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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6359091" data-attributes="member: 996">Before that, the implication was that each D&D world was an alternate plane on the Prime Material, and the Prime Material had an infinite number of such planes. The 'Astral Dominions' weren't planets (they didn't orbit suns for instance), and were accessed from 'color veils' floating in the Astral Sea, and surrounded by peripheral islands of reality.  They could be theoretically infinite, like a plane of existence, or quite finite.  "The World," inhabited by natural creatures (and primal spirits) native to it, isn't necessarily a planet, either, and, as in the olden days, there are may alternate worlds - but, to mirror them, only one Feywild and Shadowfell.  That's given as one reason that going to the Feywild can lead to apparent time-travel, because you come out in a different World.It was really all very fuzzy.  It'd be very easy to conceive of the Astral Sea and Dominions as the Astral Plane and Outer Planes.  The Outer Planes are just more organized, while Dominions kind of float around.Oh, and the 'Sea' aspect of the Astral Sea is defined by this vague mist or dust that forms an apparent surface & horizon.  It's the dust from the destruction of 'The Lattice of Heaven" which once connected all the Dominions before being destroyed in the Dawn War, and which some of the Gods hope to someday re-build.  It's easy to imagine that the Lattice /was/ the Great Wheel, or that the Great Wheel is the replacement for the Lattice that the Gods eventually created.</blockquote>

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