Yaarel
🇮🇱 🇺🇦 He-Mage
In the 2024 DMG, this cosmology map is on page 175, and in the 2024 PH page 345.
For the digital image I googled it from Reddit.
D&D 5E (2024) Feywild technically doesn't mention the Seelie and Unseelie Court
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For the digital image I googled it from Reddit.
Corinnguard
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It's from page 344 in the 2024 PHB. As for those towers that jut into the Positive and Negative planes, I think the Dustman faction in the 2e Planescape setting occupied the four towers jutting into the Negative plane. I didn't know that there were towers that jutted into the Positive Plane.
Yaarel
🇮🇱 🇺🇦 He-Mage
Interestingly, the closest thing that I have seen 1e come to a theory of magic is in the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide (page 40).
"All magic and cleric spells are similar in that the word sounds, when combined into whatever patterns are applicable, are charged with energy from the Positive or Negative Material Plane. When uttered, these sounds cause the release of this energy, which in turn triggers a set reaction."
For 5e, the "Weave" could specify the positive energy pervading the Feywild and oppositely the negative void pervading the Shadowfell. More broadly, the Weave is the positive or negative inherent in anything that impersonally exists.
By contrast, the Psionic (and Primal) power source is personal, relating to the positive or negative aspects of an individual soul.
In any case, the 1e explanation for how magic works refers to a polarity.
"All magic and cleric spells are similar in that the word sounds, when combined into whatever patterns are applicable, are charged with energy from the Positive or Negative Material Plane. When uttered, these sounds cause the release of this energy, which in turn triggers a set reaction."
For 5e, the "Weave" could specify the positive energy pervading the Feywild and oppositely the negative void pervading the Shadowfell. More broadly, the Weave is the positive or negative inherent in anything that impersonally exists.
By contrast, the Psionic (and Primal) power source is personal, relating to the positive or negative aspects of an individual soul.
In any case, the 1e explanation for how magic works refers to a polarity.
Yaarel
🇮🇱 🇺🇦 He-Mage
In AD&D 1e, the "Positive Material" Plane and the "Negative Material" Plane are aspects of the Inner Planes, and inside the ring of Elemental Planes.
These immanent Positive and Negative correspond to the 5e 2024 material Feywild and Shadowfell.
The 1e diagram seems to imply that Air is more positive and Earth is more negative. However, the 5e 2024 map clarifies, each element is equally positive and negative.
Similarly, 3e views Positive and Negative as if a kind of fifth and sixth elements, within the Inner Planes. Here from the 3e Manual of the Planes, the as-if six elements orbit around the central circle of the Material Plane that also includes ethereal and illusory ("shadow").
4e remixed Positive, Ethereal, Shadow, and Negative, to form Feywild and Shadowfell. 4e lacked an Ethereal Plane.
5e 2014 kept Fey and Shadow, but then also returned the Ethereal Plane. Both Fey and Shadow have the illusion properties of the former Shadow Plane. 5e also added a Positive and Negative around all that exists, including the Wheel of alignment planes.
In sum, the 5e 2024 Feywild includes aspects of Positive and illusion, but is an alternate Material Plane.
These immanent Positive and Negative correspond to the 5e 2024 material Feywild and Shadowfell.
The 1e diagram seems to imply that Air is more positive and Earth is more negative. However, the 5e 2024 map clarifies, each element is equally positive and negative.
Similarly, 3e views Positive and Negative as if a kind of fifth and sixth elements, within the Inner Planes. Here from the 3e Manual of the Planes, the as-if six elements orbit around the central circle of the Material Plane that also includes ethereal and illusory ("shadow").
4e remixed Positive, Ethereal, Shadow, and Negative, to form Feywild and Shadowfell. 4e lacked an Ethereal Plane.
5e 2014 kept Fey and Shadow, but then also returned the Ethereal Plane. Both Fey and Shadow have the illusion properties of the former Shadow Plane. 5e also added a Positive and Negative around all that exists, including the Wheel of alignment planes.
In sum, the 5e 2024 Feywild includes aspects of Positive and illusion, but is an alternate Material Plane.
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