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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 3327071" data-attributes="member: 8461">In 2E, the crystal sphere containing Athas, its moons, sun, etc. was notably different from others in terms of its planar connections.2E had the Ethereal Plane being the linking plane between the Inner Planes and the Prime Material Plane. The Ethereal Plane itself was called the Deep Ethereal, and where it touched other planes was called the Border Ethereal; all demiplanes existed in the Deep Ethereal (remember that in 2E, Shadow was a demiplane). And of course, the Astral Plane was the linking plane between the Prime Material Plane and the Outer Planes.Athas's crystal sphere had no Border Ethereal; the Grey was there instead. The Grey made it incredibly difficult to reach the Astral Plane (95% chance of failure), and somewhat difficult to reach the Ethereal Plane (and the elemental planes beyond them; 65% chance of failure). Only major artifacts or psionic enchantments (epic spells, basically) didn't suffer these failure chances to get through. And of course, Athas's crystal sphere was incredibly distant from the more familiar ones, and was impenetrable in any case. The Black was, like the Grey, a different planar area within the crystal sphere itself, and Rajaat's prison (the Hollow) was contained within the Black.Virtually all of this information can be found in Defilers and Preservers: The Wizards of Athas and The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook, though it's not much more than what I listed above.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 3327071, member: 8461"] In 2E, the crystal sphere containing Athas, its moons, sun, etc. was notably different from others in terms of its planar connections. 2E had the Ethereal Plane being the linking plane between the Inner Planes and the Prime Material Plane. The Ethereal Plane itself was called the Deep Ethereal, and where it touched other planes was called the Border Ethereal; all demiplanes existed in the Deep Ethereal (remember that in 2E, Shadow was a demiplane). And of course, the Astral Plane was the linking plane between the Prime Material Plane and the Outer Planes. Athas's crystal sphere had no Border Ethereal; the Grey was there instead. The Grey made it incredibly difficult to reach the Astral Plane (95% chance of failure), and somewhat difficult to reach the Ethereal Plane (and the elemental planes beyond them; 65% chance of failure). Only major artifacts or psionic enchantments (epic spells, basically) didn't suffer these failure chances to get through. And of course, Athas's crystal sphere was incredibly distant from the more familiar ones, and was impenetrable in any case. The Black was, like the Grey, a different planar area within the crystal sphere itself, and Rajaat's prison (the Hollow) was contained within the Black. Virtually all of this information can be found in [i]Defilers and Preservers: The Wizards of Athas[/i] and [i]The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook[/i], though it's not much more than what I listed above. [/QUOTE]

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