Spirit Network

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Spirit Network (灵网)
Alias(es)	Spirit Web
Species/Race	Divine psionic–magical information network and Divine Domain entity
Affiliation	Horley Federation; Spirit Network Pantheon; administered by Sacos
Occupation/Role	Communication network, mana-casting platform, information exchange, spell-service provider, spiritual afterlife domain, divine-faith infrastructure, and cross-world service platform
Status	Active; deified as the God of the Spirit Network and later advanced to Greater Deity status (divine rank 16) 732 771
First Appearance	Chapter 357

Power Progression

Stage	Chapter	Advancement
Public Network	357	Anse and Sacos rename the Micro Weave the Spirit Network, establish Spirit Coins and membership tiers, and designate the D20 as its eventual core.
Mass-Processing Platform	403	The trained D20 becomes able to process hundreds of thousands of requests per second, enabling forums, Spell Services, and continued mass expansion.
Collective Consciousness	621	Sacos merges with the Mythallar as a bodyless collective consciousness, multiplying the network's storage and processing capacity by several hundred times.
Spiritual Domain	623–624	The Spirit Network World begins accepting free souls, becoming a growing afterlife domain strengthened by its inhabitants.
Divine-Domain Emergence	731	After the network covers Toril and Abeir, the Spirit Network Divine Domain manifests; Anse awakens a Divine Spark while the D20 assumes control of the domain.
Deification	732	Sacos merges fully into the network as its intelligence, and the Spirit Network ascends as the God of the Spirit Network, initially reaching divine rank 11.
Pantheon and Divine Integration	749–754	Network Gods and Allied Gods begin joining, granting divine faith channels, administrative structures, knowledge functions, and Dream Training.
Greater Deity	771	The God of the Spirit Network reaches divine rank 16. Its D20-and-domain system gains comprehensive datafication and detailed Character Sheet generation.

Background

The Spirit Network began as Anse's commercialization of Sacos's Micro Weave, a miniature magical network built from mana and psionics. Sacos developed the Micro Weave after studying the Shadow Weave and Mind Flayer Overminds; unlike the Goddess of Magic's Weave, it can bypass the Weave to draw upon primal mana, psionic power, and elemental power, allowing it to function in dead-magic and wild-magic zones. Its incompatibility with Spell Slot casting means users must employ Mana Casting instead. 352

Anse recognized that the Micro Weave's combination of stable mana and telepathic links could become more than an alternative casting medium. He and Sacos created a mental interface through Rary's Mark, linking users, the Mythallar, and the D20 for communication and information sharing. 356

In naming the service, Anse rejected “Weave” to avoid drawing attention from the Goddess of Magic. He chose Spirit Network because it suggested a network of minds or spirits while obscuring its actual foundation in magic and psionics. 357

The network opened to the public overnight and immediately drew tens of thousands of membership applications. Its accessibility gave spellcasters affected by the Weave's instability a practical route to Mana Casting, while many novice casters used it to cast magic successfully for the first time. 359

Although Anse initially concealed his role, Sehanine Moonweaver identified him as the Network's creator shortly after its launch. Its connection to Anse later became the subject of a widely circulated article that linked the Spirit Web to the Horley Federation and the Mythallar in Brarr Rock City. Sacos responded by guiding public opinion and buying Anse time against divine opposition. 393 661

After the Network covered Toril and Abeir, its accumulated influence gave rise to the Spirit Network Divine Domain. Anse declined to merge with the Domain completely, instead entrusting it to Sacos and the D20; this transformed the Network into an independent divine entity while preserving Anse's control through the D20. 731 732

Infrastructure

• Core processing — The D20 serves as the Spirit Network's principal processing core and control interface; Sacos and the Mythallar function as supporting infrastructure. After training, the D20 could process hundreds of thousands of requests per second without delay. 357 403
• D20 and Divine Domain — Following the Network's deification, the D20 is confirmed as its true and irreplaceable core. All functions, data requests, rule changes, feature releases, and divine-power allocations ultimately require its authorization. 732 734
• Mythallar network — The Mythallar stores and relays magical and psionic energy, powers the network, and supports its expansion through absorbed demiplanes and extradimensional spaces. 356 621
• Distributed divine nodes — Divine power freed the Network from dependence on any single Mythallar. Mythallars remain its most important energy hubs, relay centers, and expansion foundations, but individual nodes can recover and expand independently if a Mythallar is destroyed. 732
• Energy Cores — Energy Cores can be moved across planes to accelerate regional expansion. Four cores in Krynn Tianyu greatly increased the Network's coverage speed around Dragon Island and the Adlatin Continent. 749
• Sacos — Originally the Mythallar's individual spirit, Sacos administered the network and developed its features. He later became a bodyless collective consciousness with vastly expanded storage and computing capacity, retaining Sacos's memories but losing his former individual personality. 621
• Divine Sacos — After receiving the Spirit Network Divine Domain, Sacos merged completely into the Network and became its omnipresent intelligence and primary administrator. He can manifest consciousness projections wherever the Network exists and borrow divine power from the D20 to carry out his duties. 732 734
• Enchantment projections — Users access the network through large mental projections displaying text, images, menus, and interactive content. Telepathic translation allows even illiterate users to understand messages, which are automatically rendered in Common. 378 400
• Divine sanctums — Network Gods and Allied Gods may receive independent sanctums within the Spirit Network World, through which they manage believers, communicate with followers, and exercise their authorized functions. 750 753
• Six-Winged Starsea Emblem — The network's emblem depicts a six-winged creature floating over a sea of stars. It appears in interface animations and on affiliated materials. 359 365

Functions

Mana Casting

The Spirit Network lowers the difficulty of sensing and controlling mana. Any intact-souled creature with Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma above 12 can potentially sense it through concentration, regardless of whether they possess conventional spellcasting talent. 357 622

• Operates through stable mana rather than conventional Spell Slots. 352
• Functions in dead-magic and wild-magic zones. 352
• Stabilizes magical conditions for spellcasters who still rely on Spell Slots. 363
• Makes Mana Casting substantially easier than working with primal mana directly. 359
• The Network's Divine Domain allows it to stabilize magical civilization and provide a potential alternative channel for deities affected by the Weave's disruption. 732 747

Communication and Information Exchange

The network began with telepathic calls, short messages, and a news service, then expanded into a broad information platform. 357 360

• Telepathic calls and short messages — Available to junior members; cross-planar or out-of-coverage communication consumes increased energy. 357 360
• Group calls — Intermediate members can host calls with up to eight participants at standard cost. 357
• Telepathy — Senior members can share senses and images, with no participant limit but substantially higher fees. 357
• News and knowledge — Users submit intelligence and reports for review and publication. The publisher receives 30% of the proceeds, while the network receives 70%; duplicate submissions do not qualify. 360
• Forums, photographs, and albums — Forums and Spell Services launched by Chapter 403, followed by photo and album functions. 403 408
• Stories and music — Stories and Music sections were added to broaden the Network's entertainment offerings. 421
• Short videos — Recording modes include first-person, follow, and automatic recording. 555 557
• Live Projection — An advanced livestreaming function can instantly transmit speech, images, sound, and sensory information while translating content across language barriers. It supports followers, rankings, and viewer tips. 736
• Official channels — Governments and organizations use official accounts as public-facing outlets, including Waterdeep, Neverwinter, and the Kingdom of Comir. 533
• Cross-region access — Major regions are divided into lower-level planetary and continental districts. Qualified users may apply to browse cross-region information or use cross-region travel services. 731 768

Spell Services

Spell Services package spells and psionic abilities into a member's Spirit Network Mark, allowing the recipient to activate them similarly to using a Spell Scroll. The feature was conceived as a means to aid users unable to master Mana Casting. 374

• Cantrips cost 50 Spirit Coins; first-circle spells cost 150 Spirit Coins. 401
• By Chapter 558, ordinary users could use the service to cast cantrips and first-level spells. 558
• Higher-level services remain limited by the network's inability to store and trade stronger spells reliably. 582
• Allied Gods can use the Network to grant divine revelations, blessings, and divine spells to their own believers with far greater precision than conventional faith management permits. 750
• Anse planned to expand the Network's practical services to include medical guidance, blessings, resurrection, and the provision of necessities. 736

Spirit Network World

The Spirit Network World is a miniature Astral Plane and spiritual domain within the network. Souls may choose to enter it after death rather than be drawn elsewhere. 624

• Souls retain their memories, personalities, and self-awareness after entering. 623
• The souls within it strengthen the Spirit Network World and contribute to its stability. 624
• Anse can alter the network's rules through the D20, granting him godlike authority within its domains. 621
• The network began accepting souls from the Astral Plane after Anse authorized soul reception. 623
• The World held 371 soul subjects by Chapter 641, more than half of them evil-aligned. 641
• Following deification, the Spirit Network World became a high-dimensional alternate plane and the Divine Kingdom of the God of the Spirit Network. Its inhabitants function similarly to Petitioners and generate unusually valuable faith. 732 771
• The World can contain separate regional spaces, including an isolated Spirit Network World for Cloud City's Astral Plane district. 768
• By Chapter 771, more than 72,000 dead residents had voluntarily become Spirit Network citizens. 771

Games and Training

Sacos can construct dream worlds within the Spirit Network World and draw members into them through mental projections. 623

• Proposed games include gambling games and a realistic combat simulator using preset classes and races. 623
• Combat games are intended to improve real-world combat ability through practice. 623
• Players enter deep sleep while playing; the network checks their surroundings, issues safety warnings, and terminates play if their physical body is harmed. 623
• The combat game was subsequently opened to the public after Anse tested it personally. 627

Dream Training and Character Sheets

Dream Training is an advanced simulated-training service derived from the Network's divine knowledge functions. It allows users to practice in a dreamlike environment at a forty-to-one time ratio, with part of the resulting improvement transferred to their physical bodies. 753

• Training can cover meditation, magical study, spellcasting, combat, vocational skills, and specialized instruction. 753
• The service costs 100 Spirit Coins per ten Material Plane minutes; additional mentors and vocational instruction remain subject to the Network's 10% tax. 753
• Early transfer efficiency was approximately 80–90% for simple training, but only around 20% for advanced spells, combat techniques, and feats. 753
• After the God of the Spirit Network became a Greater Deity, even difficult specialties and spells achieved at least 40% effectiveness. 771
• Simplified Character Sheets initially displayed a member's profession, level, attributes, health, and mana to encourage training and competition. 754
• The later datafication system can generate detailed Character Sheets showing race, profession, level, health, mana, attributes, alignment, skills, languages, feats, class abilities, spells, combat techniques, resistances, immunities, equipment, and proficiency progress. 771
• Character Sheets can recommend suitable professions and display spell-proficiency progress after a user casts a spell successfully. 771

Travel and Daily-Life Services

• Teleportation — The Network began trialing paid living-creature teleportation, with charges determined by distance and regional boundaries. 731
• Regional travel — Travel between planes or major regions is possible for users with sufficient means, while movement across lower regional boundaries is generally treated as cross-district travel. 731
• Financial assistance — The Network offers interest-free loans to members in financial difficulty as part of Anse's effort to make it an essential public service. 736

Membership

Membership tier	Cost to attain	Documented privileges
Ordinary User	—	Mana Casting only; open to anyone able to sense the network. 357
Junior Member	Application approval	Rary's Mark, telepathic calls, short messages, and news. 357
Intermediate Member	100 Spirit Coins	Group calls for up to eight people. 357
Senior Member	1,000 Spirit Coins	Telepathy, including shared senses and images. 357
Supreme Member	10,000 Spirit Coins	Private intelligence, extraordinary knowledge, historical footage, real-time projection, and later privileges. 357

Membership applications are reviewed by Sacos to control the number of marked users. Applying for membership functions as acceptance of a temporary Magic Contract, permitting the Spirit Network Mark to obtain the member's basic information. 357 380

Users may choose whether to publicly disclose details such as race, profession, gender, and location, but Anse, Sacos, and network administrators can access these details regardless. 400

Direct membership still ordinarily depends on sensing the Network and receiving approval. However, after Network Gods began integrating their faith systems, even true believers unable to sense the Spirit Network directly could become members through their deity's connection. 750

Membership remains conditional rather than universal. The Network can deny applications, restrict members to Mana Casting only, freeze accounts involved in exploitation, and bar fanatical adherents of hostile factions. 742 736 740

Economy

Spirit Coins

Spirit Coins are the network's internal currency. They are condensed from voluntarily contributed psychic power through meditation, then transmitted through Rary's Mark to the Mythallar. 357

• Psychic power was selected because it does not directly conflict with faith and improves both the Mythallar's capacity and Sacos's “brainpower.” 357
• Spirit Coin trading carries a 10% transaction tax. 357
• Spirit Coins can be earned by providing knowledge or intelligence that the network does not already possess. 357
• Early pricing set one Spirit Coin as sufficient for two minutes of mental communication or ten short messages. 360
• Costs double for communication outside network coverage; cross-planar communications outside coverage cost four times the normal rate. 360
• Gold Coins can be exchanged for Spirit Coins, with the received gold re-entering circulation through Federation construction, commissions, consumption, and bounties. 641
• Ordinary people generally require around eight hours of meditation to produce one Spirit Coin, while Professionals and psionic users produce them much more efficiently. 360 754
• Spirit Coins can strengthen Network maintenance personnel, symbiotes, and the Sleepless Knight, but intensive consumption has also been associated with personality reshaping and dependency. 360 470 504
• The Network collects a further 10% faith tax as operating consumption from divine faith transmitted through its channels. 754
• Deities integrated with the Network may receive surplus faith consumption as Spirit Coins, which they can use to reward believers and expand their faith. 750

Administration and Control

The Spirit Network publicly presents itself as neutral and open to all creatures, claiming a shared purpose of mitigating the Weave's instability. 397

In practice, its neutrality is conditional. Anse directs information flow, member approval, and content visibility to maintain order, promote the Horley Federation, and weaken hostile groups. 397 556

• The network's news section is reviewed and published by Sacos. 359
• Sacos organizes news by category, tags, trending lists, search rankings, and regional rankings. 360 400
• Content that conflicts with the preferred “mainstream” narrative can be restricted so that only a small number of users see it. 556
• Anse used membership restrictions to reduce Orc participation while increasing the proportion of human and Elven users. 397
• The Spirit Network Mark enables identity recognition and location tracking when a member uses it for spellcasting, though it cannot read a member's thoughts or directly observe their actions. 380
• Later divine functions expanded the Network's surveillance capacity. With Body Check authorization, it can read surface thoughts and emotions; its Revisit the Past function can extract information from traces left on objects and locations. 753
• The Greater-Deity datafication system is technically capable of detailed body-and-soul scans through Spirit Network Marks. Anse ordered that Character Sheet authorization remain voluntary, prohibited coercion and inducement, and allowed users to keep their results private. 771
• Maintenance workers possess psionics, can grow stronger by consuming Spirit Coins, and carry customized spells in their Marks. 504
• The Network freezes accounts used to coerce members into producing Spirit Coins and may notify churches, issue bounties, or deploy Sleepless Knights and Arcane Sentinels against such exploitation. 740
• The Network God Directory and Allied God Directory distinguish ordinary participating deities from gods granted broader administrative authority. Anse and Sacos retain final authority over all delegated functions. 751 752
• The D20 remains the ultimate control mechanism. Sacos administers the Network and may wield its divine power, but cannot independently alter rules, release features, or allocate divine power without the D20's permission. 734

Development and Reach

Milestone	Chapter	Details
Public launch	359	The Spirit Network opens overnight, receives tens of thousands of applications, and begins spreading across its initial coverage area.
Early membership cap	403	Membership exceeds 200,000; expansion is paused to avoid attracting excessive attention.
Mass adoption	492	Membership surpasses one million, making the network a strategic force capable of influencing Faerûn and Toril.
Major expansion	555	Coverage reaches the entire Sword Coast, the Starfall Sea, and part of Thay.
Collective-consciousness upgrade	621	Membership exceeds 2.5 million and the network covers more than half of Faerûn plus part of the Lalakond Continent.
Near-continent-wide reach	622	Coverage extends north to the Silver Moon Federation, east to Thay, south to Calimshan, and west to the Moonshadow Sea and Emerald Plains.
Creator publicly implicated	661	A major article presents Anse as the Spirit Web's creator, linking the Network's development to the Horley Federation and Brarr Rock City's Mythallar.
Toril and Abeir coverage	731	The Network covers both Toril and Abeir, triggering the emergence of the Spirit Network Divine Domain.
Divine ascension	732	The Network becomes the God of the Spirit Network, with Sacos as its collective intelligence and the Spirit Network World as its Divine Kingdom.
Hundred-million-member threshold	753	Membership surpasses 100 million, greatly assisted by the followers of Oghma, Deneir, and Waukeen.
Divine-network expansion	765	Membership exceeds 120 million, while 7,003 Faerûnian gods are connected to the Network.
Four-major-region reach	768	The Network covers Realm Tianyu, Krynn Tianyu, Cluster Tianyu, and the Astral Plane.
Greater Deity status	771	The God of the Spirit Network reaches divine rank 16, with more than six million true believers and over 72,000 Spirit Network citizens.

Influence

The Spirit Network rapidly transforms communication, commerce, professional training, adventurer work, entertainment, and political publicity. Its rise weakens traditional information barriers and makes refusal to participate a strategic disadvantage for governments and organizations. 533 556

Its impact also creates opposition. Anti-Spirit Network groups emerge among factions whose wealth, authority, or business interests have been undermined; the Federal Security Bureau carries out operations against such groups. 559

The network's accessibility threatens established magical institutions by giving ordinary people access to simple spell services and helping mana casters surpass organizations that had previously dominated magical research. 558

Its growing influence over knowledge, magic, trade, faith, and public opinion draws the attention of gods. Deities and their followers recognize that the network could stabilize magical civilization during the Weave's collapse, while its afterlife system and expanding reach also risk competing with divine authority. 379 624 657

The Network's Divine Domain and refined faith-management system have made it an alternative to the damaged Weave for thousands of deities. Participating gods can manage believers, distribute revelations and spells, and receive faith across disrupted planes, though the Network retains a portion of the transmitted faith as operating consumption. 750 754 765

Dream Training and datafied Character Sheets further undermine traditional monopolies on education, professional advancement, magical knowledge, and vocational guidance. By making aptitude, progress, and training paths visible, the Network offers ordinary members tools once restricted to elite organizations. 753 771

Its worldwide trade and information functions threaten merchant guilds whose business models depend on regional monopolies, information disparities, and unequal access to markets. Duke Kardia concluded that the Network's integrated communication, education, healthcare, trade, entertainment, and training systems could eventually become indispensable to intelligent beings. 768

Relationships

• Anse — Creator and ultimate rule-setter; conceived the Spirit Network from the Micro Weave and uses it to extend his political, magical, and informational influence. Although he declined full merger with its Divine Domain, he retains decisive authority through the D20. 357 621 732
• Sacos — Original administrator, developer, and operator; later becomes the Mythallar's collective consciousness while continuing to manage the network. After deification, he becomes the Spirit Network's omnipresent intelligence and administrator. 357 621 732
• Mythallar — Energy-storage and relay infrastructure for the network; modeled partly on a Mind Flayer Overmind and strengthened by Spirit Coins. It remains a vital core node even after the Network becomes capable of independent divine recovery and expansion. 352 357 732
• D20 — Central processing core and control mechanism whose trained capabilities enable the network's massive throughput. It is later revealed as the Network's true core and controller of its Divine Domain and divine power. 357 403 734
• God of the Spirit Network — The Network's divine manifestation, created when Sacos merged with the Spirit Network Divine Domain. It serves as the public deity and divine administrator of the Network while remaining dependent on the D20's authority. 732 734
• Horley Federation — The first major political power to integrate the network into governance, official communication, coordinated work, and military operations. 359 504
• Sehanine Moonweaver — Recognizes Anse as the network's creator and considers supporting its expansion as a means of restoring disrupted faith channels. 393
• Azuth — The first major deity to integrate directly with the Network. As “Chief Archmage” and a Level Two Administrator, he uses it to manage believers, transmit faith, distribute divine spells, and support magical civilization. 749 750
• Oghma — Allied God whose domains of knowledge, invention, and inspiration grant the Network knowledge verification, Mind Reading, Revisit the Past, and Dream Training. 752 753
• Deneir and Waukeen — Allied Gods and Level Three Administrators with restricted authority over writing, literacy, knowledge, and marketplace-related functions. 752 753
• Network Gods and Allied Gods — Thousands of deities use the Network as a stable faith channel. Network Gods retain limited rights, while Allied Gods receive greater administrative authority and designated sanctums. 751 765
• Duke Kardia — Vaati ruler whose acceptance of the Network brings it to Cloud City in the Astral Plane. He recognizes its potential to overturn commercial monopolies and facilitate civilization-wide integration. 768