D&D General Best Place for Outlands (maybe Sigil)

[Brendan Byrd]

Came across old notes designating Outlands/Spire/Sigil as being the opposite end of the cosmos from the Inner Planes.

IIRC:

Inner <> Ethereal <> Astral <> Outer Plane [eg. Outlands]

Prime <> Astral <> Outer Plane
Prime <> Ethereal <> Inner Plane

Portals/Gates/Conduits bypass all the above.

Might have to scratch or modify that.

Although if the Azothoth black hole was one end/center, the Positive could be the other end/center.

Or Positive and Negative are converging on the singularity…

I enjoy brainstorming, thanks folks.

 

[Marandahir]

I like the Outlands as a sort of extra-reality "Backrooms" of the setting – sort of a liminal space between the Material, the Astral, the other planes, and the Far Realm.

If I was placing it in the Astral itself, I'd argue you should consider regular time passing inside of Sigil, and consider how the rings of Outland work in regards to magic; perhaps the astral timelessness is connected somehow to the planar directionality in the Outlands.