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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roman" data-source="post: 3327538" data-attributes="member: 1845">Once again - superb explanations! I will ask a last set of questions, since I know you guys, and especially Mark Hope, have better things to do than answer my endless streams of questions, but thanks for being patient with me and taking the time to do so thus far! Ok, my last questions: As far as I understand, the Astral Plane of Dark Sun is connected to the Astral Planes of the normal Great Wheel. However, Is the Black/Plane of Shadow connected to the other Planes of Shadow (and thus alternate or other Prime Material Planes) in other cosmologies as suggested by the Manual of the Planes or is it separate? Same question for the Deep Grey - does it connect to Deep Ethereal of other cosmologies? The Deep Grey has now assumed the function of the Negative Energy Plane. What, if anything, has assumed the function of the Positive Energy Plane, or is the Prime Material Plane the source of positive energy? Has the introduction of negative energy into the Deep Grey (and possibly positive energy elsewhere) affected the inner planes - i.e. are there now quasi-elemental planes (or even quasi-para-elemental planes  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )? The sources/nature of supernatural power in Dark Sun appear to be highly morphic - as evidenced by the appearance of arcane magic (discovered by Rajaat... or created by Rajaat, hmm), the appearance and attachment of the vortices to the sorceror kings, then the creation of the Cerulean storm as a source of magic and possibly some other stuff. It seems feasible that in the event of major 'energy coflagrations' due to say artifact usage/destruction or similarily major events, still more/other forms of supernatural power/magic could arise on Athas too - don't you agree? As to the Dregoth Ascending and use of Living Vortices, it is really tempting to read that, but it is listed on <a href="http://www.athas.org" target="_blank">www.athas.org</a> as an adventure, so I will refrain from doing so in the faint hope that I someday get to play Dark Sun again. Hmm, this thread has really awoken the desire in me to play Dark Sun, but unfortunately RPGs are not popular in my country and have a stigma of being childish, so it will probably be many years before I get to play a Dark Sun game. Sigh <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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