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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 5981721" data-attributes="member: 52734">There's no Great Wheel, Berks - it's all been a sham by the Guvner's who've been giving the laugh to the Clueless fer years.See, tha' Guvner's been plugging holes in the 'verse ever since they helped the Lady take her little seat of power at the center of it All.  Sigil's the linchpin that's been keeping the 'verse from expanding outta control - all ta tha Lady's benefit.But then some berk stumbled on the Key, an' got locked in the Gatehouse as some bloomin' barmy to keep it all dark.  Somehow, though, that unnamed berk figured it out an' unlocked the Door, in the process blowin' part of Sigil across tha' known planes.With the old doors opened, chaos ensued.  And I don't just mean the Xaosicts threw a party - though they did that too.A forgotten maelstrom opened up in the heart o' tha elemental planes, pulling a corner of each into a swirling maisma of sifting elemental material - the Elemental Chaos they call it now.Then the sea opened wide on the Astral.  Where once tha' outer planes were neat an' orderly, nice an' locked like houses set on a row, they now bounce through an' Astral ocean whose depths aren't even known to the Powers.  And many hidden realms - realms locked down by the closing of the Door - places like the Realm of Madness, now brain-addled berks can sail to their cursed shores or bring their horrors ta the other realms that've been safe from them for untold generations.The opening of the Door also opened portals and such to the Sideways realms - the old worlds the Feywild has thrown its old doors open and the chained down Plane of Shadow has burst its shackles to rise back up as a full-on dark mirror of the Prime known as the Shadowfell.  Then there's the Hallow World, the world inside the Prime's world itself.  The old sun there has roared back to life and the dying civilizations are again on the rise.N' with the return o' those forgotten realms, the Powers that had been locked out of 'em and cast of fer dead in the Astral all went home an' declared themselves rulers - and the fight there's been going on fer some time now.  An' in all this, the Ethereal - she just winked out of existence.  No one knows where she's gone or what 'appened to 'er.  Tha' ghosts that used to haunt it 'ave all moved on to the Shadowfell and the rest seem to 'ave been dropped into the Astral, all acting like there never was an Ethereal at all.As for the clueless primes?  They've gone plum barmy because their old maps of the cogs and wheels of the planes don't tell them anything anymore 'cause the borders 'ave all changed like after some Prime war.An' then there's the Modrons.  Word is, they ain't happy tha' doors been open - if you believe the chant, the Modrons had their hand in locking those doors down ages ago.  If you believe those rattling their bone-boxes, there's another March on the way to get as many of those doors shut as possible.  But without the Key, even they can't close 'em all.</blockquote>

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