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<blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 8613266" data-attributes="member: 7015558"><p>I'm fairly certain the Astral Plane and Astral Sea are not distinct bodies; they're just synonyms, or different words describing the same thing.</p><p></p><p>The cosmology seems to me to be laid out like this;</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wildspace is the area closest to Material Place worlds. Old lore was that this is essentially the "space" between planets/moons in the same system. Sounds like this will be about the same.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eventually if you travel out in Wildspace far enough, you leave your system and transition into the Astral Sea. In old lore, the Astral Sea and the Astral Plane are just the same thing, and it seems like that will remain the same.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Travel far enough through the Astral Sea, and you can reach other planes. This was always the case.</li> </ul><p></p><p>The only really big change here, is that the Phlogiston seems to be scrapped and its role subsumed by the Astral Sea. Which I'm glad, never really saw the point of it.</p><p></p><p>The status of Crystal Spheres is a little murkier. I don't think the concept is entirely scrapped as its been mentioned before in lore videos, explaining the status of Eberron for example, but perhaps its name/purpose has changed somewhat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Urriak Uruk, post: 8613266, member: 7015558"] I'm fairly certain the Astral Plane and Astral Sea are not distinct bodies; they're just synonyms, or different words describing the same thing. The cosmology seems to me to be laid out like this; [LIST] [*]Wildspace is the area closest to Material Place worlds. Old lore was that this is essentially the "space" between planets/moons in the same system. Sounds like this will be about the same. [*]Eventually if you travel out in Wildspace far enough, you leave your system and transition into the Astral Sea. In old lore, the Astral Sea and the Astral Plane are just the same thing, and it seems like that will remain the same. [*]Travel far enough through the Astral Sea, and you can reach other planes. This was always the case. [/LIST] The only really big change here, is that the Phlogiston seems to be scrapped and its role subsumed by the Astral Sea. Which I'm glad, never really saw the point of it. The status of Crystal Spheres is a little murkier. I don't think the concept is entirely scrapped as its been mentioned before in lore videos, explaining the status of Eberron for example, but perhaps its name/purpose has changed somewhat. [/QUOTE]
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