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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7341712" data-attributes="member: 12388">Other Worlds that Touch the RealmsCountless other worlds touch the Realms, or have been connected to the Realms in the past. Some ideas about one of these worlds follow.1. A world where the continents float; they bob along like boats in the water, save the water that laps against their shores is no more than a mile deep, and where that mile ends the ocean no longer pushes down, but up. 2. Another mile deeper and the ocean gives way to another surface. This one looks down into the haze and ash-choked clouds that cloak the ravaged crust of the world that the continents were once attached to. 3. Somewhere in the space between the haze and the upside-down ocean, gravity resumes its normal pull downward. The weather in between is a snarl of storms, thunder, boiling heat and worse.4. What creatures lurk on the fractured surface of the Ravaged Crust is something the beings who live on the World Above can only guess at. Only adventurers and the foolhardy attempt to swim the depths of the Two Oceans, or to brave the depths of the continents until they find the place where the world turns on itself, at which point they must climb their way deeper until they emerge and stand on the surface of the World Below.5. What is known about the Ravaged Crust is that it is crisscrossed with open lesions that spew magma, smoke and ash. Heat boils from great lakes of lava. What rain falls on its surface quickly dissipates into steam. Water that does manage to pool will eventually boil away if it is not collected and allowed to cool. 6. Great needle-like spires of black rock jut from the surface of the Ravaged Crust. Some claim these spires are growing, and that if a spire should ever touch a floating continent, then that land mass will become caught and dragged down into the boiling heat. 7. In the world above, there are no polar ice caps. Most people believe the oceans end in the extreme north and south, and that if one travels far enough they may stand on open air at the water's edge, and look down into the World Below as far as the Ravaged Crust, some miles below.8. Whereas the elves on the Realms continent of Faerûn gathered to unleash a continent-wide spell that sundered the face of the continent, and so allowed the elves to shatter the power of the Dragons and Giants that harried them while at the same time creating a homeland far west of Faerûn in the middle of the Trackless See (aka Evermeet), the elves of the world of the floating continents were caught unawares by an equally powerful spell devised and unleashed by their corrupt kin, who were long ago banished into the lightless depths of the World Below. 9. The dark elves on this world dared grasp with their magic the currents of white hot magma that flowed beneath their homes in the earth, and the sent it roiling up through the World Below to the surface to boil and burn and melt their most hated foes. 10. The elves on the World Above were caught unawares, as were the dwarves, orcs, men, and all other races and creatures. That the spell of the dark elves went awry was no surprise to the One Who Watches, for this Overgod knew what the dark elves were attempting was impossible for them to control. As horrific earthquakes tore the world apart and its oceans boiled off into the darkness beyond the sky, The One Who Watches caught up in his grasp the power of all the gods of elves and dark elves alike, and with it cast a great net of magic that caught the continents as they began to separate and float away from the world. 11. The animus that pitted elf against dark elf, and elf-god against dark elf-god, was made into a tangible force that held the continents in place and dragged what remained of the oceans to fill the space in between. 12. All the races and creatures that survived pray to their deities, but the elves and dark elves of this world have no gods that resemble their kind. 13. In the Realms, one may find naturally occurring portals in the depths below the Sea of Fallen Stars that lead to the world where the continents float. Likewise in the waters off of Evermeet. Now all I need is a name for this world. Any ideas, Dear Reader?</blockquote>

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