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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9795306" data-attributes="member: 58172">In D&D 2024, each of the power sources correlates most strongly with two themes. Each of these thematic pairs correlates certain multiversal planes.Primal: Elemental, Fey.Feywild, [Shadowfell], Elemental Planes.Divine: Healing, Astral.Astral Plane, Celestial, Fiend, Aberration.Arcane: Illusion, Ethereal.Ethereal Plane.Psionic: Spacetime, Mind.Personal soul (entangling all multiverse)Martial: Body, Toolset.Personal body (building technologies).Perhaps, the Primal power source especially involves the planar energies of Elemental, Fey, and Shadow, albeit in an animistic way involving the Material Plane. Some areas of the Material world are more rawly elemental, some are vibrant and full of lifeforms (Fey), and some are gloomy and unraveling (Shadow).Divine magic obviously relates to the Astral Plane and its realms of concepts and symbols.Arcane is force magic and objective constructs made out of force, involving the quintessential ether of the Ethereal Plane, especially as it entangles the Material Plane.Possibly, Necromancy could be its own power source. If so, its thematic pair is Fear and Shadow, and its plane is Shadowfell. But I am comfortable with necromancy being the dark side of all the power sources: undead bodies, frightened minds, emptiness, deathliness, destructive patterns. In this sense, the Shadowfell is an aspect of the Material Plane, opposite the Feywild, and an aspect of an animistic afterlife -- whence relating to the Primal power source.The Material Plane is the confluence of every multiversal plane -- an empty nothingness of space that these other planes can fill.</blockquote>

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