One of those branches off the beaten paths is the Chorotopos branch. Along one axis, the root of this branch is the world known as Chorotopos. While most universes have magic-users or super-heroes, the physics of Chrotopos cannot support them. Carissa Sevar would find her items worthless and her spell slots to not be merely empty, but gone. Clark Kent would find no photonucleic effect to reinforce his atoms.

Neighboring universes contain the parallel worlds Chorotopos-Α and Chorotopos-Β. Chorotopos-Α also lacks magic-users and super-heroes. However, it is capable of supporting extraversal visitors' unusual abilities to a limited extent. Sevar would find her items still worked as long as they held a charge and her spell slots full until she used them. Kent would find his powers slowly fading, even under a yellow sun. Chorotopos-Β is fully capable of supporting magic-users and super-heroes; the yellow sun over Chorotopos would maintain Kent's abilities, though magic-users like Sevar may encounter some difficulties in fully utilizing the ambient mana.

Millennia ago, the first republic was formed from a naval alliance of philosopher-kings. Over time, more territory was incorporated into the alliance and it was federalized into the first republic. Eventually the republic fell and the Choronym Empire was born. The empire lasted over a thousand years, expanding and hegemonizing two continents' worth of territory before the last emperor was overthrown in absentia. (It turns out if the emperor decides to take a fishing trip and not come back while continuing to draw a salary, and then his successor does the same thing, the senate has very few responses available to it.)