Consensus Reality

Consensus Reality is the status quo of reality as perceived by individuals whose similar local morphic fields regularly interact and locally enforce the laws of reality in their vicinity, permeating through both space and time and certain higher dimensions imperceptible to humans. The function of consensus reality is to increase general permanence in a certain area in order to improve chances of sentient life being able to sustain itself at advanced states, through the convenient solidification of concepts and logic as accepted by the entities generating it. A failure of consensus reality may result in drastic consequences for the host population. Each and every consensus reality can be theoretically measured by average range both on the permanence and entropy scales, but a massive enough consensus reality will often present great variation between its constituent parts.

Conflict
Clashes between different local consensus realities often only occur between those which are similar, as wildly different consensus realities such as between those of different species are unable to merge and simply cause individuals on both sides to reject the other, creating a clear divide. It is, however, possible for a consensus reality to grow or shrink in smaller increments, with mismatching pairs eventually growing closer and becoming communicable to one another. This process occurs due to the increase or decrease in knowledge possessed by the population maintaining the consensus reality. While a decrease in the range of a consensus reality can deprive a population of science and technologies they may otherwise be able to utilise, a range increase may make that same population more vulnerable to dangers located on the edges of the consensus reality beyond their understanding. Thus, the differences between the consensus realities of two populations is one of the contributing factors to the coherence between them.

Reality Bending
As both paraphyiscal and exophysical reality bending (but mainly paraphysical) both rely on the malleability of reality, they benefit from a wider consensus reality as it reduces the amount of energy required to make a certain change, given that a wider consensus essentially indicates a larger realm of possibility within the consciousness of the caster. This is notably further extended by cognitomancers, whose intrinsic mnestic filters allow them to observe things outside of the consensus reality and manipulate them.

Paraphysical syntax created within a consensus reality becomes a part of it, allowing individuals within the population to more easily access them even after the death or destruction of the syntax progenitor. It is through these means that the syntaxes created by ThoughtForms are still presently employed by mages throughout the multiverse.