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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7424562" data-attributes="member: 37579">Funny thing...I've never met anyone in the real world who has ever been to Heaven or Hell. Someone who has journeyed to the afterlife and back. And unlike a D&amp;D world, we have no idea if those places are even real.And yet we still know a lot about the layout of heaven and hell, with lots of depictions in art and lore. Even if you never plan on having a campaign set in the planes, it can be useful to have an idea of the cosmology for use in descriptions of temples and holy sites as well as the iconography of the world. If using the Great Wheel, many churches would have wheel motifs in the art, or show depictions of four or five afterlives arranged in a circle. Circles would be a common symbol in arcane lore and general theology, perhaps being a generic holy symbol. The image of a semicircle (curved side up) could be a general icon of goodness.But, in contrast, if the planes are great spheres floating in the Astral Seal then depictions would be a number of circles. Like a constellation of stars. Which leads you done a descriptive rabbit hole of different constellation of planes based on theme or alignment, or astrology not based on the starts but the planes. (Which gets into an Eberron-like idea of planes waxing and waning in influence.)If the the Astral Plane were not a great sea but a number of flowing channels, the planes could be represented more like a vast spiderweb with the intersections each being a new plane. Spiders might be respected by most religions and web designs could be found in more religious iconography.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7424562, member: 37579"] Funny thing... I've never met anyone in the real world who has ever been to Heaven or Hell. Someone who has journeyed to the afterlife and back. And unlike a D&D world, we have no idea if those places are even real. And yet we still know a lot about the layout of heaven and hell, with lots of depictions in art and lore. Even if you never plan on having a campaign set in the planes, it can be useful to have an idea of the cosmology for use in descriptions of temples and holy sites as well as the iconography of the world. If using the Great Wheel, many churches would have wheel motifs in the art, or show depictions of four or five afterlives arranged in a circle. Circles would be a common symbol in arcane lore and general theology, perhaps being a generic holy symbol. The image of a semicircle (curved side up) could be a general icon of goodness. But, in contrast, if the planes are great spheres floating in the Astral Seal then depictions would be a number of circles. Like a constellation of stars. Which leads you done a descriptive rabbit hole of different constellation of planes based on theme or alignment, or astrology not based on the starts but the planes. (Which gets into an Eberron-like idea of planes waxing and waning in influence.) If the the Astral Plane were not a great sea but a number of flowing channels, the planes could be represented more like a vast spiderweb with the intersections each being a new plane. Spiders might be respected by most religions and web designs could be found in more religious iconography. [/QUOTE]

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