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<blockquote data-quote="NoBodyFound" data-source="post: 9441977" data-attributes="member: 7044990"><p>I'll add a few points that no one brought so far. </p><p></p><p>1) <strong>OG Quasiplans</strong> were representing "beginning" and "end" states for the elements:</p><p></p><p>Lightning strikes produce oxygen — <em>that's</em> why they are between Positive and Air.</p><p>When vapor condenses rain begins — so Steam is between Positive and Water.</p><p>Fire is ignited with light => Radiance, and minerals when mixed produce rocks => Minerals.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, time grinds Earth to Dust, only Ashes remain from Fire, Salt is left when Water is gone, and Vacuum represents the death of Air as one stops breathing rising higher in the mountains. </p><p></p><p>2) <strong>OG Paraplanes</strong> represent physical, rather than conceptual mixtures. A plane of Ooze and Magma doesn't even need an explanation, Smoke emerges the moment you give an outing to the fire and serves as a kind of chimney to the plane of eternal burning, and Ice is what becomes of water exposed to the winds (perhaps it is a result of cooling that happens during evaporation, or perhaps it's just because winds make you feel cold). </p><p></p><p>3) Now this part is a speculation. </p><p></p><p><strong>OG Elemental Planes</strong> were meant not as fully separate, but as a supplementary space to the Material plane. </p><p>Elementals (in their medieval version) are in charge of the laws of physics. Why do you think fire is burning? That's because Fire elementals make it!</p><p>Now, elemental planes are backrooms behind the stage. It's from here that elementals make the world spin and where they normally live, invisible as a postman.</p><p>They are not separate worlds but spaces within the Material plane that are normally inaccessible to humans — a different perspective or perhaps frequency partially overlapping with the "regular world", like that:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]377509[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>That's</em> why they are called "planes". and when you ship between planes you don't open a hole into the parallel universe, but instead shift yourself </p><p></p><p>Therefore the plane of fire is not merely a place full of fires — it's a place that connects ALL fire on the Material plane into a single plain sheet (and possibly extends much farther than that).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NoBodyFound, post: 9441977, member: 7044990"] I'll add a few points that no one brought so far. 1) [B]OG Quasiplans[/B] were representing "beginning" and "end" states for the elements: Lightning strikes produce oxygen — [I]that's[/I] why they are between Positive and Air. When vapor condenses rain begins — so Steam is between Positive and Water. Fire is ignited with light => Radiance, and minerals when mixed produce rocks => Minerals. On the other hand, time grinds Earth to Dust, only Ashes remain from Fire, Salt is left when Water is gone, and Vacuum represents the death of Air as one stops breathing rising higher in the mountains. 2) [B]OG Paraplanes[/B] represent physical, rather than conceptual mixtures. A plane of Ooze and Magma doesn't even need an explanation, Smoke emerges the moment you give an outing to the fire and serves as a kind of chimney to the plane of eternal burning, and Ice is what becomes of water exposed to the winds (perhaps it is a result of cooling that happens during evaporation, or perhaps it's just because winds make you feel cold). 3) Now this part is a speculation. [B]OG Elemental Planes[/B] were meant not as fully separate, but as a supplementary space to the Material plane. Elementals (in their medieval version) are in charge of the laws of physics. Why do you think fire is burning? That's because Fire elementals make it! Now, elemental planes are backrooms behind the stage. It's from here that elementals make the world spin and where they normally live, invisible as a postman. They are not separate worlds but spaces within the Material plane that are normally inaccessible to humans — a different perspective or perhaps frequency partially overlapping with the "regular world", like that: [ATTACH type="full"]377509[/ATTACH] [I]That's[/I] why they are called "planes". and when you ship between planes you don't open a hole into the parallel universe, but instead shift yourself Therefore the plane of fire is not merely a place full of fires — it's a place that connects ALL fire on the Material plane into a single plain sheet (and possibly extends much farther than that). [/QUOTE]
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