multiverse — by a defined, tangible "Chaos Wall" where matter, space, and time appears to originate for the Edge's denizens, and the Edge is demarcated outwards by unobservable "Quiet Wall" where objects appear to move away, implicating expansion.[1] Faster-than-light (FTL) travel and weftwalking (warping) is often done by temporarily piercing and traversing the Chaos Wall, likely a layer of the Blind Eternities. The Chaos Wall also features chaotic ejecta: expulsions of energy, aether, and particulates.

The Edge's denizens are unaware of the Multiverse within the Chaos Wall, presuming a mere "pocket" universe lies within and only being able to pierce through it during warp travel.[1] However, inhabitants of the Multiverse, including the Eldrazi and Tezzeret, have accessed the Edge, and the Edge is known to echo the Multiverse in strange ways.

Interstellar travel

Spacecrafts are the most common form of travel within the Edge. They vary in size, function, and propulsion sources. Nuclear reactors generally utilize moxite, a rare fuel source.[1] Only eternity ships are capable of faster-than-light (FTL) travel. They contain an eternity drive which allows them to access the "Weft", the Blind Eternities behind the Chaos Wall, like a key to the door, but the drive is not responsible for the propulsion itself. Eternity ships are propelled into the Weft by Pinnacle-constructed and regulated eternity columns, which are located in a constant location regardless of the layer of reality. Thus, FTL travel is colloquially referred to as warp or Weft travel, with Weft being a borrowed term from the Drix, an alien race capable of travelling through the Weft independently.

While traveling through the Weft, reality becomes a fractal tumult, infinite coils of color splitting and spiraling.[5] Sound and light and gravity come slightly untethered, even within the shielded confines of a spacecraft. Passengers can hear and even feel phantom echoes of their own movements before they make them.

Astrography

Orrery of the Sothera system being worshiped by Monoists.[6]
  • Pinnacle Space - The region of the Edge under the jurisdiction of Pinnacle, the predominant governing body of the Edge.
    • Andenstalay — A maze of tram tracks and monorails and skyscrapers whose heights vanished into gray-pink smog. Holds a space elevator.[7]
    • Assaxia system — A neutral system located between the Sothera system and Point Prime.[5]
    • Cail Station — An abandoned station containing an arcade and a docking bay. Named after its owner, Oscillus Cail. Around 4544 AR, the station was evacuated, prioritizing its expensive, specialized mining equipment over the lives of its Human and Eumidian residents.[7]
    • Hundreds of places named Errit[7]
    • Eulalia system — A system located between the Sothera system and Point Prime. It hosts multiple Eternity columns.[5]
    • Pellerife — Hosts a Pinnacle archive.[7]
    • Ssata — A city.[7]
  • Sothera system - A star system containing a dying star which was coerced into becoming a supervoid by Monoists. The primary setting of the Edge of Eternities set. Home to billions of inhabitants.[8] Called the Sothera Shrievalty or Infinite Guideline Centrome by Pinnacle.[9]
    • Sothera - Center of the eponymous Sothera system. Collapsed into a black hole-like object called a Supervoid that still emits photons. The Monoists and Summists vie over its fate, with it being the 1000th converted singularity for the Monoists.
    • Major astronomical bodies
      • Susur Secundi (Black mana) - Closest planet to Sothera. Formerly known as Anuki. A terrestrial planet with labyrinths and monumental rock formations, supposedly from an extinct civilization. Claimed by Monoists.
      • Kavaron (Red mana) - 2nd closest planet to Sothera, tied with Evendo. A terrestrial planet that was shattered by the Kav's industrial strip mining for moxite, splitting it into two halves. Home to the Kavaronic Federal Empire.
      • Evendo (Green mana) - 2nd closest planet to Sothera, tied with Kavaron. A terrestrial planet with an equator of terraformed lush forests and desolate tundra elsewhere. Settled by Evendo-Strain Eumidians.
      • Adagia (White mana) - 3rd closest planet to Sothera. Formerly known as Adawa. A terrestrial planet covered by sand and swept by powerful winds. Colonized by the Sunstar Free Company.
      • Uthros (Blue mana) - Furthest planet to Sothera. A gas giant ringed by dozens of moons and covered by violent storms, housing a harsh ground of methane and ammonia ice weathered by diamond rain, liquid metallic hydrogen and helium rivers, and super-compressed gases. Hub of the Uthros Combine's research complex.
    • Minor astronomical bodies
      • Sothera's former closest planet, destroyed by Sothera's gravitational collapse.[1]
      • Sothera's former second planet, withered to its core by Sothera's gravitational collapse.[1]
      • Aqqat (Red manaGreen mana) - A newborn moon with extreme volcanic activity.[10]
      • Granove (Green manaBlue mana) - A moon teeming with biota. Its biodiversity makes it a must-see for astrobiologists.[11]
      • Joska — A pristine moon with bone-white sand and calm seas.[5] Its oceans glow a brilliant violet from bands of florescent algae, and are dotted with massive gelatinous colony organisms the size of cities. After three hundred Celestial Palatinate colonists were massacred here, the negotiated peace in the Entropy War was broken.
      • Kiln (Red manaWhite mana) - A world known for its forges and volcanic activity.[12]
      • Lammuat (Blue manaBlack mana) - An oceanic cemetery moon holding many secrets under its waves.[13]
      • Starshadow (White manaBlack mana) - An empty world with the remains of a population that was annihilated in a day by an unknown cause.[14]
      • Sigma — A dwarf planet.[9]
        • Sigma's Reach — An unpopulated colony.[9]
    • The Garden of Apeiron - A region of space known as a "ship graveyard", containing unexplained paranormal phenomena.
    • The Wurmwall - A hazardous asteroid belt teeming with interstellar life that separates the inner Sothera system from the outer Sothera system.[1]
    • Infinite Guideline Station - Pinnacle's main transit hub within the Sothera system, containing an eternity column for Weft or FTL travel. It is located in Uthros's libratory point.[8]
  • Point Prime, the supervoid that was once Susur.[1] The first and most holy supervoid of the Monoist faith. The Monoists seek to entangle each subsequent supervoid with Point Prime.[15]
    • The Lip of Susur, the photon collar of Point Prime. Contains the great monastery that functions as the capital of the Monoist faith.[1]
  • Maledikt — Possibly a Monoist stronghold.[15]
  • Moratorio[16]
  • The Hylderhigh — A digital singularity occupied by the Vaar.

Government

Pinnacle is the governing body of a large part of the Edge, referred to as Pinnacle Space.[1] Ships are expected to monitor frequency 142, Pinnacle's distress frequency callsign COMASU.[17]

Firing a fusion engine in a planet's atmosphere is considered wake crime, and can be punished with immediate execution.[18]

Culture

Time in Pinnacle Space is measured in Pinnacle standard years, or Beam Years.[1][9] Beam Year 2989 roughly coincided with 4564 AR. Measures of distance and volume use metric, with longer distances using light-speed measurements. Semiotic Standard outlines standards for spacecraft.[18]

Doublestone is a game played by children that involves doubling numbers.[15] Children are also known to watch dynamation.[19] Curling was played on Haliya's homeworld. Dadeumi music is practiced in laundry rooms.[20]

Cuisine

Food in the Sothera System takes from Ethiopian cuisine, including doro wat, tibs, and injera.[21] Rachicken and rabeef are possibly synthetic proteins. Adobo and garlic are used for seasoning. Sotherans are known to drink cactus tea, and garnet-leaf tea is drank medicinally by Drix.[7] Shride is a psychoactive drug enjoyed by Monoists, although it causes a comedown the following day.[15] Sunstar soldiers are known to enjoy periwinkles. Kav consume hot silt to aid in digestion and smoke vapor pipes.[20][5] Eumidians are known to eat roasted beetles and mushrooms, as well as nutrient cakes as a treat.[22] Hand-squids are controversially eaten by some, as they are practically an intelligent species.

Spacefarers consume packaged food and drink, including cometary water, a black licorice alcoholic drink, and tomato juice.[17][8] While in suits, spacefarers eat cheap nutrient paste.[23]

Religion

Religion in the Edge is dominated by the competing Monoist and Summist faiths, who regularly trade positions as the most widespread religion in Pinnacle Space.[1] Faithal, Besurdist, Reform Pith, and Deform Pith are less common religious affiliations.[21]

Economy

Main article: mallowmass

All species and civilizations that are signatories and members of Pinnacle eschew currency; instead, they operate on mallowmass, an economic system that prioritizes reputation.[1] Goods are tracked by their "gift value."[21] Non-signatories, such as the native Sotheran species, still engage in regular trade. Monasteriat credit is used by Monoists.[5]

Markup rags are simple sheets of writeable memory. Kamas and Unilit are two corporations known to manufacture them.[8]

Languages

  • Doxological Massif, the guttural language of the Monoist faith[15]
  • Eumid, the language of the Eumidians[22]
    • Eumid-var-Evendo, the dialect of Eumid spoken on Evendo[22]
  • Illvoi script[23]
  • Iridiomac, possibly the language of the Summist faith[15]
  • Imperial Kfar or Kavar, the language of the Kav.[18][20]
  • Psimer, the lingua franca of Pinnacle Space.[9] As it is intended for lips and a tongue, it is difficult for some species to speak it.[18]
    • "Avis parè" is a phrase in this or another language.[16]
    • The Psimer phonetic alphabet uses the code words "babel", "echo", and "mace".[20]
    • Wholly, holy (sacred), and holy (full of holes) are homophones, as in English.[15]

Glossary

  • Aeromuck — A doughy mass that can be used to protect a ship's crew from inertia or projectiles.[15][19]
  • Bola — Short for "biolabor amplifier;" huge exoskeletons used to assist in mining.[21]
  • Colloidal interface — High-quality tactile screen made up of bead-like structures, one can plunge their hands into and grip.[9]
  • Crysfield — A crystallized forcefield deployed by ships to protect their crew.[17]
  • Diff — Locate the source of a transmission.[21]
  • Drumship — Slower civilian spacecraft configuration that uses a chain of nuclear bombs for propulsion.[24]
  • Geomarker — A geotagged beacon to track one's position.[23]
  • Hardlight field — Ship-born defense used to protect a crew from inertia by converting them into a uniform crystal via vitrification.[15]
  • Hawking radiation or Beckon-hawk radiation — Phenomenon where black holes emit pairs of entangled particles, causing them to slowly lose mass. Often explained through the allegory of Squadron Hawks, which are never found alone, leading to the phenomenon's name. A reference to real-world Hawking radiation.
  • Hotcell — A container commonly given by Pinnacle. Not as effective as a stasis cask, it can hold radioactive or chemical material safely.[21]
  • Mannerslate — A digital manifest.[21]
  • Meco — Short for "main engine cutoff;" turning off a ship's fusion drive.[9]
  • Membrawn — Clinging sheeting used to wrap planetary structures to shelter them from the elements.[21] Detonation-grade membrawn can stretch to one hundred times its size without tearing, and is used in the walls of quality assurance cysts.
  • Mest — Short for "main engine start;" turning on a ship's fusion drive.[9]
  • On the float — Floating through space on inertia alone, without thrust.[9]
  • Plasmadyne — Slower civilian spacecraft configuration using plasma-based engines.[24]
  • Quickfix — A spray adhesive.[16]
  • Shear starch — A starch suspension with shear thickening properties, forming a non-Newtonian fluid used to protect the contents of a cyst from its surroundings, and vice-versa.[21]
  • Slipsuit — A rudimentary spacesuit.[21]
  • Stasis cask — An advanced container slightly larger than a washing machine that contains a loop in space-time.[21][18] Made by Pinnacle and gifted to member systems, they feature a blue finish and a built-in viy that reports the system's status. They can hold a stasis ratio of one to three hundred ten million, meaning roughly one second passes within the cask every ten years. The stasis field has a mirror finish to prevent ten years' worth of light from building up and baking whatever is inside the cask.

Inhabitants

Sapient

The factions of the Edge are centered around a specific color, with some of its races falling suit.[25]

  • Humans White manaBlue manaBlack manaRed manaGreen mana (Pinnacle), White mana (Summists), Black mana (Monoists) - Hominids best known for their use of culture in heredity.
  • Astelli White mana — Angels or incarnations of mana made from the remains of stars killed by supervoids. Secret founders of Summism worshipped within the faith.
  • Illvoi Blue mana — Humanoid jellyfish.
  • Sphinxes Blue mana
  • Susurians Black mana — Massive vampiric beings who lens light around themselves and are born with an inherent command over the gravitational threads of the Edge.[1] Originally from the Susur system, they are the founding species of Monoism.
  • Kav Red mana — Intelligent, bipedal Kavu native to Kavaron.
  • Eumidians Green mana — Humanoid insects. By far the most common sentient species in the Edge, they are considered by many to be the default life form.[9]
  • Drix White manaBlue manaBlack manaRed manaGreen mana — An ancient species known for its ability to weftwalk.
  • Androids Colorless mana
  • Viashino White manaBlue mana — Possess four arms. Don't appear to be native to Sothera, but are associated with Pinnacle and found aboard Infinite Guideline Station.

Fauna

Flora

Non-native

Factions

  • Pinnacle - An intergalactic alliance and the prevailing governance within the Edge, at least in Pinnacle Space.
  • The Celestial Palatinate (White mana) - A monarchical state under the faith Summism, which seeks constant expansion and development of the universe, worshipping the divine Regent Maximum and Astelli, and warring with Monoists via reconverting supervoids back into stars via weapons called horizontal javelins. Primarily humans. Secretly founded by Astelli.
    • Regent Maximum - The leader and most superior monarch of the Celestial Palatinate.
    • Cosmogrands - Lesser monarchs of the Celestial Palatinate seeking expansionism, both economic and astronomical.
    • Companies - Military forces consisting of lords and knights
      • The Sunstar Free Company - The de facto state army and Regent Maximum's current favored company. The Celestial Palatinate's main influence within the Sothera system.
  • The Illvoi Bloom (Blue mana) - A species and culture of jellyfish-like lifeforms, capable of cloudsculpting: desublimating gases into desired solids via innate psychic magic and augmented technology. They are a major proponent of Pinnacle's scientific community.
    • Uthros Combine - A private research group of Illvoi on Uthros. Publicly researching new atmospheric engineering techniques. Secretly researching Eldrazi.
  • The Monoists (Black mana) - A faith seeking INEVITA, the death of the Edge as paradise, via turning stars into supervoids, worshipping He Who Plummets, and warring with Summists. Primarily humans. Founded by Susurians.
    • The Monasteriat - The governing religious body of Monoism
  • The Kavaronic Federal Empire (Red mana) - The governing body of Kav, a relatively new but historically rich empire of Kavu seeking refuge from their collapsing native planet Kavaron due to their reckless mining of the planet's moxite.
  • The Eumidians (Green mana) - Brood of an ancient terrasymbiotic species that spread throughout the universe via seedships, colonizing starships containing microbiota that evolve quickly into insectoid lifeforms with both biology and culture best suiting their new environment as well as terraforming capabilities making the environment best suit them.
    • Evendo-strain Eumidians - The specific Eumidian strain which has landed on Evendo, terraforming its equator into lush forests but also adapting culturally and biologically to its glacial surroundings. Left hibernation recently due to the heating of Evendo from meteors originating from the crumbling planet Kavaron.

Visitors

In-game references

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References

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Miguel Lopez, Jay Annelli, Laurel Pratt, and Amanda LaFranco (June 20, 2025). "Planeswalkers Guide to Edge of Eternities". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  2. ↑ Going Galactic in Edge of Eternities with The Magic Story Podcast (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (June 20, 2025).
  3. ↑ Magic: The Gathering (October 25, 2024). "This set will introduce fans to "the Edge"". Twitter.
  4. ↑ The Foundations of Magic’s Next Era (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (October 25, 2024).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Rich Larson (July 2, 2025). "Edge of Eternities: Compact Me to Zero". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  6. ↑ As depicted in Sothera, the Supervoid (Edge of Eternities, #115).
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Aimee Ogden (July 3, 2025). "Edge of Eternities: The Wefthunter". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  8. ↑ a b c d Seth Dickinson (July 3, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 9". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Seth Dickinson (June 21, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  10. ↑ Stomping Ground (Edge of Eternities)
  11. ↑ Breeding Pool (Edge of Eternities)
  12. ↑ Sacred Foundry (Edge of Eternities)
  13. ↑ Watery Grave (Edge of Eternities)
  14. ↑ Godless Shrine (Edge of Eternities)
  15. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Seth Dickinson (June 25, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 3". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  16. ↑ a b c Seth Dickinson (July 1, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 7". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  17. ↑ a b c d e Seth Dickinson (July 1, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 8". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  18. ↑ a b c d e f Seth Dickinson (June 27 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 5". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  19. ↑ a b c Seth Dickinson (June 26, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 4". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  20. ↑ a b c d Seth Dickinson (June 30, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 6". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  21. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Seth Dickinson (June 24, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 2". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  22. ↑ a b c Kemi Ashing-Giwa (July 1, 2025). "Edge of Eternities - Kadrik and the Pod". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  23. ↑ a b c AnaMaria Curtis (June 25, 2025). "Edge of Eternities: The Doors of Uthros". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  24. ↑ a b Seth Dickinson (July 4, 2025). "Edge of Eternities Episode 10". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  25. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (February 21, 2025). "The Preview Panel - MagicCon: Chicago 2025 (Video)". Magic: The Gathering. YouTube.
  26. ↑ Magic: The Gathering (October 25, 2024). "There are many new things awaiting you in #MTGEternities, but there is one familiar face that players have been wanting to see more of". Twitter.
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