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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9796460" data-attributes="member: 58172">Yeah, classes are important building blocks for D&D setting themes and cultures. I think of classes as the fighting styles of a culture, but they also suggest dual-use and noncombat traditions as well.Identifying class themes reveals what the classes of a power source share in common. Like, I wouldnt have guessed that the arcane source emphasizes illusion, but when comparing the classes and contrasting the other power sources, the combo of Illusion and Ethereal is saliently arcane. The sources dont really have a symmetry, but the incidental clusters of themes form a kind of continuum like hues of a spectrum across all of the power sources.In the post above, I explore Fey and Shadow and their relationship to Material and Ethereal.I prefer to think of Elemental Planes as regions of the Material Plane. Water is the arctic icecap (Niflheimr, not to be confused with underworld Niflhel). Fire is the equator (Muspelheimr). Between them is air (Ginnungagap), where watery ice and fiery smoke and sparks entangle each other to fashion earth (Jorð).The nature beings are Elemental: an earthy mountain, a watery lake, etcetera. The magically powerful ones can manifest personal spaces. For example, the ocean invited other nature beings to a banquet in a longhouse deep in the blue sea. In D&D, this is like the ocean casting the spell Mordenkainens Magnificent Mansion, whose contents symbolically portray the elemental themes and whose household includes oneself and nearby nature beings, for others to visit.The Elemental Planes are more like demiplanes populating the Material Plane, but whose entrances are often from the Border Ethereal. Many of these Elemental demiplanes interconnect each other forming a network.Primal power source especially relates to Elemental, Fey, and Shadow. But. These other frequencies are more like visiting the personal homes of nature beings, while the Material Plane is the governmental public meeting place, where all of these nature beings, including humans, form a shared diverse community. All of these nature beings are each others neighbors trying to build constructive relationships. It is this sense of community that includes all of nature that is itself the Primal sacred.</blockquote>

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