Drifting Tokyo Cosmology Sketch

Basic stuff familiar to cosmology 1. Things will be different elsewhere. WIP.

Human World

Earth, the mortal coil, Ashihara no Nakatsukuni, IRL. Occupied by humans, and related creatures.

Spirit World

The penumbra. The spiritual shadow or aspect of the human world, in modern times divorced from it by the Wall or Great Barrier (dai-kekkai). Occupied by various kami, etc.

Makai

Supernatural realms connected to the human world. Occupied by demons (majin or mazoku), which are not always malevolent, but are never human. The demon kings (maou) are not concerned with damnation in the western sense, but lust after the riches of the human world.

Realms

The small worlds made by mighty human mages are typically accounted as being small makai.

Yomi

The low umbra. The world of the dead. A dark, quiet and polluted land where shades wander. Ruled by Izanami, and prowled by shinigami.

Jigoku

Regions of torment beneath Yomi for particularly awful souls. Presided over by the Yama Kings, who have duties to fulfil but have become increasingly corrupt in the modern age.

Heavens

Superior worlds to the human world. Sometimes visible, but hard to access.

Takama-ga-hara

The realm of the heavenly gods. Accessible, in theory, by the floating bridge of heaven, but this has not been possible recently if it ever was.

Chaos

The deep umbra.