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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Funeris" data-source="post: 2430009" data-attributes="member: 22792">I like Ashy's idea of a new plane...I had a similar thought last night but I decided not to delurk until this morning.  It would have to be an undiscovered if not unconventional plane.  Physically it could just be described as a seemingly infinite land mass composed of gray soil....stretching indefinitely to its horizons.  Perhaps in the northern sky there is a flashing pulse of brilliant energy...positive in nature....where souls are created...as Ashy said.  Conversely, there is a rolling pulse of black energy to the south.  Negatively charged and responsible for decay.You may even have two other forms of "energy" in the west and east.  To the west perhaps objects have unusally sharp edges, as if drawn with a sharpie and a ruler.  The eastern horizon (and any objects out that way) are constantly in motion...arcing, rippling, evolving.  Meanwhile, in the sky, float faint whispy orbs of light...the souls of the planets.  These orbs become more cubic when approaching the western lawful edge of this reality...These souls might have an orbit within this plane, bringing an individual planet-soul alternately toward the forces of life, death, law, and chaos...enforcing a balance that keeps a world alive.  So Halcyon's blade is connected to this plane...a plane that predates the greater gods.  It would obviously be tied to the lawful or western aspect.  The blade could get them there.As for the worms, they were around before the current pantheon.  They would probably know of this place...and maybe can easily get there coming from a time before the current pantheon.  Hell, maybe they used this plane to travel between the different worlds they used to help destroy.How do your characters get here?  Cosmologically it encompasses all of the other planes.  You could access any plane...any world from within its borders.  At the same time, its spaced so that access from the other planes/worlds is denied.  It is AND it is not.  It would be the access hallway in the matrix movies...and you need the right key.  So, do you send 'em searching for a Mcguffin?  Nah.Instead, the worms while passing into this place tear a brief hole in the planar fabric.  They never had to come here before a world died...so it leaves a tear through which the DoD can travel.  This tear doesn't just show up in their world.  It seeps chaotic energy into the lawful planes, lawful energy into the chaotic planes....etc. etc. etc. So, they're dealing not only with the end of Spira....but with the multiverse collapsing upon itself.  Too bad they don't have the Crosser's Maze <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The beauty of the worms opening the metaphysical path for the Defenders is that the Defenders won't be able to get there before the worms.  Once they get there...they'll be tied up with fixing the multiverse...while the worms have already accessed Spira's soul...entered it after perhaps making a deal with it per The One Warlock's idea...and began to reproduce...I dunno though...I could keep expounding on this endlessly though...so I'll just sit back and see if I stirred up any creative juices...[RESUMES LURKER MODE]</blockquote>

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