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The Shains (purposely mistype of Chains) are objets, subjetcs, Essences, Planar Spaces, Planar Structures, etc. that are produced by the phenomena of Resonances of Essences of Milegu ¹. 

They are divided into two groups, the Resonant Shains and Planar Shains, although there are some other types. The later is the most important and is the one we will talk the most. When the word "Shain" is used it is mostly used to mean "Planar Shain", to the point that, by abuse of language, is specified what type of Shain it is only if it is a Resonant Shain.

Definition

The Planar Shains are groups of Planar Spaces (or planar individuals) connected through Milegu. They are also known by the name of Distributed Planar Spaces. 
Collectively, with Qruzes [spanish name for Qroses] and Qqarduss [a mix between Shains and Qroses], are called Q's.

Its name comes from the corruption of the word "chains". There are Shains of many types, but generally share some basic characteristics.

The individuals that form part of a Shain are linked together across Milegu through planar connections (Qroses or others) that are located in different Planes or in the same Plane and have varying degrees of similarity to each other. The Planar Shains structures can be finite or infinite in size.

The Planar Structures, planar individuals and the planar qontinents.

A Planar structure is any structure related with Planar Spaces, both the physical space (the Planes or Interplanar Spaces) as those things that originate or are related in a concrete way with the Planar Space (Planar Traps, Planar Errors, Planar Walls, etc...).

According to the planar magnitude known as "individuality" Planar Spaces can be planar individuals or planar qontinents.

Planar individuals are the basic unit of any Shain. A planar individual is not a particular type of Plane but may be any of them. It is a property related to the structure of a Plane or Planar Space over other Planar Spaces. The property necessary of any Planar Structure to be a planar individual lies in being part of a greater Planar Space. That is, a planar individual (usually a Planar Space) is a distinct part within a Planar Space of large entity.

Any Planar Structure containing any other Planar Structures (associated with it) is known as "planar qontinent" while the Planar Spaces contained in them are known as individuals.

Obviously a Planar Structure that is not associated with the Planar Structure where it is, for example, a Planar Error in a Interplanar Space, it is not an "individual".

Attending to as planar individuals are presented in a Shain, it can be concluded that the Shains are Improper Planar Spaces, since its Qontinent don't have material existence.

That is, the Shains comprise of planar individuals while the Qontinent (the Shain), is composed of nothing more but its own planar individuals.

An example of Proper Planar Space is a Plane that have inside it a Nested Plane: the Planar Space acts as a Qontinent but have extension outside his individual (the Nested Plane).

Types of Shains

Types of Planar Shains

There are many types of Planar Shains. 

Overall, there are Planar Spaces distant from each other ²  and connected by Qroses (ie unions between Planar Spaces). But there are not only Shains that emcompassing Planar Spaces but also there are those that simply include within Planar Spaces as it could be Nested Planes, Universes, clusters, galaxies, planets etc ... Generally, the individual elements of Shain with the name of "individuals" of the Shain or simply "individuals" (as in planar individuals).

Here we will discuss five main aspects of Shains: co-similarity, oneness, the number of individuals, the planar extension of the Shain and structural variability in the Shain.

Co-similarty and "oneness"

The co-similarity of an individual of the Shain determines the similarity between several individuals, while the oneness determines whether these versions of reality are separated or in the same place. Both variables are intrinsically linked.

If the individuals of a Shain have a high co-similarity and high oneness means that its members (who are in the same place) are very similar. Is the case of Resonant Planets (although other Shains having the same properties being different individuals, such as Resonant Stellar Systems).

If the individuals of a Shain have an average co-similarity and high oneness means that its members (who are in the same place) are fairly similar to each other (but not equal to each other). In the case of Changing Planets. As in the previous case there are also Shains of the same type with different individuals like Changing Galaxies or Changing Universes. An example of Changing Planet would be the Neshl Earth, the Javvhe Planet or Ruwow Planet.

If Shain individuals have a low or no co-similarity and high oneness means their individuals (who are in the same place) they are highly divergent from each other. This is the case of the Infinite Parallel Worlds (IPW).

The Infinite Parallel Worlds is the name of a particular structure.

If the individuals of a Shain has a high co-similarity and low oneness, its individuals, (which are very similar) they are physically distant or metaphysically each other. This type of Shain is very prone to the formation of similar Shains. These similar Shains may be included in other structures, with a high probability that such structures are also included within the Shain. We are then talking about Qontent Shains. Is the case of the Zhûn (singular Zhîn), which "qontent" together (whether based in planets like the Zhîn of the Earth or based in other objects such like Zhîn of the Sun).

Number of individuals

The number of individuals of a Shain is generally infinite. However, there are many Shain that do not meet that criterion. At such Shain they are termed as Limited Shains, while those who have infinite individuals are called Unlimited Shains.

By adding this parameter we can describe a greater number of Shains. For example, the Clone-Worlds (or Qlon-Worlds) would be Limited Shains with maximum co-similarity and no "oneness" (that means, identical objects but placed in different places).

Planar extension

Another key feature is that the Shains are structures with an interplanar character, because they are groups of planar individuals. This means that as the Shain is the Qontinent of the planar individuals, is above the level of its individuals and extends through Planar Spaces in which they are found.

However, sometimes, these planar individuals may be in the same Plane (the example is given with Planes because when we analyze the Planes we can found the separation between physical proximity and abstract proximity) as its individuality is less than that of the Planes (for example, planets, galaxies, universes, etc., have less individuality).

The planar extension is the number of different Planes that all individuals of a Shain belong.

When the planar extension of a Shain is greater than 1 (that say, individuals belong to different Planes or Planar Spaces) it is a normal Shain. When the planar extension of a Shain is 1 (that is, individuals belong to the same plane) are known as Frozen Shains.

An example of Frozen Limited Shain would be Xhaawü or Sxylathonannq, while an example of Unlimited Frozen Shain would be Nermecodi (than even have Shains inside it, like the Frozen Shain of Nethsixuluis).

However, due to Alpkatchen ("there is always more"), there are more types: 

There are Shains with variants in which a planar part of individuals are in the same plane, while other individuals are in different planes. For the purposes of planar extension, these count as normal Shains but they have inside with parts that could be considered Frozen Shains.

The Liquefied Shains are mixtures between No-frozen Shains and Frozen Shains, showing groups of individuals sharing the same Planar Space, while other individuals are in different Planar Spaces.

There are also Planar Shains whose planar extension number is 1/2. This means that the Planar Shain individuals are in the same plane but are connected through vast space. Some Clone Worlds which are located in the same plane would fit into this definition.

Structural variability

The structural variability of a Shain is a complex parameter that describes the structural types of individuals of the same Shain. If structural variability parameters is high, it is similar to a null co-similarity of individuals. If this parameter is low, it describes the most common Shains described above.

However, the co-similarity and structural variability parameters are different because, although the individuals of a Shain with null co-similarty would be very different between them, they still are individuals of the same structural kind (for example, planets).

The high structural variability Shains have individuals that are totally different. An example would be the Million of Worlds (although the MOW is very complex to analyze). "Million of Worlds" have Planets, Universes, Worlds and Planes as individuals.

Although the most common individual when speaking of Shains may seem Planets, Shain can be formed with all kinds of elements (such as Planets, Dimensions, Planar Structures etc ...) and not only planets, even though nearly all examples given above are of Planets or worlds. That was done in order to explorer the concepts of Frozen Shains, that don't have individuals that are Planar Spaces.

Despite of trying here to clasificate a great number of different Shains, in Milegu there are infinite types Shains of incredible complexity or quite simple. Due to Alpkatchen ("there's always more") is impossible to analyze all of them.
Some Shains that we have not discussed here would be Cities-Cluster: Groups of giant cities of skyscrapers filled with thousands of flats in which each floor has endless rooms, each inhabited by a different solar system.

The Cluster-Cities mix features of Zhûn (they exists in different Planes), with Frozen Shains (there is also a Shain in its own Plane). A bit like a Liquefied Shain, but with higher structural differenciation.

Other kind of Shain would be the Spin-Planets (like the Neshlspik Planet). Other kind would be the Sand Planets. And as this, infinite more kinds.

Types of Resonant Shains

The Resonant Shains are Shains whose planar individuals are not Planar Spaces or Planar Structures, but objects of subplanar size, generally of less size than a Planet.

Individuals in these Shains usually are infinite copies of the same object and can be found both in different Planar Spaces and in the same Planar Space.

There are several known types of Resonant Shains: the Resonant Shains of Object and the Resonant Shains of Entities.

In the Multiverse of the Spheres, there are entities and places (or cities) that are Shains whose individuals are living beings (humanoid or not) having an archetypal quality and have an individual in each of the spheres.

Due to Alpkatchen, Resonant Shains of Objects occur larger than a plane, such as the Ringing Shains of Fundamentadores or the Ringing Shains of Ultramassive Milegu whales.

Dimensionality of Shains

Despite the name, the Shains not have single dimensionality, this means that its elements are not connected in a continuous manner with each other and connections of "is-doesn't-exist" type can occur.

Connections "is-doesn't-exist" are those in which an element A can be linked with a B element and the B element connected with a C element but from the perspective of A, the connection element B with the C element is impossible .

The translation into everyday language, is that taking whatever three Planar Spaces within a Shain, from one of the Planar Spaces it could be say with certainty that the other two planar spaces are not interconnected, however, from any of the other Planar spaces this connection is possible.

The Qqarduss

Qqarduss name comes etymologically from the union of words "Qruzes" (Qroses) and "Qadenas" (Shain) ³.
Due to the origin of the word Qqarduss, often considered to Qqarduss as a mixture of Shain and Qruze, by abuse of language, but it is not always so.
Technically, Qqarduss are a mixture of Planar Spaces with Qroses, but in some cases, the Qqarduss are a mixture of Shains with Qroses so can also be viewed as a special type of Shain.

The Qqarduss are "planar connections" (as Qroses) based on Planar Spaces. While normally a planar connection has only one entry point and one exit point, in a Qqarduss the midpoint has a unique and defined space. It is for this reason that it is sometimes the Interplanar Spaces are clasified (specially the Interplanar Fabric) as a kind of Qqarduss. However, it would not complety fit with the definition because the Interplanar Spaces or the Interplanar Fabric are not Planar connection themselves but Annexed Spaces to one planar individual.

That a Planar Space (or Interplanar Space) would be annex to a planar individuals means that it exists in all the extesion of that individual another Plane or planar individual different ⁴.

This qualification is highly debatable because the hyperspace (and often the Interplanar Spaces are analyzed as hyperspaces) itself can be seen on many occasions as connections, whether being at the same time Annexes to the whole planar individual.

The Qqarduss fully considered Shains are scarce: one of them was the Hyperspace itself or the Hyperspaces, Ten Portals (the Portals form between them a Shains) and others would be the Ethereal Places, but because it is precisely a junction between Qroses and Shains built by multiple beings (usually Origū) to visit the Milegu quietly. Although the Infinite Paths follow a similar logic are not considered Qqarduss, but Qroses.

*¹: Resonance Essences exists by the same phenomena (Ressonance).
*²: This "distance" is measured in abstract terms.
*³: Qqarduss mixture comes from the words "Qruzes" and "Qadenas" q_q_a_r_d_u_e_z_n_e_a_s_s: Qqardu (eznea) ss. There is also the latin word "kardo", which is one of the main routes (crossing from north to south) of the Roman camps: the Qqarduss therefore resemble kardo; They are a place for themselves and serve as a link between different points. Keep in mind, however, that the plural form of the word kardo is not Kardus but Kardos.
* ⁴: One consequence of this is that the space Planar Annex is accessible from all other Planar Space. A variable that planar known as planar accessibility.