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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kweezil" data-source="post: 1511828" data-attributes="member: 681">I'm still working on the planar cosmology for my own world, but I'll tell you what I have and it might spark something for you. It's a little derivative (bits borrowed from WW, bits borrowed from the Great Wheel, bits borrowed from Eberron) but I'm happy with the way it all fits together, and that it fits my world's creation myths and world rules (no alignment etc) much better.At the centre of it all is the material world. Unlike some other worlds, it isn't a sphere orbiting a star. The world is more like a stretched sheet, pinned at the 4 cardinal points by the essential planes (elemental planes of fire, earth, air and water). The closer you go to one of the directions the more elemental it becomes until you slip into the elemental plane. Co-terminus with the material world is the spirit realm, world of the spirits and souls of the world, and where the dead if they resist going to their final judgement (ghost etc). As it mirrors the material, it too seeps into the elemental planes at the cardinal points.Above the world lies the heavens and the sphere of the zodiac, where the stars are placed, and the sun and moons which orbit there, and below is lies the underworld, the utter depths beneath the world where many strange aberrations and things better unnamed reside. The material world can seep into these realms too, hence I can have a nice endless underdark if I want  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Beyond all this is the void, the unformed nothingness that remains after the elder triad crated the world. The void is anathema to existance, though powerful forces can shape it for a time. At the highest point above the world lies the Light, the Positive Energy plane, which feeds life and light into the world along strands of energy known as the Spire, while at the deepest depth lies the Dark, the Negative energy plane, which has its own dark Spire. Incomrehensible entities such as Xeg-Yi and Xag-ya live among the energy streams of the Spires where raw energy touches the void, and where the Spires meet, magic is born.Lastly, orbitting the world are the conceptual planes of War, Nature, Law, Chaos, Passion, etc. Cutting their way through the void, eternally battling with it, they leave minor demiplanes in their wake that are swiftly consumed by the void.Whew. Now to get this all sorted and onto my website. I hope its of some help to you.</blockquote>

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