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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 7445457" data-attributes="member: 79428">I was inspired by both Caliban's awesomely detailed cosmology and further reading into various New Age spiritual beliefs to revise my own cosmological model.The Sphere of Foundational Planes - These border each other, as well as every other plane.The Plane of Undying Light - The source of light and radiant energy, but also the home of the Elder Evil known as Ragnorra.The Plane of Endless Night - The source of darkness and necrotic energy, and also the home of the Elder Evil known as Atropus.The Plane of Patient Spirits - The ethereal plane where radiant and necrotic energy compete to fill each animus with vitality.The Sphere of Planes AboveThe Soul Font - A stable portal to the Plane of Undying Light, it is the source of the radiant energy souls are formed from. It is like a sun to the Heavens.The Heavens - The destinations of souls chosen by those gods dwelling here. Mortals who attempt to enter the Heavens without authorization will arrive in whichever Heaven they are destined for, with those not destined for a Heaven instead falling to Limbo. Gods reign supreme in this plane.The Astral Deep - The realm of coherent thought not focused on the divine. It is said that portals to the mindscapes of most conscious beings in the multiverse (other than the gods, of course) are located here, but there is no known way to reliably reach them. Ascended masters of psionic magic are the powers that be here.Limbo - The realm of incoherent thought and purest chaos, those stricken by madness are said to have their mindscapes linked to this plane rather than the Astral Deep. The chaotic energies shorn from the Elemental Planes by the Prime Architect were concentrated here. The slaad lord Ygorl, theirself the dimished shade of Ssendam, lurks within Limbo as its greatest power.The Sphere of Material PlanesThe Sun - An unusual stable portal to both the Plane of Undying Light and the Sea of Fire. No being has ever been known to use this portal (or, at least, to try to without being destroyed). A pure portal to the Undying Light was once located here, from which radiant energy flowed equally to the ancient Astral Sea and the primeval Elemental Chaos. During the Dawn War the gods were able to redirect much of the radiant energy to their own realm, empowering them and weakening the deprived primordials.The Moon - Formed from the elemental earth of the Pillars of Creation and placed to to fulfill a special purpose of watching over the Sphere of Material Planes. The Moon simultaneously exists in the Feywild, the World, and the Shadowfell, though which plane it is most strongly connected to varies. A full moon represents a connection with the Feywild, waxing and waning reveals a primary connection to the world, and a new moon represents a connection to the Shadowfell. The full moon is ruled by the archfey known as the Maiden of the Moon, while the new moon is the domain of a coven of powerful night hags.The Feywild - An echo of the World closer to the Undying Light. The unauthorized apotheosis of the nymph queen Titania to godhood in the Heavens also made this plane closer to Limbo.The World - The axis of the multiverse. It also has an unusually strong connection to the Ethereal Plane; entities such as the godlike nature spirits called the Great Elders sometimes manifest in the Ethereal border of the World.The Shadowfell - An echo of the World closer to the Endless Night. The imperfect apotheosis of the Raven Queen also made this plane closer to the Nine Hells.The Sphere of Elemental PlanesThe Elemental Chaos - An unusual plane that once had far more influence in the multiverse before the end of the Dawn War. It is linked to not only the other Elemental Planes, but also to Limbo and the Underdark. Some primordials are still imprisoned here, but genies and elder elementals now have the most authority.The Sea of Worlds - The Plane of Water. Controlled by the evil archomental Olhydra, yielded by the good archomental Ben Hadar for reasons unknown. The Frostfell, a realm of elemental ice ruled by the archomental Cryonax, is contained within.The Labyrinth Winds - The Plane of Air. Controlled by the good archomental Chan, contested by the evil archomentals Yan-C-Bin and Alu Kahn Sang. A realm of thunder and lightning controlled by the free primordial Ty-h'kadi is contained withinThe Sea of Fire - The Plane of Fire. Controlled by the evil archomental Imix, contested by the good archomental Zaaman Rul. A realm of smoke and ash ruled by the archomental Ehkahk is contained within.The Pillars of Creation - The Plane of Earth. Controlled by the good archomentals Sunnis and Emtemoch, contested by the evil archomental Ogremoch. This plane features the most archomentals, including Bwimb II, Chilimbia, Uzrith, and Crystalle.The Sphere of Planes BelowThe Underdark - An unusual plane connected to the deepest reaches of the World, the Feywild, and the Shadowfell. It is also affected by the cosmic influence of the Pillars of Creation, the Elemental Chaos, the Nine Hells, and the Abyss. The god Torog dwells here, though his son Uguendenk has also been known to intrude.The Nine Hells - Once merely a barrier between the Abyss and the rest of the cosmos, the archangel Ashmodai abandoned his post here, returned to his Heaven and slew the god he was sworn to dutifully serve in a bid to achieve godhood himself. The act transformed Ashmodai into the god of the archdevils and caused the former Heaven to fall here, the Nine Hells, trapping rebellious angels within it to become devils. Ashmodai rules the Hells alongside subordinate archdevils.The Abyss - At the end of the Dawn War a number of primordials fled to a remote region of the Elemental Chaos. The followers of the gods stood watch in case these primordials would surface again, unaware that the godlike elementals' instense desperation to unmake the world would transform them into the first demon lords. Within the Abyss the elements are corrupted by the necrotic influence of the Void; fire gives way to cinders, water to acid, air to miasma, earth to dust, and pure chaos to the Void itself. Because of this a number of archomentals and primordials are also present alongside the demon lords, though they do not control layers of the Abyss.The Void - A stable portal to the Plane of Endless Night that lies just beyond the bottom of the Abyss. A few entities of evil lurk here, somehow avoiding complete annihilation. These include the primordials Entropy and Iktha Lau, the god Zehir, and the archomental Sun Sing.</blockquote>

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