» Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:12 pm
It's like a nesting doll.
In the middle there is Mundus: a bubble of real-space which contains Nirn, Masser and Secunda (two halves of Lorkhan), and the Eight Divines, who themselves became planets in the act of creation.
And there is also a giant hole which Magnus ripped when he got disgusted with the whole thing and left, and that is the Sun.
Other Et'ada also left and tore smaller holes, and those are stars.
Outside of Mundus there is Oblivion where the Daedra live, and each Prince has his own plane there. Oblivion is Chaos, and Chaos is immortal, and nothing that lives there can ever die, it can only be temporarily discorporated.
Outside of Oblivion there is Aetherius, where the Nine Divines are, or rather what's left of them, because the act of creation diminished them. Other Aedra who escape are also there, presumably. That's where the holes (Sun and stars) lead to, and through these holes magicka seeps from Aetherius into Mundus. The biggest "seepage" being, again, the Sun; without the Sun, there would be no life, but also no magicka and consequently no magic. That's partially why Magnus is considered the patron of magic - that, and he also designed the "rules" by which magic operates on Mundus.