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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gyor" data-source="post: 6474449" data-attributes="member: 6670153">Actually in that book I thought it was pretty clear that within the realms there was completing theories with no one having a definitive answer. As for the Border Elemental Planes, they're simular to the Elemental Chaos in that they are survivable without magic, but they are far more stable and ordered then the Elemental Choas, Choas is a big part of the Elemental Chaos which is not present in the same way in the Border Elemental Plane. While thier are a mix of elements in the border regions, its predominately one element over the others, and elements don't transmute from one to the other like in the Elemental Chaos. A cinder desert in the Plane of Fire one day is going to be a Cinder Desert the next day, in the Elemental Chaos that desert could turn to a Solid Gold that some how rains upwards, and when that rain hits a certain point it explodes into fire. The day after it could turn into pure smoke with a hurricane at the Centre.  The Elemental Chaos is the love child of Limbo/Abyss and the Elemental Planes where as the Border Elemental Regions are the love child of the Feywild and Shadowfell with the Elemental Planes, and the Deep Elemental Planes are the original Elemental Planes.  Also you won't find Earth Elementals in the Border Plane of Air, almost never unless summoned by magic, you'd rarely find them in the border region of the Plane of Earth, although occasionally, thier main habitat is in the Deep Reaches of the Plane of Earth, and to a lesser extent the Elemental Chaos, although Hybrid Elementals are more common then pure elementals in the Elemental Chaos. As for Story hooks, the conflicts between Genies races and other more human like elemental races as well as the riches of the elemental planes are a good start. For the Deeper Elemental Region, you have the politics of Pure Elementals and other more alien Elemental creatures as well as the Elemental Princes, and the search for the Purest forms of an Element, and in the Elemental Chaos, you have hybrid Elementals, Primdorials, Interelemental conflicts and wars between pure elementals, and possibly colonies from Limbo based races like the Githzerai and the Slaads who find the Elemental Chaos compatible with thier experiences of Limbo, if more physical then spiritual. On a side note I also liked the Domains of Dread remaining in the Shadowfell, but I would have liked a feywild eqivilant, but not a prison so much as a manifestation of an archfeys nature in thier home, Fey Denses basically. Perhaps that can be added in a future Manual of the Planes.  PS I'm really looking forward to a manual of the Planes and to see how FR and Ebberon handle the planes.</blockquote>

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