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> Then what are the forces that "bind you here"
"Centrality", or being the inventor of a very widespread and used physiological structure. If you create something, you hold the astral copyright for it, or at least "the right to use it or decide who can't use it." I can simply force my way into anywhere because too many people use the little thing I created back in a certain middle age of galaxies (it was the missing link between djinn, nomor/skinwalker and tritons, which allowed creator gods to come up with lyrans later on).
If someone doesn't like me being somewhere, I can just take away their "user certificate" and that race will die. This is also why there are races of viral beings who are super mad at me and refuse to evolve beyond that age's creations, they want to find a way around this thing but so far no one has come up with anything that can compete. Hint: djinn do not use this, but they don't mind me either, so there is no reason there should be a conflict.