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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9574340" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>As I understand the 5e cosmology, one can and does get to and from the Astral Sea and any alignment plane. Whirlpools can portal people back and forth. </p><p></p><p>As I interpret the descriptions so far, various dominions are in each alignment plane, such as Arvandor where Corellon resides, within Chaotic Good Arborea. Many of these dominions have access to the Astral Sea. Within the Sea, these access points appear as floating islands. Debarking onto such an island actually enters the dominion. However, not all island dominions in the Sea are related to a specific alignment. Many floating dominions are their own alignment-neutral concepts. For example, Hestavar is the <strong><em>concept</em></strong>, the ideal, of a magnificent city, and includes inhabitants from various alignments that pertain to what a magnificent city would entail.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I treat the domains and planes as separate regions. They exist as units, defined, informed, and organized by specific concepts.</p><p></p><p>The Axis, Tree, and Wheel, are all equally true. It is like having database. Each dominion is an entry in the information database. I can sort the data alphabetically, by date, be region, etcetera. It is all the same "information". It is me who is choosing how to navigate the information.</p><p></p><p>There is no actual up or down in the Astral Plane, there is no objectively existing space. It is all the way a dream experiences "space". One moment, a person is in the woods, turns around, and is now in a bedroom. This is "portal". So when using the Wheel to navigate the Astral Plane, the direction "upward" connotes "heaven" and "goodness", so that association symbolically organizes where to find the Good ethical semantics.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ah. Yeah, I agree. People together in a group, in a particular Astral dominion, are experiencing it in the same way. </p><p></p><p>But how one navigates to a different dominion somewhere else is a different consideration.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9574340, member: 58172"] As I understand the 5e cosmology, one can and does get to and from the Astral Sea and any alignment plane. Whirlpools can portal people back and forth. As I interpret the descriptions so far, various dominions are in each alignment plane, such as Arvandor where Corellon resides, within Chaotic Good Arborea. Many of these dominions have access to the Astral Sea. Within the Sea, these access points appear as floating islands. Debarking onto such an island actually enters the dominion. However, not all island dominions in the Sea are related to a specific alignment. Many floating dominions are their own alignment-neutral concepts. For example, Hestavar is the [B][I]concept[/I][/B], the ideal, of a magnificent city, and includes inhabitants from various alignments that pertain to what a magnificent city would entail. I treat the domains and planes as separate regions. They exist as units, defined, informed, and organized by specific concepts. The Axis, Tree, and Wheel, are all equally true. It is like having database. Each dominion is an entry in the information database. I can sort the data alphabetically, by date, be region, etcetera. It is all the same "information". It is me who is choosing how to navigate the information. There is no actual up or down in the Astral Plane, there is no objectively existing space. It is all the way a dream experiences "space". One moment, a person is in the woods, turns around, and is now in a bedroom. This is "portal". So when using the Wheel to navigate the Astral Plane, the direction "upward" connotes "heaven" and "goodness", so that association symbolically organizes where to find the Good ethical semantics. Ah. Yeah, I agree. People together in a group, in a particular Astral dominion, are experiencing it in the same way. But how one navigates to a different dominion somewhere else is a different consideration. [/QUOTE]
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