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Peculiarities

Peculiarities are anomalous areas that happen throughout the worlds, taking the form of unusual spaces that aren't part of the real world. They are encountered while travelling, typically alone without proper focus on your route, which may lead you down a path that wouldn't normally exist, ending up in the anomaly.   Attempts to study peculiarities have proven difficult as they don't appear when you are looking for them and tangible evidence is hard to find as they fade from existence the moment you leave, as do most objects brought from inside. This has left the only option being to gather the stories of those who have experienced them.   Peculiarities are fairly safe, there are no records of injuries outside of accidental trips or falls and there have been no deaths or near misses attributed to these places, but it is generally advised to be cautious if you find yourself in one and leave as soon as possible. It's easy to leave a peculiarity simply walk in the direction you think you entered from, away from any structures that may be present, and you'll quickly find yourself back on a more familiar path. Those who choose to explore further against advice are encouraged by many groups and organisations to document everything they can about their experiences and upload their findings to a Webnet forum page that can be used for research.   The true nature of these places is unknown, whether they are real locations or simply illusions. They are known to change as knowledge of the worlds expands, such as one recurring inhabitant who was previously known for having a home full of tiny landscape dioramas built on disks who suddenly swapped them to snowglobes in all encounters after the Lofi found their way off-world, discovering the snowglobe like structures that house their worlds. Due to these changes, it is popularly theorised that they are conjurations of the world's natural magic based upon the collective knowledge of the world's inhabitants.

Manifestation

Peculiarities take on many forms, though they always fit cleanly into the environment you encounter them, often to the point you might not even notice you were in one until you leave it and things return to normal. The easiest and most consistent tell of being within one is that the sounds of nature will sound unusually distant.   Most peculiarities are unremarkable, but some may find themselves among unexpected structures, or even finding people living there. While it is unlikely for someone to enter the same peculiarity twice, many have been re-encountered time and time again by different travellers, such as encounters with an unusual witch in her cabin full of curious snowglobes or a cavern with a glowing map of the stars upon its walls.

Localization

They can occur anywhere at any time but are typically found in places with obscured sightlines such as within forests, in valleys or even in alleyways or side paths in towns and cities. Despite this, they have been known to occur in more open areas when away from other observers, though these are few and far between.
Type
Metaphysical, Supernatural

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