I am creating a world, originally meant for dnd but now I want to branch it into other media, with deity like entity’s called eternals (note not gods this world only has 1 god but they divided up their power for reasons.) In this world eternals can be categorized into 2 categories, control of something ethereal which breaks their Tether to time and thus makes them referred to as temporal and control over something physical which breaks their tether to space, but I don’t know what to call them, the best Alexa can come up with is spacial or void touched but nothing she threw at me really seemed to stick

Edit: I’m seeing a lot of not quite what I was looking for, so I should have been a little more specific I don’t mean space as in outer space or the space between the stars, though I probably could have found a better term. I meant space in the more abstract sense, the duality is here and now, temporal eternals are disconnected from now and these eternals in trying to name are disconnected from here

  • Astral, from "ad astra" - "to the stars"

  • Aether, after the fifth classical element believed to fill the universe beyond Earth

    Or the etherium too

  • The star sea.

    I read a book recently that called it “the black sea”, it was a delight

  • The gulf between! The black! The astral expanse (not to be confused with my butt)! The final frontier! The celestial gates! The sucking void! The void of suck! Stellar blacktop! The velvet sea! The coldest hell!

  • Firmament

    FWIW the Firmament is, generally speaking, something rather solid.

    "Firmament" specifically refers to the sky as a boundary between the Earth and the Heavens, so I'm not exactly sure if this is what OP's looking for.

    Immediately what I thought of. It sounds poetic and mystical.

  • DnD usually uses something like the Astral Plane. You could call it the Stellar Sea for the inky darkness of space.

    I think you're looking for an adjective for the Material Plane though based on your description. Temporal vs Material.

    The spelljammer games of DnD setting has actual space travel between planets with the medium inbetween being called phlogiston.

  • I tend to use the term 'outer darkness' in reference to Matthew 8:12

  • One of my worlds calls it the Constellar Sea — the “Sea of Stars.” It’s described as a vast, primordial ocean where Naarin, the god of stories and starlight weaves constellations into being.

    The constellations are memories, aye, but they’re also semi-sapient wards meant to protect existence from the Depths Beyond.

    In truth, the Constellar Sea is like a fishbowl floating in dark, hungry waters. The wards keep the glass as strong as possible, but the pressure of the Depths - and the things which live in it - are always trying to shatter that barrier. 

    FWIW "Stellar Sea" would be "sea of stars".

    "Constellation" is from the Latin "constellation" meaning "a set of stars".

    "Stella" is Latin for "star", "con" means "together" or "with".

    Oh I know! I wasn’t basing it off of real language directly. The Constellar Sea is an ocean of stars, so I nickname it the Sea of Stars!

  • I might be overthinking it but a bit more information would be helpful here. What does it mean to have a tether broken? This feels important to understand what is actually going on with the eternals which can help with the naming. For temporals, does the breaking of their tether to time free them from the bounds of time so they live outside linear time (like Dr Manhattan), or does it trap them in human linear time? Once we know we can apply this to space.

    An eternal that’s FREED from the bounds of space, who can exist effectively everywhere at once could be called: Astral, Liminal, Universal, Spatial, or Dimensional. These would all pair well with Temporal bc they end with -al so they sound similar.

    An eternal that is BOUND to our 3-dimensional space could be called Anchored or Fixed or Bound. There aren’t many good words here that end in -al.

    Either way my recommendation would be to call them a Paron which is Greek for “present” as in ‘here.’ This could be a cool way of describing them as being always present because they are free from traditional space and so can be anywhere and everywhere or a cool way to describe them as stuck here, so they are only present “here.” (from Greek: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%8E%CE%BD). It doesn’t end in -al but it’s cool.

    Temporal has two meanings: ‘relating to time’ or ‘relating to worldly, as distinct from spiritual affairs/secular?’ If you take the second definition You could also consider renaming your Temporal “Chronal” and then you could use Temporal for the space eternals.

    A bit of clarity on which meaning you’re using and what the breaking of their tether does can help give you (and us) a lot of direction.

    What I mean by their tether being broken is that they are no longer bound to that aspect of reality, they were all once mortal so a temporal eternal can slip effortlessly through time because they are no longer bound to the now, theoretically both types could be present in two places at once through different mechanisms and the eternals I’m trying to name (so far I like liminal) are no longer bound to the here, so technically they are omnipresent but they still move through time linearly

  • Ive been using “The Empty”

  • Wouldn't temporal mean the exact opposite of what you describe temporals to be? I'm very confused what's the logic here.

    But, as for the question, I would have gone with ethereal, but you already use that to mean something else.

    Cosmic might work. The literal counterpart to temporal would be material.

    I use temporal because they have some control over their position in time

  • some terms used in my world

    the eternal black, komose, the astral ocean, space, up beyond, star land

  • Untime
    Void
    Space
    Aether
    Niflheim
    Cosmos
    DER RAUM

  • Spatial would work, I guess. Or material. Maybe dynamic, since they have power over physical things?

  • I know that Sunless Skies refers to their version of space as "The High Wilderness"

  • Maybe look into the concept of Aether

  • The astral, or maybe the cosmic

  • Pathfinder calls the void between the stars The Black Tapestry.

  • I mean you could just refer to it by the scale of reference. Like solar system, Star cluster, Galactic arm, galaxy, etc

  • The Phlogiston. Taken from archaic english. Also, “Aether” (which is the exotic gasses that fill the Phlogiston). Friction current lights up the Aether with bow waves commonly seen by ground-dwellers as “Auroras”. Vessels riding the Aetheric currents also make a ripping or roaring sound as they pass through, which those on the ground experiencing the auroras can still faintly hear.

    Phlogiston can be both singular or plural. Like the word “sheep”.

    Therefore you have Aetherials and Phlogiston.

  • The Celestial Expanse

    The Twinkling Sea

  • Space as in physical space? "Void" is a term classical philosophers used for space. Could also use "Ether", as used in the term "luminiferous ether", which is what old scientists called the medium of seemingly empty space that light travels through, before we realized that light doesn't travel through a medium.

  • Ginnungagap (gaping gap), which is the name of the cosmic abyss that existed before creation.

  • What about Dimensional? I know time is often referred to as a dimension and so it could be seen as a category above the Temporal beings, but if youre trying to capture the vibe of the vastness they've untethered from it seems like its got potential

  • The Void Between

  • The cosmos, the heavens, the abyss. Basically anything that sounds kind of abstract and vague

  • The: Stars, heavens, galaxy, universe, void, expanse, ether, flow, gap, zero pressure, vacuum, nothing, emptiness, between, cosmos, range, stretch, astral,

  • Based on your edit you mean space as in time and space and not like outer space. With this in mind maybe these words will work:

    Topological

    Spatial

    Dimensional

    Volumetric

    Positional or position

    Locus

    Locality

    Expanse

    Area

    Extent

    Interstice (I think this might be the one)

    Lacuna

  • Void, the black, astral night, dark, deep dark, deep dark with twinkling lights, aether

  • Distance, emptiness, gap, void, 

  • I find naming things difficult:

    As a world builder, I’m compelled to think about what the people my world call it.

    As a writer, I know that jargon which distracts from familiar concepts can be harmful to readers.

    With that said, the more you think about it, the more the term “space” kind of sucks. If you’re going to go for a new term, go for it! But beware of limiting other jargon.

    The problem I run into is not that I’m trying to come up with a new name for something that exists, if I was trying to find another way to describe outer space Google would have easily given me an answer, the problem I am running into is that’s the wrong definition of space, the entity’s I’m trying to name are disconnected from space in terms of location, like they may appear here but that’s just how they show themselves, they could be anywhere with just a thought or be everywhere and know everything that’s going on