Hriston
Dungeon Master of Middle-earth (He/him)
Here's a sketched map to illustrate the concept:I thought about this some more and didn't make many changes, but I wanted to update what I posted here with something less tentative. So the idea is the elemental planes are arranged in a tetrahedron with the following faces:
(The other inner planes (Material, Feywild, and Shadowfell) would be located inside the tetrahedron).
- Fire
- Air
- Water
- Earth
At the edges of the tetrahedron, where two faces meet, are the following six para-elemental planes:
In addition, at the vertices of the tetrahedron, where three faces meet in a point, are the following four trans-elemental planes (renamed from quasi-elemental because I think it fits what I'm doing better):
- Lightning between 1 and 2,
- Steam between 1 and 3,
- Magma between 1 and 4,
- Mist between 2 and 3,
- Dust between 2 and 4, and
- Mud between 3 and 4.
- Storm where 1, 2, and 3 meet,
- Ash where 1, 2, and 4 meet,
- Volcano where 1, 3, and 4 meet, and
- Frost where 2, 3, and 4 meet.
I'm imagining this is on the inside of the tetrahedron.