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<blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 5905476" data-attributes="member: 55680"><p>New map and new compilation have been edited into the OP. The compilation now covers a bunch of recent additions, the Bitter Coast and the Grey Mountains. What's left is the Kingswood, the Westmarches, the Freeholds and Shuttered. So geographically the vast bulk of the work has been done but the remaining regions are the ones that have the most description to them, so there's still a lot of work to be done. The text shouldn't that THAT much longer, but then I'll still have to add in a bunch of art and expand the appendices that Sanglorian is working on so the whole thing will take awhile. When it's all done I'll spam it far and wide. Editing the new compilation is proving pretty damn time-consuming, but it's getting done bit by bit, this compilation is MUCH longer than the last one.</p><p></p><p>I've also changed the OP a bit in line with chutup's suggestions. We'll have to add to the glossary a bit to expand it though.</p><p></p><p>For the extra-planar stuff let me try to list the canon that we've established for all things extra-planar:</p><p></p><p>-The Weeper: it is strongly implied that the Weeper has magic that allows him to either open gateways for travel or can teleport himself. He's the strongest living mage we've detailed so far in this setting (but inactive so he won't be stepping on the toes of PCs) so that sort of power is very rare.</p><p></p><p>-The Dreamsong: the dreamsong is a dimension of dream that is created by the singing of whales. If enough whales are killed this dimension will be destroyed. Humans (and possibly other beings) can occasionally reach it in their dreams but elves cannot.</p><p></p><p>-The Windows: the windows of the City of Shuttered Windows, before they were shuttered, opened gateways that led to various places. To quote: "The founders of the City built it on a place of confluence, where the strange roads came together, and thus it was that the windows were first opened. Through these portals one could enter the strange roads. These roads cannot be found on any map; those who tread them will meet no other travellers, and see no landmarks beyond the eerie fog that surrounds them. But if they know the way, they will come in time quite unexpectedly to their destination, having travelled hundreds or thousands of miles in the space of a few hours. Such was the power of the City in its glory days, when traders arrived daily from the Twelve Nations and beyond."</p><p></p><p>-The Doors of the Elven Holt: the elven Holt that lies as the center of the Kingswood has various doors that connect it to various places in the forest. Precisely where each door leads depends on where the unicorn has been feeding. Some of these doors in the Kingswood also lead "elsewhere" rather than directly to the Holt.</p><p></p><p>-The Fey Realm: Somehow (it's not mentioned) the elves can enter fairy paths and "the paths through the Fey-Realm allow them to travel far and wide -- though of course there is a price to pay to each resident fairy for using these roads."</p><p></p><p>Also, to at least some extent, the Fey Realm bleeds over into the Kingswood, since the Kingswood does not seem to be completely over this world.</p><p></p><p>So the basic commonality is that all of these extra-planar thingies are used more as ways to get from one place in the real world to another place in the real world quickly, rather than destinations that you want to go to.</p><p></p><p>The Weeper's magic and the Holt's doors seem to allow for instantaneous travel while the paths in the fey realm and the windows of the City are roads through another plane of existence (it seems) that you can travel on and then pop out in some other real world place. So some really strong commonalities here. To what extent are all of these extra-planar shortcut dimensions the same thing? To what extent do they match up to the ethereal/astral/feywild/shadowfell/whatever planes?</p><p></p><p>This is really reminding me strongly of The Dark is Rising, as I said before.</p><p></p><p>So the above is a summation of Shrouded Lands canon about other dimensions, let's see what we can do if we mash that together with drek's posts...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daztur, post: 5905476, member: 55680"] New map and new compilation have been edited into the OP. The compilation now covers a bunch of recent additions, the Bitter Coast and the Grey Mountains. What's left is the Kingswood, the Westmarches, the Freeholds and Shuttered. So geographically the vast bulk of the work has been done but the remaining regions are the ones that have the most description to them, so there's still a lot of work to be done. The text shouldn't that THAT much longer, but then I'll still have to add in a bunch of art and expand the appendices that Sanglorian is working on so the whole thing will take awhile. When it's all done I'll spam it far and wide. Editing the new compilation is proving pretty damn time-consuming, but it's getting done bit by bit, this compilation is MUCH longer than the last one. I've also changed the OP a bit in line with chutup's suggestions. We'll have to add to the glossary a bit to expand it though. For the extra-planar stuff let me try to list the canon that we've established for all things extra-planar: -The Weeper: it is strongly implied that the Weeper has magic that allows him to either open gateways for travel or can teleport himself. He's the strongest living mage we've detailed so far in this setting (but inactive so he won't be stepping on the toes of PCs) so that sort of power is very rare. -The Dreamsong: the dreamsong is a dimension of dream that is created by the singing of whales. If enough whales are killed this dimension will be destroyed. Humans (and possibly other beings) can occasionally reach it in their dreams but elves cannot. -The Windows: the windows of the City of Shuttered Windows, before they were shuttered, opened gateways that led to various places. To quote: "The founders of the City built it on a place of confluence, where the strange roads came together, and thus it was that the windows were first opened. Through these portals one could enter the strange roads. These roads cannot be found on any map; those who tread them will meet no other travellers, and see no landmarks beyond the eerie fog that surrounds them. But if they know the way, they will come in time quite unexpectedly to their destination, having travelled hundreds or thousands of miles in the space of a few hours. Such was the power of the City in its glory days, when traders arrived daily from the Twelve Nations and beyond." -The Doors of the Elven Holt: the elven Holt that lies as the center of the Kingswood has various doors that connect it to various places in the forest. Precisely where each door leads depends on where the unicorn has been feeding. Some of these doors in the Kingswood also lead "elsewhere" rather than directly to the Holt. -The Fey Realm: Somehow (it's not mentioned) the elves can enter fairy paths and "the paths through the Fey-Realm allow them to travel far and wide -- though of course there is a price to pay to each resident fairy for using these roads." Also, to at least some extent, the Fey Realm bleeds over into the Kingswood, since the Kingswood does not seem to be completely over this world. So the basic commonality is that all of these extra-planar thingies are used more as ways to get from one place in the real world to another place in the real world quickly, rather than destinations that you want to go to. The Weeper's magic and the Holt's doors seem to allow for instantaneous travel while the paths in the fey realm and the windows of the City are roads through another plane of existence (it seems) that you can travel on and then pop out in some other real world place. So some really strong commonalities here. To what extent are all of these extra-planar shortcut dimensions the same thing? To what extent do they match up to the ethereal/astral/feywild/shadowfell/whatever planes? This is really reminding me strongly of The Dark is Rising, as I said before. So the above is a summation of Shrouded Lands canon about other dimensions, let's see what we can do if we mash that together with drek's posts... [/QUOTE]
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