Planar Pilgrims

Much is not yet known about the structure of our universe. While our scientific understanding of the nature of theoretical dimensions and complex quantum concepts grows with increasing celerity, there are yet many things we don’t understand. Other creatures, however, might experience reality from incredibly different points of view. Some of these beings might have earned this capabilities through study and technology, while others could very well grow with inherent talents or senses that open completely new possibilities for them. This, obviously, is all theory, but human folklore all over the world is filled with examples of creatures that cross into our world from other dimensions or planes of existence.

These beings, to which we will refer collectively as planar pilgrims, seem to vary wildly in degree of manifestation, physical attributes and behaviour. Scholars believe that some pilgrims can only partially appear in our three-dimensional world, making them inherently difficult to detect without using specialised equipment, while some other individuals might have supernatural talents that can mask temporarily their presence from us. Some scientist theorise that most unexplained phenomena usually linked with demons, ghosts or a plethora of otherworldly creatures could simply be the side-effects of planar pilgrims passing through our reality.

Other specialists also think that it is possible that some of these pilgrims get stranded on our world, at least temporarily. These castaway visitors may react with violence towards this dimension or its inhabitants, either out of understandable fear of the unknown or because the way the laws of physics work might be anathema to their species. Either way, some students of the paranatural believe that a better understanding of these creatures would help everybody involved and maybe even open the door to a new age of planar travel and interdimensional cooperation.

Nevertheless, independently of the particular beliefs and hopes of each individual, we can only hope that, if these pilgrims exist, they continue being demonstrably less invasive and vicious than our own species. At least until we can develop reliable methods of communicating with them or proof their absence. From then on, our main problem will be holding back our own animosity towards the other.