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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9364802" data-attributes="member: 58172">I like the way 4e handles Feywild and Shadowfell, and 5e can lean into it.• Positive Material Plane = Feywild• Negative Material Plane = ShadowfellThese are Fey Crossings and Shadow Crossings respectively.But this is a "local Feywild", not an infinite one. Only where the water exists, and the four elements are in lifegiving harmony are the ethereal forces healing and vibrant. There are patches of Feywild here and there.Much of the planet is swaths of Shadowfell, where life in the soil extinguished utterly.But there is optimism in the new era. Patches of ecologically sustainable water are taking route in places, and even expanding and merging with other patches to form expanses of Feywild.In a 5e sense, much of the planetary ether is still the neutral Ethereal of the Elemental realms. These two are patches here and there, depending on the elements that exist locally in the Material Plane of the planet.The luminous watery insectile Avangion are Epic level Fey beings. Likewise the Dragons are Epic level Shadow beings. Dregoth is actually Undead, albeit his supporters are more transmogrified by Shadow, yet alive. Essentially the Defiling technique is a form of Necromancy. Defiling actually annihilates the Element of Water, analogous to nuclear fission. All Arcanists can destroy Water, to release uncontrolable magical energy (which disrupts the Fey Plane). But only Defilers know a technique to be able to harness and utilize this energy, and they guard this secret technology fiercely. Player characters can have a Background Feat relating to Dregoth to know how to Defile.Obviously, Defiling is now strictly illegal, even a capital offense. But Dregoth continues to transmit the Necromantic technology. There needs ways for a player characters to lean into this option, even while criminal.There are safe ways to use Arcane magic, the Preserver technology. This too is a Background Feat that a player might select.Most characters use the Background Feat for Psionic traits. But some will use it for Martial traits, vocational training, or other cultural heritages.With regard to the Shadowfell:• The Grey = Shadow Border that overlaps and observes the Material Plane• The Black = Deep Shadow distorted beyond the point it disconnects completely from matterThe Shadow Border is a realm of ghosts, and the places are recognizable albeit gloomy and entropic.There are Domains of Dread within the Deep Shadow.There seems insufficient elemental harmony to sustain a Deep Fey yet. But it theoretically can exist. The Avengion, Eladrin, and others populate the patches of Fey here and there. Their Fey crossings are natural places of healing and Positivity.</blockquote>

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