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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7604748" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>The D&D spell, <strong>Magnificent Mansion</strong>, is a useful tool for a DM to represent a Norse or Norse-esque setting.</p><p></p><p>There are many examples of ‘extradimensional spaces’ in Norse beliefs (and in Scandinavian folkbelief too).</p><p></p><p>A dvergar might leave the door open on the side of a hill, where inside the hill is a luxurious home. </p><p></p><p>Entering a burial mound might enter a spooky large multi-level crypt, where undead náir warriors gather around a viking longship floating as if on open waters, and the warrior leader sits on a throne in a longhouse at a lower level entered thru the ship. Transitions from one room of the Magnificent Mansion to an other can be dreamlike. </p><p></p><p>The entire ocean can be the space of a longhouse, whose entrance is on any water surface, perhaps with steps leading down, and where other nature beings can gather. </p><p></p><p>A group of Alfar whose mindforces leave their stratospheric Alfheimr to visit a forest on land, can conjure a lovely longhouse by a lake where swans gather in the midst of the natural forest. </p><p></p><p>Risar live ‘inside’ a cliff, and they can take humans ‘into the mountain’. Each home of the æsir is a magnificent longhouse, across the sky among the clouds. And so on.</p><p></p><p>The æsir dwell among the clouds. But Asgarðr itself is a place on earth, near Troy, where the æsir sky beings gather for their parliament meetings. It looks like a field on Mount Ida, but if one enters the extradimensional space, one encounters the open-air government site, marked out with clear boundaries, and luxurious structures nearby.</p><p></p><p>Alfheimr is high above the clouds, where also is the longhouse of the jarl of the alfar. The alfar in other regions too gather nearby there for their government meetings.</p><p></p><p>And so on.</p><p></p><p>Essentially, this extradimensional space is the mindscape of a particular nature being. But other nature beings who associate can also visit or inhabit this space. For example. A large boulder is a conscious being. Its mindforce manifests as a particular dvergar. In some sense, this dvergar ‘lives inside’ the boulder. A door can literally open up out of the boulder, and a human can enter this extradimensional space inside the rock of the boulder.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Magnificent Mansion is a convenient way to represent such Norse concepts. The Norse version of Magnificent Mansion tends to be permanent. The mansion is the ‘space’ of a particular natural phenomenon. Thus the door to this mansion can appear at any surface area of this phenomenon. Alternatively, if the mindscape is of a particular field, the entire Mansion might be seen from the outside on this field, which can materialize, or be visible with True Seeing. The extradimensional space is in the mind of this natural phenomenon. It is possible for the mindforces of one natural object to project and to permanently relocate in an other similar natural object. (For example, the mind of one mountain in Norway, traveled with humans across sea, to become the mind of an other similar mountain in Iceland. Think of this as exchanging ‘portfolios’.) So, destroying the natural phenomenon will destroy the Magnificent Mansion, but wont kill its nature being. That said, it is impossible to enter this personal mindscape unless the nature being intentionally opens the door − or accidentally leaves it open. The style of the furnishings of a Magnificent Mansion includes themes relating to the natural phenomenon whose home this is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 7604748, member: 58172"] The D&D spell, [B]Magnificent Mansion[/B], is a useful tool for a DM to represent a Norse or Norse-esque setting. There are many examples of ‘extradimensional spaces’ in Norse beliefs (and in Scandinavian folkbelief too). A dvergar might leave the door open on the side of a hill, where inside the hill is a luxurious home. Entering a burial mound might enter a spooky large multi-level crypt, where undead náir warriors gather around a viking longship floating as if on open waters, and the warrior leader sits on a throne in a longhouse at a lower level entered thru the ship. Transitions from one room of the Magnificent Mansion to an other can be dreamlike. The entire ocean can be the space of a longhouse, whose entrance is on any water surface, perhaps with steps leading down, and where other nature beings can gather. A group of Alfar whose mindforces leave their stratospheric Alfheimr to visit a forest on land, can conjure a lovely longhouse by a lake where swans gather in the midst of the natural forest. Risar live ‘inside’ a cliff, and they can take humans ‘into the mountain’. Each home of the æsir is a magnificent longhouse, across the sky among the clouds. And so on. The æsir dwell among the clouds. But Asgarðr itself is a place on earth, near Troy, where the æsir sky beings gather for their parliament meetings. It looks like a field on Mount Ida, but if one enters the extradimensional space, one encounters the open-air government site, marked out with clear boundaries, and luxurious structures nearby. Alfheimr is high above the clouds, where also is the longhouse of the jarl of the alfar. The alfar in other regions too gather nearby there for their government meetings. And so on. Essentially, this extradimensional space is the mindscape of a particular nature being. But other nature beings who associate can also visit or inhabit this space. For example. A large boulder is a conscious being. Its mindforce manifests as a particular dvergar. In some sense, this dvergar ‘lives inside’ the boulder. A door can literally open up out of the boulder, and a human can enter this extradimensional space inside the rock of the boulder. Magnificent Mansion is a convenient way to represent such Norse concepts. The Norse version of Magnificent Mansion tends to be permanent. The mansion is the ‘space’ of a particular natural phenomenon. Thus the door to this mansion can appear at any surface area of this phenomenon. Alternatively, if the mindscape is of a particular field, the entire Mansion might be seen from the outside on this field, which can materialize, or be visible with True Seeing. The extradimensional space is in the mind of this natural phenomenon. It is possible for the mindforces of one natural object to project and to permanently relocate in an other similar natural object. (For example, the mind of one mountain in Norway, traveled with humans across sea, to become the mind of an other similar mountain in Iceland. Think of this as exchanging ‘portfolios’.) So, destroying the natural phenomenon will destroy the Magnificent Mansion, but wont kill its nature being. That said, it is impossible to enter this personal mindscape unless the nature being intentionally opens the door − or accidentally leaves it open. The style of the furnishings of a Magnificent Mansion includes themes relating to the natural phenomenon whose home this is. [/QUOTE]
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