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<blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 8506127" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>I think your (2) is a good distinction because although I think of all the Inner Planes as places that are basically physical in nature, I also think of the ones other than the Material Plane itself (to adopt 5E's terminology) as generally more hostile to mortals. So although you could have communities of essentially mortal creatures in one of these places, like for example elves living in the Feywild, such inhabitation could confer immortality in the case of Feywild elves or a state of undeath in the case of otherwise mortal inhabitants of the Shadowfell. I also think that the primary residents of such places are not mortals but are spirits aligned with either the radiant or necrotic energy that suffuse the Feywild and Shadowfell or, in the case of the Elemental Planes, elemental beings.</p><p></p><p>The physical nature of these planes is also somewhat questionable. In the case of the Material Echoes, I conceive of them as having once been part or made up of parts of the Material Plane that were occulted, i.e. hidden from the mortal world, taking them out of the physical realm into the mental/emotional realm of thoughts and memories. And although the physical nature of the Elemental Planes would seem hard to deny, they also seem to have the mental quality that they are abstractions (pure toward their outer edges) of the physical materials that make up the mortal world(s).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hriston, post: 8506127, member: 6787503"] I think your (2) is a good distinction because although I think of all the Inner Planes as places that are basically physical in nature, I also think of the ones other than the Material Plane itself (to adopt 5E's terminology) as generally more hostile to mortals. So although you could have communities of essentially mortal creatures in one of these places, like for example elves living in the Feywild, such inhabitation could confer immortality in the case of Feywild elves or a state of undeath in the case of otherwise mortal inhabitants of the Shadowfell. I also think that the primary residents of such places are not mortals but are spirits aligned with either the radiant or necrotic energy that suffuse the Feywild and Shadowfell or, in the case of the Elemental Planes, elemental beings. The physical nature of these planes is also somewhat questionable. In the case of the Material Echoes, I conceive of them as having once been part or made up of parts of the Material Plane that were occulted, i.e. hidden from the mortal world, taking them out of the physical realm into the mental/emotional realm of thoughts and memories. And although the physical nature of the Elemental Planes would seem hard to deny, they also seem to have the mental quality that they are abstractions (pure toward their outer edges) of the physical materials that make up the mortal world(s). [/QUOTE]
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