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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5445316" data-attributes="member: 92511">The Creation MythIn the Beginning of Beginnings, before Anything was Anything...there was Ahl.After uncountable eons of existence, Ahl drew forth, from Himself, He who was as Ahl...and He was called Zho.Thus was the sky (Zho) separated from the earth (Ahl).As a gift to His beloved, Ahl created creatures of beauty and power to capture all of the colors of the stars of Zho's sky and the light of Zho's stars. These creatures were the Children of Zho...which Men and Elves would come to call Dragons.In gratitude for His gift, Zho created for Ahl creatures of beauty and power to capture all of the strength of Ahl's earth and all of the facets of Ahl's strength. These creatures were the Children of Ahl...which Men and Elves would come to call Titans.In the fires of the Their passions and the fluids of Their love was born the primordial sea, which called Herself, Ossa.Leaving Ossa to the care of the world, with their Children to aid in its oversight, Ahl and Zho retired behind The Veil to exist in Their Eternity of love and passion. So it was, after untold eons, that Ossa created the Elder Gods to oversee the elements of the world and gave to Them, each, Their Spheres over which to hold sway.And thus began the Divinity of the world of Orea. After untold eons of warring and vice, the Elder gods fell to the "new/young" gods millenia ago and now it is the children of the Elder gods, with a few exceptions, that hold sway over the world of Orea.---------------------That's the mythology.The actual cosmology of Orea is as follows:The Higher Planes exist. Beings of divine Good inhabit them. Define as necessary.The Lower Planes (The Abyss and the 9 Hells) exist. There are numerous devil lords and demon princes all vying for power in their own ways...ALL Abyssal creatures (and most Infernal) hold unquestioned fealty to the Elder god Karos, the Chaosbringer, god of demons.EDIT: or "devil princes and demon lords" what you prefer. Bwahaha.The Astral Plane exists as does the Ethereal. Their role is "normal" for whatever system of play you use. Linking the various planes together.The Elemental Planes exist "next to" the Prime Material Plane of Orea. They exist as the "Inner Planes" as originally detailed in AD&D.The Land of Faerie (a.k.a the Feywild for some players) exists as a demi-plane existing concurrent with the Prime Material. It is the offshoot/result of the demise of the Elder goddess Llyndra, the Green Lady of All that Grows, for Her "children"/creations, the creatures now called "fayekin". The Spirit World (a.k.a. the Grey River, the Grey Lands, the Isle of Desri) where the souls of Orea's departed go, floating down the grey waters to the fork in the River of the Dead. On that island where the river forks, the Elder Goddess Desri sits in judgment of the souls of the dead. Depending on how Her scales tip, you flow down the left fork of the river (to the Higher Planes) or the right fork of the river (to the Lower planes).EDIT: It is a fair assumption that along the banks of the Grey River, up to and including around the Isle of Desri, is what could be defined as the "Shadowfell." A Hades-esqie Purgatory for un-sorted, unwanted or otherwise "stuck" souls...Ghosts, spectres, shadows, and other incorporeal beings could be said to exist, when not in the Prime Orean plane, along the river's banks.As far as "travel"...the easiest to get to from the Prime plane of Orea is the Land of Faerie...on par with the Astral plane.The Ethereal plane is also easily, though much more rarely, accessible. It is generally used to access the Faerie Plane, the "spirit world" (of the dead) or shift among/along the Prime. Basically "phasing" out of Prime reality and re-entering elsewhere. It can sometimes be used to access an elemental plane. But this is speculation on the part of planar travel authorities/sages.From there (astral or ethereal), tapping into one of the Elemental planes is nearest/easiest (i.e. "most documented").Traveling through/along the Astral Plane to get from the Prime to the Higher or Lower Planes is a lengthy and dangerous prospect...and from Orea's Prime, requires entering the Spirit World, a ride down the Grey River and getting past the Isle of Desri in your desired direction.Therein ends, for now, the Cosmology of Orea.--SD</blockquote>

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