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TheMouse:
The ghost's demesne seems to be a special case. It's her place, and she's caught up in her old life. So her place looks like her old life. I didn't get the impression that the similar appearance was an intrinsic thing about the Nevernever.

Rel Fexive:
I'm not sure what you mean.

TheMouse:
What I mean is that my impression is that the ghost's realm looked like Chicago only because it was her realm. Ghosts appear as the people they were in life. Likewise, it appears that their realms look like where they lived. Since she'd lived in Chicago, her realm looked like Chicago. That is, it is the fact that the realm was modeled after the ghost's former life, not any proximity to the actual Chicago, that makes it appear as Chicago.

If this is indeed the case, then you can get interesting things with which to play. For example, a long time resident in location A moves to location B and dies shortly thereafter, before really getting a chance to think of location B as home. Their death is terrible and leaves behind a ghost powerful enough to carve out a little niche in the Nevernever. Because of how the person thought of themself as a resident of location A, their realm looks a lot like location A at the time of their death.

So you could theoretically get a chunk of the Nevernever in modern rural Washington that looks just like 1920's New York City.

Rel Fexive:
Ah, I see what you mean now.  The demense was shaped by her rather than by Chicago, and only looked like sorta-Chicago because that's what she knew, yeah.  So this opens up the possibility of other (small) parts of the Nevernever being shaped by other creatures into... well, whatever they knew, as I suggested.

So what would the Nevernever hideaway of a grendelkin look like?  Or a nest of (Red of Black, take your choice) vampires?  Or potentially, if you want to take things that way: what would the site (in a "roughly corresponding location in the spirit world" way) of a major mortal disaster look like in the Nevernever?  A place shaped by the extreme and intense emotions of human beings in distress (some of whom died).  Is this even possible?

Our answers to this are only our own, and possibly inspiration for others ;)

Harlan Quinn:
Hmmmm..maybe I'm saying this wrong.    What I mean is, how is the Nevernever shared among the various mythos?   We've seen elves, trolls, etc and they all have a strong Anglo-Saxon background.   What I want to know is what about kami, oni, yeti, rashaka (sp?) etc...   How do they all share the Nevernever?  Is it divided nationally as well as between the seasons?

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