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<blockquote data-quote="ukingsken" data-source="post: 4622986" data-attributes="member: 78358">I think the feywild, shadowfell, and other proximate planes are pretty vague and shifting by their very nature.&nbsp;The Elemental Chaos is an obvious no brainer where things shift over seas of pure energy. That itself meshes very well just as written.&nbsp;As for the other three I always felt that both the feywild and shadowfell, were like phoenix said, an &quot;echo&quot; of the real world. In the feywild things are natural, trees are larger, grass is greener, and any structures you find will mostly be in harmony with their surroundings. I always thought it best to think of the shadowfell as a literal shadow of the real world. Like a shadow its darker, you sometimes see things in it and wonder whether or not it was your imagination, and like shadows everyday normal things can take on frightening new shapes and sizes.&nbsp;In both of these mirror-esque realms often times distances can seem distorted and traditionally in any fiction I've read major landmarks (Oceans, large lakes, rivers, and basically whatever is conveniant for story purposes) seem to maintain the same approximate position.&nbsp;The astral sea is like the elemental chaos, its a vast open space of indefinite distances where various realms drift around. You dont navigate so much by direction and landmarks as by feeling and intuition. Using that interpretation I think the astral sea also fits very well into our world as elysium, without any modification. &nbsp;This of course is all opinion, but I will say that I read a lot of fantasy fiction (As I'm sure we all do) and these seem to be common throughout any that have similar realms.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ukingsken, post: 4622986, member: 78358"] I think the feywild, shadowfell, and other proximate planes are pretty vague and shifting by their very nature. The Elemental Chaos is an obvious no brainer where things shift over seas of pure energy. That itself meshes very well just as written. As for the other three I always felt that both the feywild and shadowfell, were like phoenix said, an "echo" of the real world. In the feywild things are natural, trees are larger, grass is greener, and any structures you find will mostly be in harmony with their surroundings. I always thought it best to think of the shadowfell as a literal shadow of the real world. Like a shadow its darker, you sometimes see things in it and wonder whether or not it was your imagination, and like shadows everyday normal things can take on frightening new shapes and sizes. In both of these mirror-esque realms often times distances can seem distorted and traditionally in any fiction I've read major landmarks (Oceans, large lakes, rivers, and basically whatever is conveniant for story purposes) seem to maintain the same approximate position. The astral sea is like the elemental chaos, its a vast open space of indefinite distances where various realms drift around. You dont navigate so much by direction and landmarks as by feeling and intuition. Using that interpretation I think the astral sea also fits very well into our world as elysium, without any modification. This of course is all opinion, but I will say that I read a lot of fantasy fiction (As I'm sure we all do) and these seem to be common throughout any that have similar realms. [/QUOTE]

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