De Rebus Abiensibus

I was recently reminded of the Abh, and I recently purchased the 4e Manual of the Planes, so let's put them together.

It's actually very easy, and is disturbingly githlike.

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As you may know, many a mortal world and sun lie suspended in a crystal sphere floating in the infinite Astral Sea.

Upon the Astral Sea, literally unthinkably* many miles from any familiar plane, sprawls the galaxy-sized Empire of the Abh (Bar Frybarec), claiming some 400,000 crystal spheres (25,000 of which are inhabited, 2,000 of which self-sufficiently so), and perhaps more importantly, the space between them. The Abh themselves rarely live on the surface of a world; some do live in outposts within crystal spheres, but most dwell in the Astral Sea proper.

The Empire's capital city, Lacmhacarh, is a special case; it is built from the ruins of a shattered, worldless crystal sphere. The city grows from the crystal shards, and an occasional duty of units of the Abh Fleet is to break up the accreting crystal sphere that naturally forms around a star in the Astral Sea.

The Empire rules its spheres with a relatively light touch; in practice, most of its worlds are self-ruling, though deferring (at least in theory) to their Abh liege. The Sea is somewhat more directly ruled, although often an Abh who is lord of an astral demesne will also be that demesne's only inhabitant (perhaps with their family and hired servants).

～つづく～

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* There are finitely many human minds on Earth. Each mind is finite, and has finitely many distinct states. A subset of these mental states represent specific well-defined real numbers, possibly via equational definitions. In a set of finitely many real numbers, there must be a largest number; therefore, there is a largest real number that any human on Earth can conceive of.

This number is larger than that.