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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9635950" data-attributes="member: 58172">Above, when I described the Feywild as 'ethereal', I forgot how 5.24 updated the 5.14 descriptions of the 'echo worlds' of Fey and Shadow. The Feywild is fully material, and is no longer a 'spirit world'. Even so, when one looks at the cosmological map, one can see the Feywild and the Material Plane are separated by a zone of raw ether. But now this is more like having the doorway threshold itself be ethereal, but not the destination on the other side of the threshold. The Fey crossings themselves are ethereal during transition, but they are only thresholds. Probably this ethereality is why the mages of the High Elf culture find these thresholds so interesting.Unlike the other planes of the multiverse, Feywild and Shadowfell are alternate realities − not levels of being. Elsewhere the multiverse is a macrocosm of the Human soul. The Material plane is the aura of the body. The Ethereal Plane is the spirit realm where a spirit of a soul can exert influence. For example, the soul of an artist exerts this kind of spiritual influence. The Astral Plane is a mindscape. By contrast, both Feywild and Shadowfell are actually the Material Plane. Shadowfell is various memories of the past. Feywild is various oracles about possible futures.It is possible to understand the past, by going back in time, and visiting a 'memory', namely the actual past events. However interacting with the past within the Shadow doesnt affect the current timeline of the Material Plane proper. In this sense, the Shadow offers an 'alternate' past, contained within itself.Likewise, visits to a possible future are possible in the Feywild. When returning to the Material, awareness of a possible eventuality, can inform a strategy toward success or warn of a possible danger. Hence, the oracles of the Fey 'fates'.Both Fey and Shadow include a timeline that is current with the present of the Material. These present times are the alternate timelines that are 'nearest' to the Material Plane. Activity in the present is an alternate and doesnt impact the present of the Material.Because Fey and Shadow are 'elsewhere', they arent 'spirit worlds' per se. Only the Border Ethereal is the spirit world. It overlaps the Material Plane and is part of the Material. The ghostly ethereal spirits of various speicies roam across the world of matter, observe the creatures of the Material Plane going about their daily business. These spirits of ether can exert a subtle influence on matter (and viseversa), but generally any overt interaction requires magic.In this cosmological context, the ethereal Elves that founded various Ancients Paladin communities are residents of the Ethereal Plane, specifically the Border Ether, and dont reside in the Feywild 'elsewhere'.(My headcanon perceive these ethereal Elves to be the Scottish 'Sith' Elves.)The Elven communties in the Ethereal Plane are known as Sith. They speak the Sylvan language of the Fey dialect. A specific possible future motivated this Elf community to immigrate into the Ethereal Plane in order to teach Humans magic from there via dreams, while observing Human activities. While they are known for their Ancients Paladin oath, there are also many Warlocks among the Sith. Generally the Sith are known for healing, oracles, various magical crafts such as potions and clothing, and spells that make their bodies magically strong.When two ethereal creatures encounter each other within the Ethereal, both of them are subtle forces. They interact with each other as virtual bodies that are as if physically solid.</blockquote>

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