The Resonance Realms are a deep and endless part of the Matrix formed from Resonance. It is home to sprites and paragons. The Resonance Realms share similar properties to that of a UV Host, often making hacking difficult and feeling as real as (or more real than) reality.
What the Resonance Realms are and how they exist are highly debated. Some believe that the Resonance Realms are a mental construct of Technomancers, only existing as long as a person can perceive their existence, and gone as soon as a person leaves it. Others believe that the Resonance Realms are a deep Metaplane which Technomancers are able to tap into, though this theory is often dismissed by academics.
Submerging into the Realms[]
To enter the Resonance Realms is quite difficult.
Technomancers need to under go a process called submersion. It is often compared to diving and involved an emotional and spiritual attunement to resonance. It can be performed with a Resonance Network (a group of like minded technomancers). It may also involve a submersion task which will challenge a technomancer's abilities and tune them to the resonance.[1]
For anyone else, it requires dealing with a free sprite; who's wants, desires, and motivations can often be very alien from a Metahuman, or finding a Resonance Rift; which are more often stumbled upon than found and can vanish just as quickly as they appear.
A Technomancer after visiting the Resonance Realms is able to more easily pass the Event Horizon, a kind of Matrix barrier that separates the Matrix from the Resonance Realms.
Notable Locations[]
The Crooked House[]
The Crooked House appears to be a single room house on a highway. However once inside it appears to contain numerous rooms and hallways and no discernable exit. Rooms and hallways may loop back on each other, where it's possible to view one's self down a hallway that they're currently in.
The Endless Archive[]
The Endless Archive appears to look like an endless library with countless rows of books, containing all data that has ever existed on computational devices, possibly predating the internet. The data is completely unorganized making it very difficult to impossible to find exact data. There are some sprites that attempt to organize the data in a seemingly random or illogical fashion, and may be willing to help locate specific data in exchange for some data that has never been on the Matrix before.
The Shattered Haven[]
The Shattered Haven was once a large city that floated over an ocean of data. It acted as refuge for Otaku that sought to escape the wilds of the Resonance Realms. However, it had become a warzone between Resonance Sprites and Dissonance Sprites. In the end, the Dissonance Sprites won and covered the city in black oily malignant code turning it into a twisted parody of it's once former glory.
New Haven[]
New Haven is the new city founded by the Sprites that abandoned the Shattered Haven. It's located in a harsh desert and requires several days travel to locate the oasis inside a deep chasm. The sprites here are specialized in combating dissonance sprites. While it is much smaller than old Haven, it's growing. Agents of the dissonance maybe willing to trade for information about New Haven.
The Great Connection[]
The Great Connection is a large tree that floats in a large lake of data. Its branches represent all the connections in the Matrix and its leaves represent every device on the Matrix. From the Great Connection it is possible to travel to any node in the Matrix no matter how secure.
Tombstones[2][]
A graveyard containing tombstones that contain the last output of abandoned programs. There appears to sprites maintaining the grounds that look like people that died in the Matrix. These sprites do not appear to want to interact with people.
Kernel Panic[3][]
A realm of raw resonance. It has no clear iconography. It is simply a realm of bright colors, scents, and sounds in seemingly random patterns.
The Factory[3][]
This appears to be a factory where sprites assemble other sprites.
Cruft[4][]
This appears to be a deeper resonance realm containing image and simsense memes. Visiting this realm can become habit forming implying it may have some addictive quality.
Out of Band[5][]
Is a resonance realm that connects other resonance realms. All data passes through this realm. There are rumors that it might be possible to modify data here to create false backups.
Human Malice[6][]
This is a dissonant realm that mirrors the Endless Archive. It contains malice data such as insults, angry messages, revenge porn, black mail material, etc etc. While most of this data is also probably in the Endless Archive too, it is front and center in his realm.
Mind Realms[7][]
A realm where the copies of the original personalities of people infected with CFD exists.
Index[]
- Unwired
- Data Trails
- Kill Code 124-128