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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agamemnon" data-source="post: 1716780" data-attributes="member: 2567">I use the Great Wheel in FR, partly as a homage to Planescape, and partly because it's an alignment of planes that seems "logical" to me. Questions of cosmological geometry are fairly unlikely to come up in a campaign in the first place, and I can safely work with the assumption that the Faerun cosmology is merely the most widespread theory, and that it is, to put it bluntly, wrong.Of course, the gods of Faerun may or may not be cognizant of this fact. Whether they would tell their faithful is anyone's guess. Maybe they just prefer that mortals deal with questions of life, the universe and everything on their own. They might be benevolent, but won't necessarily offer shortcuts to enlightenment.The way I consider it, there is one Abyss, one Elysium, one stack of Nine Hells. Different worlds see them differently, or not at all. Maybe the people of Oerth, by an amazing lucky chance, got it right. Maybe not. Maybe the Great Wheel is just another illusion nested inside another like a Russian doll.This idea of mine also presumes that material planes can be infinitely large. Maybe one contains galaxies and nebulae of millions of stars while another consists of crystal spheres floating in an ocean of phlogiston. One DEFINITELY contains a world turtle swimming her way through the eternal cosmos, carrying on her back four great elephants and a world shaped very much like a giant pizza.If gods span worlds, they're the same god all over. If someone offs Lolth, Lolth is dead everywhere. That's how I see it, anyway. I quite like the idea of everything rotating around a central hub, and in the eye of that maelstrom, Sigil sits, the City on the Edge of Forever.</blockquote>

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