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Message: <blockquote data-quote="~Johnny~" data-source="post: 1419573" data-attributes="member: 16493">In response to a much earlier comment:Stone Dog mentioned this already, but I'll add some flavor. Human civilization is relatively "new" in this campaign setting. Older civilizations (like goblins, hobgoblins, elves and giants) have been dealing with these places for a long time, and the names for these planes are probably derived from these languages. So it's internally consistent. But who cares anyway? It's flavor! These people don't speak English, so focusing on the etymology of words doesn't make a lot of sense. You might as well ask that it be called "Main Continent" instead of Khorvaire and "planet" instead of Eberron.Now, something more current:I'm not at all familiar with the Far Realm, but I am familiar with the way Keith Baker created Eberron. He has said that aberrations in Eberron share an origin more defined than "magical experiments gone wrong." Previously, I guessed that they came from the Mourning. But the moment I read about Xoriat, I thought, "So this is how aberrations ended up on Eberron." Given that one aberration (mind flayers) came to Eberron 7,000 years ago from Xoriat, and the comment that aberrations have a common origin, I'm actually 99% certain that this is (part of) Xoriat's role.</blockquote>