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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9394605" data-attributes="member: 58172">This 4e fluidity is still possible in 5e ... when ... the alignment planes and different parts of an alignment plane can appear as a floating island within the 5e Astral Sea. The island is bigger on the inside up close than it is from the outside from a distance. Each &quot;dominion&quot; is an Astral island. A dominion can be any concept, not just an ethical alignment. So there are many unaligned dominions. All related concepts have their islands linking and networking to each other to form massive and complex planes.Because Astral distances are nonphysical and depend on how closely related various concepts are, the concept one is focusing on is what determines how far away an other concept. So the appearance of the Astral Sea is like the results of a search engine prompt. (The spelljammer helm helps sort thru to navigate the peculiar properties of the Astral realm of thought.)Concepts like &quot;world tree&quot;, &quot;world axis&quot;, and so on, are different paradigms to navigate the networks of Astral dominions. Almost any conceptual model is possible. Each model makes some dominions more relevant and others less, and fails to access potentially infinite dominions.The Astral Plane and its Sea is inherently fluid. Any cosmology can be there − it depends on what each mind is looking for. Meanwhile every culture or subculture and its collective organizing paradigms form a Astral dominion. Every point of view exists within the Astral Plane.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9394605, member: 58172"] This 4e fluidity is still possible in 5e ... when ... the alignment planes and different parts of an alignment plane can appear as a floating island within the 5e Astral Sea. The island is bigger on the inside up close than it is from the outside from a distance. Each "dominion" is an Astral island. A dominion can be any concept, not just an ethical alignment. So there are many unaligned dominions. All related concepts have their islands linking and networking to each other to form massive and complex planes. Because Astral distances are nonphysical and depend on how closely related various concepts are, the concept one is focusing on is what determines how far away an other concept. So the appearance of the Astral Sea is like the results of a search engine prompt. (The spelljammer helm helps sort thru to navigate the peculiar properties of the Astral realm of thought.) Concepts like "world tree", "world axis", and so on, are different paradigms to navigate the networks of Astral dominions. Almost any conceptual model is possible. Each model makes some dominions more relevant and others less, and fails to access potentially infinite dominions. The Astral Plane and its Sea is inherently fluid. Any cosmology can be there − it depends on what each mind is looking for. Meanwhile every culture or subculture and its collective organizing paradigms form a Astral dominion. Every point of view exists within the Astral Plane. [/QUOTE]

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